Breakfast was called breakfast in ancient times. Some people say breakfast is breakfast. In fact, this is not correct. The so-called rice is a dish with meat as the main body. Breakfast is actually dinner. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, according to the court diet system of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor only ate two meals a day, which were called "breakfast" and "dinner". Breakfast is usually at six or seven o'clock in the morning after midnight. "Dinner" is usually at noon and from 12: 00 to 14: 00 (2: 00 pm). Besides dinner, the emperor also eats "breakfast" and "late afternoon". "Morning" usually appears around "early morning" (five o'clock) after getting up. "Afternoon" is usually held at "you", that is, around 6 pm. For example, in Qianlong's thirty-year southern tour, the breakfast every day is "stewed bird's nest with rock sugar". Old yum! Not so blessed.

Because of the difficulty in lighting, the ancients could only "work at sunrise and rest at sunset", so breakfast (dinner) should not be too early and dinner should not be too late. Ordinary people have two meals a day. Breakfast is between Tatsumi, that is, around 9 am, and the second meal is around Shenshi (15:00- 17:00). Of course, there is also a time difference between the north and the south.

The cooked food processed by the ancients with grain was mainly rice and porridge. Therefore, it is called breakfast. In ancient times, ordinary people could only afford meat on holidays.

In the north, the breakfast of the ancients was mainly wheat such as noodles and steamed bread. The south is dominated by rice and porridge, as well as other miscellaneous grains.