As a mountainous island country, Japan has been starving of food since ancient times, and even today, Japan lives on imported grain.
The evolutionary history of mankind is the evolutionary history of meat, from raw meat - cooked meat - bacon - cured meat - canned, all reflect the progress of human civilization.
The ancient Japanese were caught in a vicious circle:
Hunger - can not catch fish, meat - hunger;
Poor property - backward hunting tools - can not catch animals - hunger;
Unable to catch animals - can not be domesticated - hunger;
Hunger - caught fish - handed over to the lord - eaten by the lord - hungry
Then the emperor said, forget it, you red deer will eat grass.
The Japanese samurai are 1.5 meters tall and are already a fierce general on a thousand horses.
Japan Zhang Fei: Honda Tadakatsu, height: about 1.43m. (This height this combat power, angry Zhang Fei wants to hit people!) ）
In Japan in the 8th century AD, the Buddhist Emperor Saga first issued the "Meat Ban". Later emperors continued to enforce the law prohibiting the eating of meat, and ancient Japanese nobles and samurai became rabbits, eating grass all day, even fish. (In fact, the emperor is a very bad person, the imperial family has its own farm forest rice field, eating meat is not a big problem) (long-term vegetarian diet has a certain impact on the body of the ruling class noble samurai, at this time the "Heishi" samurai are encountering the challenge of the "Genji" samurai, Genji was born in the mountains, eat birds and beasts, in the Battle of Genpei in 1185, the Hei clan army was defeated. Genji defeats Heishi)
It was not until after the Meiji Restoration that they were shocked by the height and weight of Americans and fully understood the role of meat on people.
People who have eaten meat, of course, know that meat is far more delicious than vegetarian food, and can provide more energy, but meat can not get ah. Japan, which is lowly productive, is also poor in products and in short supply.
Two-course recipe:
1. Small rice (porridge), two pieces of boiled radish, two pieces of rice (porridge), one small fish with two fingers wide, one small dish of pickled radish, one cup of boiled wild vegetables in white water, and one small bowl of miso soup
First, the poor people's brunch, do not eat dinner, catch fish and other meat mostly handed over to the lord, long-term eating chaff and drinking thin, resulting in weakness, short stature.
The second is the brunch of the noble lords, do not eat dinner, here you can see, the nobles eat salt, have the conditions to drink soup, but the fish this thing also has to be handed over by the lords at the bottom, not handed over (and this fish, only when the most important guests come, can be taken out, otherwise it is the wealth at the bottom of the pressure box, and the famine year can be exchanged for a lot of grain).
Because there is very little food, it is necessary to put a few more bowls, a bowl of turnips, which can psychologically imply that you have eaten a lot. In fact, it is really not necessary to eat the next policy, which has also been passed down to this day, I believe that everyone feels that the amount of Japanese food stores is difficult for even women to eat. If it is a northern man, I am afraid that one person can consume most of the materials of a small Japanese food shop.
Japan is proud of the "sashimi", which was actually invented by our ancestors in the Warring States period, when it was called "fish" and "fish raw", when carp was used, and now there are many marine fish. Later, why didn't the ancestors love to eat it? Because of the discovery of salt, the use of various spices, and the diversification of cooking methods, civilization is evolving, how can you go back to eating raw meat? And why is it so popular in Japan? Because salt is very expensive, isolated overseas, and there is little cultural exchange, the development of cooking technology is almost stagnant.