Source: Wild Cloud Sheets
We don't usually hear a phrase: "I'm not a vegetarian", what does that mean? It means that I am not easy to mess with, and you should not bully people casually. Why don't you mess with it if you don't eat vegetarian? Because in ancient times, only nobles could eat meat, and ordinary people usually had to eat vegetarian food. "I'm not a vegetarian", in other words: I eat meat and have a background, which is equivalent to my dad being Li Gang.
In our impression, at that time in the Republic of China, landlords were the type of people who had the best life. So do they eat meat all at once? The answer is that they don't eat meat very often. It's not that I don't want to eat, it's that I can't afford to eat. It's not as good as today's most ordinary people.
My grandfather was a landlord before liberation, and once he bought a meat bun from a steamed bun shop on the street. At that time, the businessmen were very realistic, not as treacherous as they are today, and the steamed buns were really thin and filling, and when you walked on the street, you could smell the smell of meat wafting from the steamed bun shop.
The grandfather who bought the bun only ate the skin and did not eat the filling, left the meat filling, bought a large piece of tofu, took it home and stewed it with the meat filling, and the family ate several meals.
It can be seen that at that time, even the landlords were far from reaching the point of freedom to eat meat. Once, I asked my grandfather, what do the landlords usually eat? My grandfather said that when the farm is busy, he should invite long-term workers to help, in addition to paying wages and including dinner, the long-term workers do all manual work, and if they don't eat well, they don't have the strength to work on the second day, so my grandfather's family fried a plate of bacon that the whole family is usually reluctant to eat, but the amount of rice and meat is too small, and it is quickly eaten by the long-term workers, and they are not full, what should I do? I had no choice but to serve the boiled potatoes, and when the long-term workers returned home after eating, the grandfather would collect the artichoke skins peeled by the long-term workers and eat them.
This is the landlord's dinner.
This is how my grandfather was cruel to himself, so he saved up the land.
However, there are several types of landlords, such as grandfathers, who can only be regarded as small landlords, and those with the worst conditions belong to the landlord's family and have no surplus grain. The classification of landlords is also artificial, and does not represent the amount of wealth. So do those big landlords who have large tracts of land often eat meat? The answer is also no.
I have a friend's grandfather, before the liberation, he was the kind of big landlord who had a horse gang and ran a pot factory, and he had hundreds of guns and lived in a corner building. His mother told him that he could eat salted vegetables and meat once a week. At that time, the meat was really fragrant, it melted in the mouth, and the salted vegetables were mixed in the rice, and the oil was shiny, and the meat was a mouthful of rice. The old lady still remembers the scent.
I once asked the old lady curiously, as the daughter of a landlord, what do you usually do at home every day? She said that she was bored, drinking tea, listening to books, and eating melon seeds. Of course, the tea and melon seeds are all from their own fields.
None of the landlords' families can realize the freedom to eat meat, as ordinary people can imagine. After ordinary people pay the rent for the grain they grow, the remaining grain is only enough to eat for most of the year, and when they can't pick it up every year, they can only eat wild vegetables in the mountains. There is a food for the people at the bottom called bracken, this kind of wild vegetable often grows on the grave, so it is also called the grave grass, and it has reached the point that it is the grave grass, so ordinary people have almost no meat to eat all year round.
However, I heard my grandfather say that when ordinary people pay rent, the generous landlord will fry a large pot of back pot meat, and when the people who pay the rent get together 8 people, they will arrange to eat at the table, and they can eat a meal of meat at this time, so people at that time were very eager to pay rent.
Seeing that it was so difficult for people to eat a meal of meat in the past, I think we should be grateful to the Industrial Revolution and to the development of the productive forces led by science. The development of hybrid technology and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have made agriculture develop rapidly.
Thanks for living in this era.