Nowadays, people basically do not worry about food and clothing, and even save some money to travel while meeting all their needs, and life can be said to be very comfortable. So in such an environment, people began to waste extravagantly, waste food and waste water resources, and so on. However, if these people were born in ancient times, don't say that food was wasted, and when there is a disaster or a bad harvest, you can even take out the soil to eat.
In the ancient agricultural society of our country, it was necessary to pay high taxes, and after paying them, they could feed their families. However, the ancient peasants also had to watch the sky to eat, once they encountered drought, locust plague, flood, then there would be no harvest for a year, and many people would starve to death. However, many people are curious, in ancient times, famine, why did the people prefer to eat bark and grass roots instead of going to the mountains to hunt and fish in the river?
In fact, it is not that they are reluctant to go hunting in the mountains, but the wild animals in the shallow areas of the general mountains have long been caught, and although there are edible wild animals or wild vegetables in the deep mountains, it is also easy to encounter large creatures such as tigers and black bears, so it is not sent to them as a plate of Chinese food.
As for fishing, the ancients were not stupid, and the fish that could be caught in the event of famine had long been caught. Moreover, in general, there are no rivers in the Central Plains when famine occurs, and even if you want to fish, you can't catch it. Even in coastal areas, in ancient times, there were not so many tools to catch a large number of fish, so it is likely that there is little harvest at the end of the day. And in ancient times, few people could afford to eat oil, so in the case of scarce seasonings, the boiled fish was basically fishy and could not be swallowed.
And even if you can catch fish by hitting the prey, these things are easy to spoil after a few days of eating, and the extra food can only be watched and broken. Disasters generally last a long time, so it is difficult for people to last that long, and the vicious circle, the more hungry the less able to work and hunt and fish, so in the end hungry can only eat some bark and grass roots to survive. If there is a local court willing to help the victims, it would be better, if there is no such people, these victims will not even eat the bark of the tree and finally have to lie down and wait for death. Therefore, it is very happy that we can live in modern times without worrying about eating and drinking, so extravagance and waste are still unacceptable, and even now there are still many people in many areas who do not have enough to eat.