When I was 15 or 16, it happened to be in the 1970s, and I was working in a production team. At that time, meat was rarely eaten, sometimes only once a month or two. The production team kills a pig, and each population can only get six or seven taels of pork according to population distribution. Fat meat is used as cooking oil, and the rest is bones and pigskin. I use kelp to make soup, but every family can't eat two pieces of meat, sometimes less than once a month.
Pig fat is used as oil. Put it in the pot when cooking. After several turns, the bottom of the pot was a little wet, so I fished it out and put it in the oil tank. For cooking next time. A few days later, the pork was a little cooked. When I was eating, I secretly took a few pieces of oil residue from the oil tank while my mother didn't see it. It was delicious. A few days later, my mother said that the lard in the tank had not been eaten for a month, and it was gone. This kind of pig fat is really not durable.
Now that life has improved, no one wants pig fat. Everyone will buy ribs when they go to the market. When we have a good time, everyone thinks that pork is not sweet, fragrant or delicious. They think that pork raised as feed is not a free-range natural black pig. I have always thought that the reason for eating too much pork now.
In ancient times, it was difficult for ordinary people to eat meat, not just ordinary people, even in the late Qing Dynasty, it was not easy for urban residents to eat meat.
According to the academic paper "Study on Huizhou Diet in Ming and Qing Dynasties", it can be found that even in Huizhou, which was relatively rich in Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a very extravagant thing for small landlords to eat meat, let alone middle-class yeomen.
According to historical records, even in a rich family, Huizhou has only one meat dish a day. "In a rich family, the eclipse will only last for a while."
Moreover, the whole city can only buy a few pigs a day. "There are only a few pigs in the city, and the countryside is particularly frugal. Sheep are only used for big sacrifices, chickens don't sacrifice to first-time guests, eaters are scarce, and geese and ducks don't cook. "
Some people say that ancient people just wanted to eat meat and go hunting, which is really too much.
In fact, the ferocity of wild animals in ancient times was much worse than today, not to mention that in ancient times, even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, tigers ate people. 1952, Leiyang county, Hunan province 120 people were killed by tigers and thousands of livestock were injured. Among them, the tiger ate 32 people a day.
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the population of Sichuan dropped sharply, which was also a disaster caused by tigers. Some tigers run to the county government hall to eat people in broad daylight.
So it is almost impossible for hunters not to go hunting in the mountains. Even hunters are afraid of meeting wild animals.
Some people may say, can't I hunt near the city or village?
Sure, but if rabbits and pheasants are everywhere around the city or village, it means that this place is vast and sparsely populated, so it may not only be rabbits and pheasants, but also tigers and wolves. If it is a densely populated place, you can only go to the mountains if you want to hunt, otherwise it is easy to meet tigers.
In fact, according to Hong Mai's "Jane Yizhi" in the Song Dynasty, there were indeed many people in rural areas and around cities in the Northern Song Dynasty who opened buns shops like Sun Erniang's.
It can be seen that at least in the Northern Song Dynasty, killing people was better than hunting.
Not to mention ordinary people, it is not so easy for soldiers of the ancient dynasty army to eat meat in normal combat.
The article "Meat Consumption of Border Guards Seen in Han Bamboo Slips" points out that according to the study of unearthed Han bamboo slips, the main food of the border guards in Han Dynasty was millet, and meat was mainly used for offering sacrifices and entertaining past officials and imperial envoys. Border guards and soldiers have to pay for meat themselves.
However, according to the study of bamboo slips, it is found that soldiers in the Han Dynasty are reluctant to spend money on meat, and they can only eat meat for free three times a year, that is, when they sacrifice three times a year.
So Dunhuang Han bamboo slips recorded a complaint from the border guards of the Han Dynasty at that time:
The border guards all think that eating meat is a luxury and dare not think about it at all; Not to mention ordinary people.
Nowadays, it is easy for ordinary people to eat meat, and batch animal breeding can meet the demand. Today, the scale of human eating meat is quite large. According to 1 statistics, the average person in the world slaughters 8 animals every year. In other words, most people can eat meat with an open stomach.
In ancient times, it was not easy for ordinary people to eat meat unless you lived in a family that was either rich or expensive. Therefore, "killing chickens and slaughtering sheep" was an important event of 1 in ancient times, which was usually fixed at festivals, sacrifices or wedding banquets. Of course, I have money in my pocket and can go to the pub for dinner at any time.
How difficult was it to eat meat in ancient times? The reason is that there are not so many meat sources. On the one hand, there are not so many animals available in the wild, and even if there are, they can't be eaten, and they will be eaten up soon. On the other hand, most domestic animals supplement their families, either to help their owners grow a variety of food or to sell money, which the poor simply can't bear to eat.
It was difficult for the ancients to eat meat, and there is another circumstantial evidence, that is, the evolution of dogs. Today's dogs, their ancestors were a group of dogs with genetic mutations 7000 years ago, and these dogs evolved the function of digesting starch. In other words, dogs can survive by eating food, so as to better live with human beings in an agricultural society.
Now anthropologists have measured the Google of 9477 Europeans, who lived from 1 century to18th century. The conclusion is that 1700 European height has not increased. Perhaps, we are more impressed by "Little Japan". They used to be famous for their short stature, which was inseparable from the vegetarianism of ancient Japanese.
Let's look at the data of 1 again. In modern times, 1920, the average person in North China eats less than 300 grams of meat every year. Only at Chinese New Year or wedding banquets can ordinary people eat meat. At that time, the richest Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, meat consumption is not high, with an average of 3 kilograms per person per year.
With the rise of human industry, "fertilizer popularization" appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, and more grain output was realized. It is precisely because of the surplus grain that humans use part of it as animal feed to raise more animals.
With more animals, there will be more meat sources in the market, and the cost for ordinary people to eat meat will be less. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to eat meat now, and there is no longer the entanglement of "no meat and no joy". Even, many people should control eating more meat, which is bad for their health. Maybe we should prove the truth that "extremes meet".
In a word, modern people are happy to eat meat, far better than the ancients expected to eat meat one day. The reason is that the ancient people's production efficiency is low, and livestock are more agricultural helpers or economic animals, and they are reluctant to eat at ordinary times. With the widespread use of chemical fertilizers, modern people use grains to raise more captive animals, so it is no longer difficult for people to eat meat.
Not to mention ancient times, it was difficult to eat meat in the countryside in the 1980s, but once a week is good in my memory, mostly vegetables in the garden.
In ancient times, eating meat was easy and varied. Our ancestors, the ape-man in China, ate meat raw and cooked, and gave birth to thousands of Chinese descendants in Qian Qian. On the contrary, modern people eat a single meat, and animals, fish and shrimp grow naturally. Due to the destruction of natural ecology, water and gas deteriorate, which is unnatural. The old feeding method was changed to catalytic speed, the benefit was improved, and the problems followed. Some so-called smart people didn't eat their own chicken, duck and fish, and all of them were dedicated to consumers. When consumers understand, they dare not eat more, which makes people nervous. If they eat too much, they will accumulate viruses and even cause incurable diseases (called cancer by western medicine) and die.
In fact, in ancient times, eating meat was not difficult. Tell some brothers to pick up that guy and run around the mountain. Why can't we find delicacies? Unlike now, animals are always protected by the state. What do you dare to eat besides pork, beef and mutton? In primitive society, men were responsible for hunting. Would you still say that it was difficult for ancient people to eat meat? People eat better than us, pure wild and natural. Look at what meat they eat today, garbage pigs, fast-growing chickens and lean meat. Eating real meat is much more difficult than the ancients.
How difficult do you think it is to eat meat when hunting in the north and fishing in the south?
Look at social productive forces. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, people still had a rare tooth sacrifice. Ordinary people don't have that much money to eat meat every day.
The price of meat in Ming Dynasty was very high. During the Wanli period, a catty of pork was 60 yuan. It's more expensive than what we eat now (but people are original ecological green pork. ) more expensive, more expensive. And at that time, there were no chemicals to promote growth. It takes years to eat a big pig. Plus salt and other spices are expensive, who will buy pork with the money saved for his wife? [dog head]
Back in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, officials could eat meat, but it was terrible! After the Spring Festival, people are lucky to eat meat.
We want to eat meat now and can kill it at any time. But the ancient dynasties were governed by law. Slaughter at will and be invited to the cell for tea. But fish and dog meat are edible.
In ancient times, salt was unpalatable and meat was unpalatable?
When I was a child, I bought meat with tickets. Bought fat, refined oil, and left some oil. Sprinkle some salt, even if I eat meat, [covering my face]