Japanese diet, such as seafood, should be formed due to geographical reasons. Japan's food production is not high, but it guards the sea. But why has sashimi become such a classic? According to Wikipedia (referring to a Japanese document), human beings were originally eating like birds and animals, but Japan just continued this habit, which is an independent eating habit. I think it may be that their ancestors went fishing in the sea, and they were too hungry to cook the fish, so they ate the raw ones with soy sauce, and then they thought it was delicious, so they kept this tradition. Don't laugh. I think this makes sense. In fact, there are still many countries that eat raw. I once saw on TV that Eskimos eat the liver of a seal that they just hunted raw, and Koreans also eat raw octopus with long legs. In addition, although we always think that the Japanese are descendants of Xu Fu or Yang Guifei, the Japanese think that they are a mixture of Europeans and Asians from the north. I think this is also reasonable. Some people in Japan have deep contours, but China people generally can't grow such deep contours. So, maybe the sashimi inherited the tradition of Eskimos. Of course, this reason is my own guess, which may not be very reliable.

Besides sashimi, there are obvious raw eggs. Of course, they are cooked, but the frequency of raw eggs is much higher than that in China, so I don't know why. In addition, vegetables may be raw, depending on the collocation, mainly sashimi side dishes, as well as lettuce in salads. Life in Japan is greatly influenced by the west, and western food is more common in Japan, so some of them may also be influenced by western food, such as fried eggs or meat. I have eaten shrimp or fish slightly fried on sushi. Fried steak can keep the juicy and tender taste of the meat. I don't know if sashimi has this consideration, but I think it is unlikely. Since the Japanese all think that raw food is a continuation of primitive living habits, primitive people should not eat it raw for the sake of gravy and taste.

In fact, there are not many raw foods in Japanese cuisine. Perhaps the public relations are so good that Japanese cuisine has some status in the food industry, so sashimi is also famous. Then again, there are few things in the traditional Japanese diet, such as rice, pickles, cooking pots, miso, sashimi, sushi, and fried food (it is doubtful whether this is native to Japan), which is basically the same. Except sashimi, everything else is cooked.

Through Japanese diet, we can see two characteristics of Japanese people, which are not only reflected in diet, but also in all aspects of life. One feature is attention to detail. It may be that there are few materials, so we should make them carefully. We should pay attention to the shape of food, the arrangement of dishes, the collocation, and even the scratches on the fish. Watching a Japanese TV series, even the beans for flavor enhancement are selected one by one, which is something that even those who have always pursued food will not notice. In our opinion, this is really wordy at times, but the rise of Japan is not only due to the hard work of a generation, but also due to their attention to detail, so that they provide the world with well-made products (we provide resources and cheap labor), and their own enterprises and countries are also very orderly. Their attention to detail can be observed everywhere in Japan.