On this cold winter day, it must be a great feeling to make a hot pot and eat a lamb. Or, the next pot of pork dumplings, dipped in a little vinegar sauce, the taste is also excellent. For modern people, if there is no meat in a meal, the taste of the meal seems to become much fainter. After all, the taste and taste of this meat is definitely more enjoyable than eating vegetables. Moreover, in modern society, the types of meat are also diverse, only you can't think of it, there is nothing you can't eat.
From the perspective of foodies, the standard of living of modern people is still much higher than that of ancient people, because some meats that can be eaten in modern times are not allowed to be eaten casually in ancient times, such as beef. In this way, you may find a problem, that is, in many small talk or film and television dramas, those who walk with the wind, often to an inn or restaurant will say to the shop small two: come to two pounds of beef! So, why can these heroes eat beef casually in ancient times?
Chinese history of eating meat can be described as a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age more than 7,000 years ago, the residents of Hemudu, who lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, began to raise animals, such as sheep and deer, and the final direction of this animal was naturally their table. With the passage of time, in the period of the feudal dynasty, the common people raised more and more animal types, namely horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, dogs, and pigs. From this ranking, we can actually see a problem, that is, ancient domestic animals were also hierarchical.
For example, horses, in ancient times, horses were to go to the battlefield, and the cost of raising horses was also very high, so ordinary people could not afford to raise them, let alone eat horse meat. Another example is cattle, which also had a high social status in ancient times. China, since ancient times, has been an agricultural country, the importance of cultivating cattle is naturally needless to say, in ancient times, there were even legal provisions clearly stipulating that "princes do not kill cattle for no reason.". This sentence is enough to see how valuable cattle were in ancient society.
So, why do many heroes still eat beef? Is it because these heroes don't farm, so they don't know the importance of cattle? This is not the case. Everyone knows that the heroes eat beef, most of them through film and television works or novels, especially in "Water Margin", those good men of Liangshan are eating several pounds and several pounds of beef at every turn, and the reason why these good men of Liangshan eat beef in such a large amount is actually for a reason.
First of all, the good man of Liangshan was an anti-thief at that time, so he deliberately wanted to oppose the imperial court. In the novel, most of these good men of Liangshan are forced to go to Liangshan for one reason or another. Then, since he became an anti-thief, he naturally would not obey the laws of the imperial court at that time. Moreover, a group of heroes eat together, and ordering beef is more in line with the identity of these people. Imagine if three or five big men said to the shop boy two: little two! Give us a pig's head! How disillusioned that scene was!
Secondly, it is precisely because of the high social status and social value of cattle that heroes are more willing to eat beef. In ancient times, cattle had to make their own efforts in agriculture, although there were also cattle that died of old age or accidents, but such a amount of beef was not large. The reason why the heroes are arranged to eat beef is to reflect the higher social status of the characters through eating, just like in ancient times, only the emperor could wear yellow clothes. At the same time, such a plot arrangement is also to reflect the independent characteristics of those heroes through eating.
In this way, in fact, in real history, the phenomenon of those heroes eating beef in ancient times is not common, because for normal people, life is always more important than eating! Even if these heroes dare to eat and have money to eat, there is not so much beef to sell! Those hotel owners did not dare to confront the imperial court at that time. In this way, the material standard of living of modern people is higher. After all, for modern people, as long as you want to eat beef, you can always have a plate!