The ancient ecological environment is generally much better than now, whether it is rivers, lakes and seas or mountains and forests, it is better than today, in such a good ecological environment, there are more natural animals, such as wild boars and pheasants on the mountains, and there are many fish and shrimp in the river.
With such a unique ecological environment, it is reasonable to say that the ancients should eat more abundant things, so some people are more curious, why in ancient times, when there was famine, there were so many people starving to death, wouldn't they fish or hunt and eat?
Let's start with the environmental conditions for fishing
Want to fish, naturally need to have rivers and lakes and seas, generally larger rivers and lakes and seas, it is certainly impossible to fish, after all, the conditions are not allowed, general fishing can only be in some relatively shallow rivers, it is more reliable, such as our southern region today, many have rivers, more suitable for fishing.
But the problem is, generally the southern region we see today, in the relatively distant ancient times, in fact, did not belong to the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Dynasty, in ancient times, the general so-called Central Plains Dynasty, mainly refers to the north and the Central Plains, the south in ancient times most of the time belonged to the barbarian region, such as Yunnan and Sichuan, in ancient times belonged to remote areas.
It is precisely because the ancient Central Plains Dynasty, most of the time is dominated by the north, so the natural geographical environment has been decided, can not be changed at all, many places in the north have few rivers, coupled with drought or cold environment, directly led to the winter, not to mention fishing, even eating leaves are a problem, this objective condition is the essential reason for determining the ancients can not fish in the famine years.
After all, there are very few rivers in the northern region, and the innate conditions for wanting to fish are not allowed, and if the ancients want to fish, do they still have to run to the south to conquer the city? This is obviously not very reliable, if people still have so much strength, presumably they will not be starved to death.
Let's talk about fishing and hunting techniques
The environmental conditions themselves are not very allowable to fish, so the assumption that the ancients fished is difficult to establish, if you consider the ancient technical conditions and fishing tools, I think you will feel that eating leaves is much more reliable than fishing.
The fishing techniques and tools we know today mainly include fishing, using fishing gears, using nets, using fishing guns and the like, these technologies are still relatively mature in our society today, so we usually fish less difficult, as long as there are fish in the river, basically there will be a lot of idle people who have nothing to do and specialize in fishing.
However, in the ancient historical background, in fact, these tools and technologies are immature, so the ancients want to use fishing nets and other tools to fish, obviously some unreliable, if there is no such advanced tools, just rely on fishing or catch fish alive by hand, I am afraid it is unrealistic, even if we want to catch fish directly with our hands today, it is not realistic.
Since the advanced degree of tools is not enough, then the ancients want to fish, there may be a whole day of busy work in vain, just imagine, itself in the famine years, people are already hungry, but also risk not catching fish to fish, if you do not catch fish for several days, presumably this person has been starved to death, compared to eating leaves, tree roots, may be more unreliable fishing.
Besides, fishing also requires a lot of physical strength, people who are in a state of hunger themselves, simply do not have so much energy to consume, rather than risking fishing, it is better to obediently eat some leaves, tree roots, at least can save their lives, in the famine years, as long as they can save their lives, people will not care what they eat.
Some people may think that occasionally get some fish to eat, in fact, it is also very good, after all, it is delicious, in fact, this idea may not be reliable, because in most ancient dynasties, salt is more expensive, for those who are hungry to death, there may be no salt at home, there is no oil and water to make fish to eat, what condiments do not put fish, it is estimated that it will not be delicious, fishy taste is unbearable, a lack of attention will spit out.
Since fishing is not reliable, why didn't the ancients hunt? There are so many wild boars, pheasants and other animals on the mountain, the ancients only need to fight one to go home, you can eat for a long time, why didn't people at that time hunt? Obviously, this idea is even more unreliable, even more unreliable than fishing, why do you say so?
It is estimated that many people have not seen wild boars, but domestic pigs should still be seen, even after the domestic pigs are angry, people are not opponents, let alone wild boars, in ancient times, only bows and arrows or some primitive tools to hunt, lethality is very weak, want to directly a fatal move, it is simply impossible.
Once the wild boar is provoked, the explosive power is quite amazing, can directly push the tree down, not to mention an ordinary person, the wild boar can be fatal in one move, you simply do not dare to easily offend it, in other words, in the ancient technical conditions, the risk of hitting the wild boar is higher than the risk of being starved to death, itself hungry without the power of the chicken, but also want to fight the wild boar, it is even more fantastic.
In general, human beings are in the process of continuous learning, only to master a lot of advanced technology, invent more advanced tools, such as want to fight wild boar, naturally need guns to do, to modern times after the gun, it has become possible to fight wild boar, but now wild boar has become a rare animal, we can only protect, can not hurt.
epilogue
In general, the ancient environment, technology and tools used by people are very different from today, so we can't think about ancient things with today's thinking, otherwise it is easy to have the tragic joke of "why not eat meat", each era has a difference in each era, we can learn to understand, while learning lessons, but there is no need to assume, because history has never been if!
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