In the eyes of foreigners, China's Chinese is astronomical, it is too difficult to learn, in fact, not only foreigners have such a feeling, we Chinese when facing ancient texts are also very confused.
If it is not translated, I believe that many people cannot understand the meaning of ancient texts, these words and sentences, so the culture of our country is broad and profound. In the long history, the ancients have left us a lot of precious works, in addition to ancient texts and poems, there are many sayings and proverbs, and the sayings are the most circulated in our country.
In these seemingly unsightly colloquial sayings, there are actually many truths and philosophies, they condense the wisdom and experience of the ancients, ancient poetry is too difficult for ordinary people, after all, in ancient times, there were still a few people who read and read, so they could not compile poems.
But the ancients accumulated a lot of rich experience in life, and it needed to be passed on from generation to generation, so the wise ancients invented proverbs, slips of the tongue and colloquialisms. For example, this proverb "horse meat stinks, donkey meat is fragrant, starve to death do not eat mule meat", this is a well understood saying, which means that horse meat is not delicious, donkey meat is very fragrant, but even if you starve to death, you can't eat mule meat, so why can't you eat mule meat?
Diet has always been very important in our lives, because only a certain amount of nutrition can be healthy, so these nutrients need to be drawn from vegetables, fruits, meat. Although many people do not want to harm innocent animals, in order to survive, people must eat meat, and the meat that people often eat is pork, beef, chicken and fish. But eating these kinds of meat often can also feel greasy, so people are also willing to try some meats, such as donkey meat and horse meat, but horse meat is relatively rare, and no one eats mule meat.
So is horse meat really smelly? In fact, in ethnic minorities, horse meat is a traditional delicacy, so why is there a saying that horse meat stinks? In fact, this has to start from ancient times. In ancient times, people had no means of transportation, and horses were their only means of transportation, but the number of horses in ancient times was not much, and many horses had to be requisitioned by the army and became an important tool for combat.
In the army's horses, they will go through a long period of training, and even some of them will travel long distances all year round and participate in various battles, so that the horse's muscle lactic acid accumulates too much, so that the horse's meat is not tender, affecting the meat quality of the horse, so it is too difficult to make the horse meat into a delicious dish. Of course, in ancient times, there were still very few people who ate horse meat, and horses were very precious and not many, unless they ate horse meat as a last resort.
In modern society, there are means of transportation, so the role of horses has also been reduced a lot, and basically there is no need for combat. But people still rarely eat horse meat, although horse meat contains a lot of vitamins and minerals. Therefore, horse meat is not smelly, and now horse meat is not only tender, but also very nutritious.
Donkey meat is one of our more common meats, and even the taste of donkey meat is very fresh and delicious, for example, we often eat donkey meat steamed dumplings, sauce donkey meat and so on are delicious dishes. We also buy donkey meat very conveniently, as long as you go to the market, you can buy it, so donkey meat is more popular than horse meat.
So why can't you eat mule meat even if you starve to death? In fact, mules are a combination of horses and donkeys, in ancient society the number of horses is very small, and most of them have become military horses, but the people also need horses to work, so it is combined by horses and donkeys, so mules can not have children because of genetic reasons.
In ancient times, people's thinking was more feudal and conservative, thinking that eating mule meat would affect people's fertility, and it was very important to give birth to children in ancient times, so people resolutely did not eat mule meat in order to constantly smoke and fire. And in ancient times mules were an important labor force, although horses were taller than mules and donkeys, and their strength was greater than theirs, but their endurance was limited.
Although the donkey has a docile personality, but the volume is not large, a lot of work is not suitable for donkey dry, and the mule just combines the advantages of horses and donkeys, not only has endurance, strength is also relatively large, people use a lot. In addition, in ancient times, they were very important laborers, so people also had certain feelings, and natural people could not bear to eat their flesh.
In fact, I have not eaten mule meat, and now mules are rare, where is there meat to eat? But it is not excluded that mule meat is difficult to eat, and perhaps it is also a delicacy? In fact, humans at the top of the food chain are more cruel and helpless, because the needs of the body have to eat meat, but we can eat some of the more common meat, which is enough to meet the needs of the body.
So we can choose to eat less animal meat, such as horse meat, mule meat, cat meat and dog meat, and those wild animals can not eat. After all, animals are human neighbors, and if there were no animals, then we humans would be truly alone.