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Now there is a saying, Presumably everyone should know, that is, "people are iron, rice is steel, a meal is not hungry panic", this sentence is actually very easy to understand, that is, people must eat three meals a day, every meal must be eaten, and there is a better match with this, that is, "breakfast is eaten well, lunch is full, dinner is eaten less", in fact, three meals a day is really very common for modern people. It is only because you want to sleep late or to lose weight that you will reduce the number of meals you eat, and you will only eat one or two meals a day. But I don't think everyone knows that three meals a day was gradually formed after the Tang Dynasty, and in the ancient society before the Tang Dynasty, two meals a day was people's daily routine. Of course, the reason for this is not like modern people, in order to lose weight or sleep late.
On the one hand, in ancient times, because China was a large agricultural country, the most common in ancient society was the peasants, who lived a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, but despite this, their food was not abundant, and after paying the grain tax of the imperial court, they actually had very little left. Because the grain itself was not abundant, and there were no electric lights at night in ancient times, the poor people could only try to do more farm work during the day. Therefore, they can only save the time for eating, so they generally eat breakfast and dinner, eat a little later for breakfast, and eat a little earlier for dinner, so that lunch can be omitted. They were able to do a little more farm work while saving food, and breakfast and dinner were also fully enough to satisfy their physical consumption throughout the day.
On the other hand, the ancient court was actually two meals a day. Some people may wonder, is there also a shortage of food in the palace? But in fact, the reason for the royal family's two meals a day is completely different. As the emperor of a country, he is certainly the least short of food, but he also eats twice a day, because his breakfast and dinner are actually very rich. It is even impossible to say that a meal of more than a dozen dishes, that is considered the emperor is simple, the common will also be a meal of hundreds of dishes. In this way, even if you only taste one or two bites of a dish, you can completely eat enough. It is precisely because of this that even the ancient emperors did not have to worry about starvation at all.
In addition, for the ancient royal family, the meal of two meals a day is a meal, and the royal family and nobles will also eat some small snacks when they are free, which are not within the two meals, for them, these are called partial meals. But in the ancient imperial palace, even if it was a partial meal, it was very exquisite, after all, this was to serve the royal family. Therefore, at the end of the day, the main meal plus the partial meal, how do not need three meals a day, after all, from the perspective of health, eating too much is indeed not good for the body.
Now everyone should know why the ancient people were twice a day, although the poor people and the ancient royal family have different reasons, but at least the rules are the same. It was not until the middle and late Tang Dynasty that the habit of three meals a day was gradually formed, and it has continued to this day. Although modern people may be a panic of not eating hunger, you must not think that the ancients have long been accustomed to it. Now you know what?
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