Do you know? Although we are used to having three meals a day today. But in the long history, our ancestors actually only ate two meals a day.

So, why have we changed from two meals a day to three meals a day?

the answer to this question is actually very simple. Although appetite is a natural desire of human beings, life is the main theme of human beings. With the emergence of society, people's lives are bound to be influenced by social existence. Eating habits also change with the economic situation and social operation.

In the past two thousand years, China society has experienced the transformation from a small-scale peasant economy to a commodity economy. It affects the operating rules of the whole society, and it also affects the eating habits of every household. People are transforming society and nature in the continuous development, but at the same time they are also influenced by the environment and nature.

In the period of self-sufficient natural economy, everything in people's production and life comes from nature, and farming is the most important economic source. Society is also an agricultural society, and most people in the population are also farmers. What they advocate is to rest at sunrise and rest at sunset.

for farmers, farming to support their families is the foundation of survival. Every day the farmers have a good breakfast at dawn and go to work in the fields with great energy. Generally, in order to improve efficiency, and the farming conditions are not developed, it is entirely dependent on manpower. Save the time of going back and forth for lunch and continue to work until it is getting dark, so there are only two meals.

as for the habit of eating three meals a day, it actually began in the song dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the people were rich, lived and worked in peace and contentment, and their commerce also developed greatly. Many businessmen have become popular in eating three meals a day.

In ancient times, merchants did not have developed transportation conditions. Businessmen spent a lot of time either on the way to transport goods or shopping for goods. In fact, they were extremely tired from running around. Three meals a day can meet his daily needs, and he will not be overworked because of hunger, which will affect his business.

With the more frequent and in-depth business and cultural exchanges between China and western cultures, the eating habits of West Asia and Europe have also had a certain impact on us. Three meals a day was also more suitable for the gradual development and change of China at that time, so it spread to the people and became the habit of most people.

To put it bluntly, eating habits are actually the result of historical choice.