? Get up earlier than the chicken and go to bed later than the dog? This sentence is really not an exaggeration to describe the works of the ancients. Taking care of crops is usually very hard. In order to take care of the crops in the field, the ancients often got up early. At dawn, hardworking people have been working in the fields. Sometimes catch up with the busy farming, many people can only eat in the fields and rely on the elderly, women and children at home to deliver meals. It's just that such efforts are not as high as imagined.
In ancient times, fields were often in the hands of landlords. Ordinary farmers can only rent fields to work, and most of the final harvest has to be paid. What is more regrettable is that the climatic conditions in ancient times were not as good as expected. In the case of drought or flood, farmers often fail to harvest. And even if all conditions were normal, the farmers' harvest was still very small, all because the yield per mu of crops was low at that time. After all, Grandpa Yuan Longping didn't appear at that time, so farmers' life was not very good, and they basically depended on the weather to eat.
Because of the development of science and technology, people nowadays seldom do farm work, their living conditions have improved a lot, and their appetite is much smaller than that of the ancients. People's pursuit of food is no longer limited to satiety. Many people pursue a higher quality of life, and their requirements for food have also increased a lot. Ordinary families require food to be healthy and fresh, while people with better conditions require more food.