This question has something to do with why we don't eat minced meat. In private ownership society, fish and shrimp are the territory of a big family, and you can't just go into the river or the sea. There is a line in the old movie "Six Sisters": The housekeeper with a moustache said to the villagers who picked tea: This mountain belongs to Master Mo, and this water belongs to Master Mo. You have to pay tea tax if you want to pick tea, and you have to pay fish tax if you want to go into the water. Besides, you need tools to catch it. There is no shortage of food when there is a famine. People starved to death in 2000, usually natural or man-made disasters. If it doesn't rain for half a year during the drought, the crops will never be harvested. Modern people have never experienced famine, and it is impossible to imagine the scene at that time. I have never experienced famine, and it is really hard to imagine what it was like in those days. Thousands of miles away, dry and naked, I can't think of any other way to feed except bark.

When the river dries up, where are the fish? Even if there were fish, how could the price of the net at that time be compared with that of the net now? At that time, there was no modern industry, glue line and nylon, and a net was not as good as it is now. If ordinary people are not fishermen, there is no net at all. If it is a flood, it will be terrible. Think about the consequences. The ancients were not stupid. They can think of what modern people can think of, but they can't look at the ancients with modern people sitting on the current technology. Fishing requires a lot of physical strength, and hungry people have little physical strength. I heard a story. During the great famine, hungry people went to the reservoir to catch mussels. When they caught mussels, they had no physical strength to walk ashore. I couldn't get my feet out of the mud, and finally I was exhausted and drowned in the river.

Fish and shrimp are protein, and rice and noodles are carbohydrates. It is not enough to eat fish and shrimp. Fish and shrimp are rich in protein and low in fat. Digesting and absorbing protein will consume valuable fat, which means eating fish and shrimp will make people lose weight, just like some places in Africa now. It's not that I don't want to eat, I should be afraid to eat. Otherwise, people are too hungry to do anything! At that time, the hunting tools were simple and there were few hunters. One day, you may get nothing. Moreover, fish is not a staple food, and it tastes light and salt-free. For workers, it is similar to wild vegetables, but the process of obtaining them is more difficult and troublesome than wild vegetables. By the time you catch a fish the size of a finger, you may have starved to death.

Without oil and salt, there would be no pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, pepper and so on. And the fish really can't swallow. Moreover, there were basically no fish in the river in the drought and flood years in previous years, and there may be more loaches and turtles. Why did New China organize voluntary workers to repair ditches and dig rivers to build water conservancy projects in winter for 40 consecutive years? Isn't it just for a drought and flood to ensure the harvest? Eating fish requires heavy oil and water. People who are chronically hungry will commit suicide slowly. We have never lacked fish there, and people have starved to death before. We don't want to eat, and we can't eat, including lotus root. Only for emergencies, not for long. We must have oil and salt.

Wild fish should be difficult to satisfy hunger as a staple food. Just like fishing now, you may catch a fish about a catty after fishing all morning. There is no meat except head and bones. If you have this time, sit still and fish, you might as well dig underground insects to eat. If it's fishing, it's not so good. Fishing nets and bamboo rafts were not owned by every family in ancient times. In the ancient famine years, all the things at home were sold out, and these things were basically gone. Also, if you eat fish in famine years, how many kilograms of fish is enough for a person to eat a day? In 20 19, the catch of hairtail (the largest fish caught in China) in China was about 6,543,800 tons, enough for 200 million people to eat for about ten days. There are still large fishing boats fishing on the high seas far from the shore. Do you let people who lived mainly in the two river basins in ancient times eat fish? Do you catch them? For a long time after liberation, fish was a scarce resource. I want to say that at least before the 1990s, not every family could afford fish. What's the difference between eating fish and not eating minced meat in famine years?

Generally, there will be no famine where there are fish. Where there is fish, there is water. Water can be irrigated, and irrigation can produce food. No matter how ruthless the rulers are, they will not hinder the people from developing agriculture. On the contrary, the areas prone to drought and famine in ancient times were all in the north, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, with little rain, underdeveloped water networks and fish to catch. Moreover, fishing is also a technical activity. How to judge the fish nest and how to cast a net are all particular. Many northerners can't swim at all, just don't drown. It's no use fishing, even if they catch fish. This fish is not full at all. 3 kg of fish can produce 1 kg of meat.

Since ancient times, there have been few water sources for refugees. There are three major refugee flows in China, mainly in Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi. The main reason is drought and locust natural disasters caused by drought. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, which have water sources, have never experienced similar disasters. Fish without oil and salt tastes bad, and it is easy to get sick if you eat fish often. Even when you didn't eat it in the 1980s, my dad just went to Henan to eat the radish picked by the pole, and no one here wanted a catty of fish for a catty of radish. This is like the lobster disaster in our country twenty years ago. Who wants lobster without oil? It's a waste of oil to fry shrimp.

Strictly speaking, there is no way to eat fish and shrimp in the arid areas in the north, and there are not many famine years in the land of fish and rice in the south. There are fish and turtles everywhere, and the chance of starvation is very small. My ancestors were fishermen. In the old society, there were many fish in the Yangtze River. It's normal for a net to weigh several hundred kilos, sometimes one or two kilos. But at that time, many people didn't eat fish and shrimp because they didn't dare to eat or cook (no cooking, no seasoning such as ginger and garlic). But in the dense ditches, small fish, eels, loaches, frogs and crabs are all rich, which can be said to be flooding. In famine years, as long as you put a condom in the ditch, it is no problem to eat.

1986 When I was born, my mother caught seven or eight wild turtles downstairs and ate them. When I was a child, my grandfather cooked me a wild turtle every three days, and I felt sick. I also ate dozens of wild hedgehogs (now that I think about it, it is really a heinous crime). Therefore, we have rarely heard of people starving to death since ancient times, and the wild fish, shrimps, crabs and turtles are really rich. When my mother was a child, she even ate the Chinese sturgeon finless porpoise on the boat, but fishermen generally didn't eat finless porpoises, because they were too fat and didn't taste good, so they used ordinary cooking oil to salvage them. Therefore, to sum up, only the water-deficient areas in the north and some areas in the south can't eat fish and shrimp in famine years.