History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
In modern times, people's living standards are getting higher and higher. This is related to the rapid development of the economy and the increasingly advanced agricultural technology. It's hard for people to go hungry. However, in the past, people's living standards were completely different from today's, agricultural technology was not developed, natural disasters were frequent, and the phenomenon of "famine" often occurred.
Emperor Hui of Jin: Why not eat minced meat?
One year there was a famine, and the people had no food to eat, only to dig up grass roots and eat tree bark, and many people starved to death. The news was quickly reported to the palace, and Emperor Hui of Jin sat on a high throne and listened to the minister's report, and was greatly puzzled.
The "kind" Emperor Hui of Jin wanted to do something for his people, and after much deliberation, he finally realized a "solution": "The people are hungry without corn, why not eat meat?" "The people are hungry and have no rice to eat, so why not eat porridge?"
Famines in ancient times were mainly caused by natural disasters, such as droughts, severe winters, locust plagues, and possibly survived through grains that were difficult to cultivate. As a result, people in famine areas are very miserable. They had to eat everything, weeds, bark, Guanyin soil, even surprising.
In fact, most of these disasters occurred in the Central Plains. The Central Plains receives relatively little rainfall and is often dry. However, in the Gangnam area it is different. There is a lot of precipitation here, and many places have become the "land of fish and rice".
There are already very few rivers in the Central Plains. In addition, there is too little rainfall and the river is dry. Where do people go to find fish and shrimp to eat? So the question is similar to Emperor Huidi of Jin's "why don't you eat meat"?
Most of the floods recorded in the history books refer to the famine-stricken Jiangnan region, which is the origin of the Dayu Zhishui. The drought is mainly in the Central Plains.
Then there is the flooding of fish and shrimp in ancient rivers, but the fishing technology is relatively backward, unlike the current various fishing tools, as well as special fishing boats, offshore fish, all caught to issue a river recuperation, and the ban on fishing small fish, so the ancient fishing technology and modern fishing advanced technology are too different, can be called the difference between the sky bag.
Ancient fishing is still stuck in the wide net, more fishing, fishing rod fishing state, ancient anglers, equivalent to the current fishing enthusiasts, in addition to the literati yashi fishing is to cultivate sentiments, purely rely on fishing to maintain life, it is very difficult.
About the ancient famine, there are so many fish and shrimp in the river, why don't people catch shrimp and eat it? That being said, feel free to leave your thoughts below.