The king regards the people as heaven, and the people regard food as heaven.
From ancient times to the present, my country has attached great importance to food, so the saying "food is the most important thing for people". Because of this, in the evolution over the past thousand years, the eight major cuisines and various special snacks have gradually formed.
The emergence of these delicacies and cuisines represent the people's attitude towards food.
Nowadays, barbecue, hot pot, and barbecue have become the spiritual food for many young people nowadays. These types of things are not the real staple food, but those things have become a craze.
This largely shows that in today's society, staple food has fully met people's normal physiological needs. According to Maslow's theory of demand structure, we are already pursuing spiritual needs.
And in the current costume dramas, many scenes about banquets will be filled with Manchu and Han banquets. Those classical delicacies with colors, fragrance and taste make people feel that the taste and exquisiteness are no less than the current level.
even makes some dishes almost lost with extremely tedious processes and accumulated thousand years of cooking skills.
In this way, the ancients seemed to have more delicious food than modern people, but that only exists at banquets of rich people or royal families.
What do poor people eat every day? Don’t be fooled by TV series. If you travel through time, you may not be able to support it for a day.
The food of the poor in ancient times
"The rich and the wine and meat smell bad, and the road is frozen to death." This is the description of the gap between the rich and the poor in the late Tang Dynasty by Du Fu.
You should know that Tang Dynasty was among the many dynasties in my country's feudal history, and its prosperity ranks first. Unexpectedly, in the end, there were such a sad thing.
It can be imagined that in those dynasties that were not prosperous and the war-torn times, countless people starved to death. Even if they could eat something, what could they eat?
The hardworking and wise ancient people cultivated rice, millet, sorghum, wheat and beans, commonly known as grains and grains.
However, these grains have high requirements for the planting environment, and in ancient times, drought and flood occurred frequently, and the production technology was low, the already precarious grain seedlings were directly destroyed, resulting in the people who had worked hard for a whole year without harvest.
Therefore, almost every dynasty will be in a famine era. Even if there is no natural disaster, it is difficult to harvest, but many people’s fertile land is rented for landlords, and most of the food they come out needs to be paid to the landlords.
The country still has taxes, and the remaining small part of the grain has to be handed over to the country, leaving only a little bit for itself.
. Many poor families choose to have more children to increase their labor force, so the remaining food is not enough to support the entire family.
Some farmers who can afford poultry can only eat a bite of meat during the New Year or on the happy days. Even the eggs we can see everywhere are precious nutritional supplements at that time.
So, in addition to grains, there are only two mainstream foods left to fill your stomach.
is wild vegetables, which tastes bitter and astringent, and is difficult to swallow. However, in some poorer places, even wild vegetables have become food that the people are scrambling to grab.
The second is Guanyin earth , which is a kind of soil used to burn kilns. The squid is delicate and tastes very similar to white flour. It will feel full when eaten. , but it is soil after all, and eating is not conducive to human digestion. If you eat too much, it will cause intestinal problems.
However, in the Ming Dynasty and the 1820s, there were potatoes and cassava , which had strong growth ability and could become staple foods, which was introduced to our country, alleviating the tragic situation of the famine era to a certain extent.
How does it taste
Most of the poor in ancient times did not eat in the famine or war years, but they could still eat some in the more prosperous era. Although they often couldn't eat, this was also a happier life for them.
What can
make the taste under the conditions of food?
Nowadays, oyster sauce, MSG and other seasonings are not available in ancient times. Even the salt extracted a thousand years ago was precious at that time.
salt is the business of the government, and the manufacturing, transportation, and procurement can only be handled by the government. In order to control this industry, there is a crime in the law that is private salt. If private salt is sold, it can be sentenced to death.
shows how precious salt was at that time. There is also a saying among the people that three tannes of rice per kilogram of salt. Many times, poor people can’t afford to eat rice, so how could they change salt?
even the most basic salt, so I can only taste the taste of the food itself. Today, the catering industry with many seasonings and rich tastes, I am afraid no one would try the food of the poor in ancient times.
Another seasoning that can greatly enhance the flavor is pepper and pepper. It is a seasoning for royal families and princes and nobles. For a while, the value of pepper is even comparable to gold.
Therefore, poor people can hardly eat such seasonings. If they have cooking conditions at home, they can only increase the taste of the food through various cooking methods.
Although, in ancient times, peppers were planted in large quantities. When cooking, add some peppers to increase the layering of the taste. Chili peppers have now become an indispensable flavor enhancer in many places in my country.
It seems that it is not difficult to swallow with chili peppers, but chili peppers were introduced to our country in the late Ming Dynasty. Before the Ming Dynasty, people could not even use chili peppers as seasonings. Most of them ate unflavorable food.
How many days can I last for
?
mentioned above that most of the poor in ancient times were unable to eat. Even when there was enough food, they could not afford flavoring agents that could enhance flavor. At that time, there was not enough meat to supplement nutrition.
Many poor people may only be able to get along with the meat during the Chinese New Year.
Nowadays, the people of our country have white rice, strong flour noodles as their staple food every day, and dishes stir-fried with hot oil. They are added with various seasonings, making them extremely delicious, and even the precious meat has become ordinary food.
In addition to staple foods and dishes, there are also a series of complementary foods, such as barbecue, hot pot and various exquisite snacks mentioned above. The emergence of these foods makes our appetite not only to fill our stomachs, but to eat happily.
It can be seen that the food has now made a qualitative leap.
Due to the nature of people, it is difficult to remember the sweetness and bitterness. The ancient delicacies in our impression have been beautified. Those seemingly rich foods have never appeared in most people's lives.
So with the picky taste buds that are now, back to ancient times, and tasting those tasteless foods will be mad, and many people may not be able to hold on for a day when they go back.
Conclusion
Those Manchu and Han banquets that only appear in the royal family and princes and nobles can now be partially restored in the homes of most people. The diet has exceeded the needs of the physiological level and is very perfect.
But it is all because we are in a strong country, but there is still an extremely poor country now. We live by eating the soil that our ancestors ate, so we must not waste food and cherish our existing life.
