Eating honey from wild bees was of course widespread in all places where the ancestors of the humans and then the humans found wild bees.
On the other hand, the domestication of the bees seems to have happened only in Egypt, a few thousands years ago, and then it has spread from there into Europe and Asia.
So it should have reached China after passing through some Indo-Iranian populations.
Wow, I actually didn't know that, it will probably do well as a separate HN post if anyone finds a good source for it. I actually thought that beekeeping was a thing across most of Eurasia of ancient times.
> Either way, I'd be cautious and skeptical about all those supposed linguistic links.
I'm in the same boat, especially when talking about peoples and languages so far apart from one another.