In the history category, especially the life category, most people say that pork is cheap meat. Even ordinary people and beggars in the story despise pork. Then the protagonist works hard to change; "he" does not hesitate to fight with the entire world in order to change the world's ideas. The world is our enemy, so out of curiosity, we conducted a detailed investigation and finally came up with the following content——
During the period of the Five Emperors of Yan and Huang, or even earlier, wild boars had been domesticated into domestic pigs. During the Zhou Dynasty, pork was a staple of the scholar-bureaucrats’ plate. Therefore, according to historical records (Zhou Dynasty), “The emperor’s food was too strong, and he had all three animals including cattle, sheep, and hogs. Eat cattle, ministers eat sheep, senior officials eat pigs, scholars eat fish and grilled fish, and common people eat vegetables."
Gou Jian, the king of Yue, even issued a policy to encourage childbirth: "To give birth to a husband, two pots of wine and one dog; to give birth to a woman, two pots of wine and one dolphin." This means that if you give birth to a boy, you will be rewarded with two pots of wine and a dog; if you give birth to a daughter, you will be rewarded with two pots of wine and a pig. If the people of Yue want to eat pork, they can get a pig from the government as long as they give birth to a daughter.
At the Hongmen Banquet, there is a record of the consumption of pork. Fan Kuai broke into the banquet to save Liu Bang, and Xiang Yu "gave him a pig shoulder", which meant giving him a pig leg to eat. At that time, the people who could attend Xiang Yu's banquet were probably from the aristocracy and high-ranking people.
Then, the pig-gating technology that appeared in the Han Dynasty perfectly solved the problem of poor taste of pork; after that, pork became the food of "thousands of households". Sima Qian once said, "There are two hundred horses with hooves on the land, a thousand hooves and horns for cattle, a thousand-legged sheep, and a thousand-footed pigeons in the lake... These people are all the same as those of thousands of households." This means that he has 50 horses, 200 cattle, and 250 cattle. The wealth of a family with 250 sheep and 250 pigs is comparable to that of a thousand households.
People generally do not kill cows and horses, but sheep mainly eat their gizzards and use their wool, so pigs are mainly used to make money. And ordinary people cannot afford meat. If there are no nobles eating pork, how can there be so much real wealth?
It can be seen that before the Han Dynasty, Han people and nobles did not reject pork at all.
It’s just that pigs are difficult to raise, so under the premise that the imperial court prohibited the killing of cattle, horses for fighting, and hauling goods, mutton was the main meat. During the long period of time since the Five Hu Dynasties devastated China, the world was dominated by the "Hu people". Their main meat was sheep, which were relatively easy to raise. Although pork has not disappeared from the stage of history, "sheep are the best in mainland China". It is difficult to Compared with raised pigs and sheep, the food range is undoubtedly much inferior.
Therefore, the concept of "pork is cheap meat" is mainly a social trend that gradually evolved under the influence of low breeding capabilities; this is a long-term process. It is not very appropriate to denounce pork as "cheap meat" at every turn. Desirable.
As for when did pork become "cheap meat" and when did the concept of "cheap meat" become popular in the world? Personally, I prefer those after the Tang Dynasty, because before the Tang Dynasty, the social atmosphere was very open and not so particular.
Of course, famous families may have despised pork for a long time to show their extraordinary and nobility, but before the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was probably not the mainstream consciousness of society.
——Out of boredom and curiosity, I took it out to read the content. If it’s inappropriate, don’t spray it!
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