What a catty of beef is. Here, let's not discuss the legality of eating beef in ancient times, but let him eat it or not. That's what it says in the novel. Let's regard beef as the standard staple food of heroes.

Then the question is coming. Is there more than two Jin of beef? To be honest, it depends on the difference. In the past, we used to eat in the school cafeteria. Most of our boys ate five or two meals, and then we went to our classmates' school. When I told them to eat five or two meals, my classmates were shocked on the spot, saying that we usually ate two or two, but we could eat three or two. I'm not big, how can I eat five or two meals? Later, my classmates went to cook rice, and I looked at it. Their two meals were similar to our five meals. After discussion, we came to a conclusion that the measurement standards were different. Our school used cooked rice to measure, but they were raw rice, and the standards were different, so there was a difference.

generally speaking, now that raw beef is cooked, the yield is 61% to 71%, which means that a catty of raw beef is cooked to 67%. So the question comes, how do you calculate the beef that heroes eat? According to the description of the situation at that time, it was said that two Jin of cooked beef was cut up. These heroes were generous and would not stare at the weight of the store. However, cutting two Jin of cooked beef directly means weighing and cutting the cooked beef, otherwise it is not easy to weigh and convert. It seems that two catties of cooked beef is equivalent to three catties to three and a half catties. Eating so much beef at one time is really a big appetite, but a strong man like Lu Zhishen and Wu Song can actually eat two catties more.

If we have to push two Jin of beef carefully to calculate how much it is today, we can study it again. Some people say that a Jin of 16 Liang in ancient times is different from today's Jin, so it must not be 811 grams. Indeed, the ancient weight was hexadecimal, but the ancient weights and measures are different from today's two. According to relevant records, the conversion of one catty into grams in ancient times was different in each dynasty. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, one catty was equivalent to 633 grams today, and two catties of cooked beef was equivalent to nearly two kilograms and four catties today. This amount is no problem for wrestlers and sumo wrestlers with large tonnage today.

Of course, don't talk about those professionals. There are also many folk experts on eating, and you can never speculate on your body shape and appearance. When I was in high school, I had a classmate, who was not tall and a little strong. He was not bad at eating. The most exaggerated thing is that there are four bowls of beef Lamian Noodles and ten fried dough sticks for breakfast at a time. Although there are few pieces of beef in the beef noodles, the noodles are real, and normal people are full in one bowl. According to his posture, a meal really gives him two Jin of cooked beef, and I have no doubt that he can eat it completely. I still remember that when I was six or seven years old, I could eat four big buns in a meal, but now I can't eat either.

The description of two catties of beef in the novel is mainly empty fingers, which just sounds good. Through the description of beef, we can also reflect the personalities and experiences of different heroes. Like Wu Song and Lu Zhishen, they eat a few pounds of wine and a few pounds of meat directly. They are generous and domineering when they shout. In any case, beef is not something that ordinary people can eat. Men with beef, the more they eat, the stronger they get. For example, the same Liangshan hero, like Song Jiang, will eat sour fish, but also specially choose fresh fish to make sober soup, and also choose golden carp to taste refreshing. As a result, he stuttered so much that he had diarrhea in the middle of the night, which made him die. Later, well, he ran out and got drunk again, and he was caught directly with an anti-poem. Look at this. The difference between Song Jiang and Wu Song, Lu Zhishen and others can be reflected by eating.

Seeing the scene of eating beef among heroes in the Water Margin now, I really envy it. That kind of lofty sentiments is hard to realize today. Even if I buy a few pounds of beef and cook it at home, I'm afraid I don't have the appetite to eat so much by myself. What if you go to a store, such as a high-end barbecue shop, where people come over with snowflake beef and a balance knife, cut it off a little bit and weigh it on the balance, and it will be gone if you weigh it hundreds or thousands. If you don't have the money, you will tremble at the change of the gram number. If you eat such a meal, you are not angry at all, and there is no time to eat beef.