In ancient times, countless people starved to death, so why didn't people dare to take locusts to satisfy their hunger?

In fact, there is no superstition, nor is it because there is no oil to fry locusts, and people eat everything when they are vicious. When I was a child, 7 years ago, I saw fried grasshoppers in Tianjin, which were very fragrant.

The real reason is that when a large group of locusts arrived, the sun was covered by bad weather, and there were a lot of crows and crows for dozens of minutes. Even the chickens who loved locusts flew around in fear. When they met a big river, the locusts automatically rolled into a big iron pot, and they crossed the river by buoyancy, and the river was full of blue locusts.

The speed of crossing the border is extremely fast. In one day, it took thousands of miles in the bare land, and there were few locusts afterwards.

at that time, all of them were small families, without warning, and suddenly they came and flew away, and all the crops were gone. People are still in shock, and it is too late to reflect that the locust plague has formed and the locusts have disappeared.

people can't catch locusts, which is the main reason why they can't eat them.

After liberation, with the development of science and technology, some methods of exterminating locusts began to appear, such as digging ditches, burying them and burning them. Nowadays, drones are used for early warning, and a large number of chickens and ducks are sent to eat from the beginning of larvae. When there is a locust plague, pesticides can be sprayed by plane, so no large-scale locust plague has been seen since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

"Locust" is what we usually call "grasshopper". This flying insect likes to live in groups and dry weather.

Locusts like to lay eggs in dry mud, and they have strong reproductive ability. In this way, every time there is a drought, there will be a plague of locusts, which is often called "ten droughts and nine locusts"

Because there were many droughts in ancient times, few natural enemies of locusts and no effective spraying of pesticides, there were many locust disasters in ancient times.

Locusts came in droves, devouring people's crops, leaving nothing where they passed, thus causing a large number of hungry people.

ordinary people have nothing to eat, so they have to chew the bark and eat Guanyin soil, or even eat it. So someone asked, there were so many locusts in ancient times, why didn't people fry them?

Needless to say, eating fried locusts is really a good way. After scientific research, the protein content of fried locusts is as high as 55.8%, and its nutritional content exceeds that of other meats. It is definitely a delicacy.

Now many restaurants or food stalls have this dish. Since it has many benefits, why didn't the ancient people eat locusts?

When it comes to this problem, it is actually a matter of people's ideas and thoughts. It is only in recent years that people really eat locusts.

In the past, people never thought of eating locusts at all, just like most people dare not eat snakes, which stems from an inner fear and cognition.

another reason why the ancients didn't eat locusts was that locusts migrated very quickly, and they didn't always stay in one place. In a disaster year, even if they could eat them, they wouldn't be able to eat them for a few days.

It should be said that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, was the earliest eater of locusts. One year, when there was a locust plague, Li Shimin made a political show in the back garden of his palace. He ate a locust in front of officials from the civil and military departments. He said that locusts eat people's food, and I eat locusts. This is tit for tat and blood for blood.

At that time, the ministers of civil and military affairs were frightened and knelt down together and said, "Your Majesty, don't eat locusts, it's bad for your health."

According to the official cognition, eating locusts is harmful and useless, so people naturally dare not eat them.

In addition, in ancient times, when there was a plague of locusts, from the emperor down to the common people thought that it was a "god worm" sent by heaven to punish the world. It was a warning from heaven that human beings didn't do well enough. How dare the common people eat the "god worm"?

of course, this is a foolish understanding.

Because there is no precedent for eating locusts, I dare not be the first person to eat crabs. This is just like when tomatoes were first introduced to China, most people thought tomatoes could not be eaten. Isn't tomato a popular dish now?

It's only in recent years that people eat fried locusts. Southerners are the first to set a precedent.

even now, I think some people still have psychological barriers to eating fried grasshoppers.

Another reason why the ancients didn't eat locusts was that there wasn't so much oil to fry locusts in the past. That is to say, without so many cooking techniques now, people can't eat grasshoppers raw, can they?

In times of famine, eating Guanyin soil and gnawing at bark is an inertial cognition, that is to say, there is no sense of disobedience, but eating grasshoppers has become an alternative.

Some things develop with the development of society, which can't be achieved overnight, let alone look at the ancients from a modern point of view. Maybe in the future, people will be able to eat more and more things.

When ancient locust plagues occurred, it was true that many people starved to death because of hunger, but the reason was not because they didn't eat locusts at all: First, the terror of locusts was the failure to harvest.

When the locust disaster happened, it was just the time of young crops, and the locusts flew by, and all the green leaves you could see, no matter crops, grass leaves and leaves, were completely eaten.

this season, it's definitely gone, so forget it. We can only wait for the next season. All of a sudden, we don't worry about spring and summer, but there will be no food in autumn and winter for six months. What should we do? Second, there was a locust plague, and local organizations organized people to kill locusts.

However, there are too many unbearable locusts, and besides, they can fly. In fact, in ancient times, the effect of killing locusts was really average, and all the locusts that were killed were eaten by people.

However, locusts cannot be preserved for a long time. Second, the locusts that were shot down, people flew across the border, and they were not enough to eat for a few days.

if you want to eat, what should I do?

think about it, locusts fly ten to hundreds of meters high, and fly one or two hundred kilometers a day. How much can you fight when crossing the border to eat your food and grass? Enough to eat for a few days. Third, after the locusts crossed the border, they began to replant, and they could only plant some crops that grew fast but had little harvest.

In general, when people store grain, the locust plague occurs in spring, and they eat it in autumn at most, and harvest it in autumn, just in time. However, after being eaten by locusts, this autumn harvest may not be saved.

After autumn and winter, when spring comes, people will be hungry all over the ground. Just in spring, there are no leaves. If you don't eat bark, what will you eat?

The following spring after the locusts, a large number of people fled the famine, or died of cold and hunger, and couldn't wait for the spring to bloom.

eat! Why don't you dare to eat? You're so hungry that you won't eat anything!

Only where can so many locusts eat all the year round?

What's more, locusts eat "meat". As long as they can satisfy their hunger, there are not enough locusts!

However, locusts are seasonal pests, and they come and go in a hurry. Eating locusts can't keep people from starving to death!

in the locust plague era, the ancients ate everything as long as they were hungry. It's just that the diet is different from modern times. It doesn't have so much oil and water, and it doesn't fry locusts. At most, it's made of dog tail grass and cooked in the fire.

locusts are called grasshoppers, and friends who grew up in the countryside like me should know that they are not ugly pests.

When I was a child, I often heard my grandmother talk about the famine in the past 1958——6u, especially when many children died of hunger. My grandmother and her young uncles dug up the roots of weeds to satisfy their hunger, and put some roots or weeds in a pot of clean water, which was a very bitter day.

Anyone with common sense knows that swarms of locusts will soon eat up the crops and then move to the next place in a short time.

Although the ancients knew that crops would be reduced or no grain would be harvested after the plague of locusts. However, it is obviously impossible to catch many locusts in such a short time to ensure that they will not starve to death in the future, but there is no way to stop them. We can only watch locusts ruin crops.

In ancient times, people didn't have the conditions to store food, so they couldn't desperately catch grasshoppers to eat during the locust plague. What should we do after this meal?

Moreover, locusts are highly mobile and migrate while eating. It is unrealistic to catch enough locusts to maintain food and clothing. Even if eating locusts can solve the temporary hunger, how can we live without food in the next year?

Besides, the farming methods of the ancients were relatively backward, and the grain yield of cultivated land was generally not high, but what about the places where locusts visited and the crops were gone? In order to eliminate locusts, the ancients also used many methods, among which eating locusts was one of the methods. In the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, it was recorded that in the summer of the first year of Zhenyuan, locusts were rampant in Guanzhong, and refugees caught locusts and steamed them. In the autumn of the first year of Xingyuan, there was a drought in Guanfu, and the crops were eaten up. The people also caught them and steamed them and burned them to save food.

China belonged to a self-sufficient agricultural society in ancient times, and the development of agriculture was limited by the weather. In ancient times, the ancients were most afraid of encountering the last three disasters, namely, drought, flood and locust plague. Once one of the three disasters occurred, it was bound to bring great impact on agricultural production. Take the plague of locusts as an example.

A single locust does not pose any threat, even a child can be easily killed, but if swarms of locusts gather together, it will be a disaster. The so-called locusts cross the border and nothing grows. Swarms of locusts can devour all edible plants, and crops are naturally doomed.

once the crops are destroyed, the crops may not be harvested, which will make farmers lose the food source on which they depend, and then lead to widespread famine. Locusts can be eaten, such as the eighteen eccentrics in Yunnan, one of which is "grasshoppers as a kind of snacks", and the grasshoppers here are what we often call locusts.

So, when there was a plague of locusts in ancient times, countless people starved to death. Why didn't people eat locusts, but chewed the bark to satisfy their hunger?

first, the subconscious mind. In the eyes of the ancients, locusts were divine insects sent by heaven to punish the monarch, and they could not be eaten. Moreover, when the locust plague occurred, locusts appeared in droves, and locusts were everywhere. At this time, people were afraid to catch locusts. Even those who are courageous often can't catch much because of the simple tools, but they are accidentally eaten by swarms of locusts. Thus, the ancients subconsciously thought that locusts could not be eaten.

second, I don't know how to eat. Now the most common way to eat locusts is to fry them in oil, and then sprinkle them with sesame oil, pepper, etc., which is a very delicious dish. But for the ancients, especially ordinary people, oil is a luxury, and you can't eat it several times a year, let alone "waste" such precious things on locusts. And if you don't use oil, sesame oil, pepper and other seasonings, the locust food made in this way will be difficult to eat, or even impossible to eat at all.

thirdly, locusts cannot be used as staple food. There are many people who eat insects now, but almost no one takes locusts as their staple food. In ancient times, even though people had advanced locust-catching artifacts and mastered many cooking methods about locusts, they could only eat locusts for a few days at most. In ancient times, locusts mainly occurred in summer and autumn, when locusts destroyed crops. From the time when crops were destroyed to the next spring, at least there were several months. It was impossible for the ancients to catch locusts every day in these months, let alone eat locusts every day.

You know, locusts stay in one place for a few days at most before they go to the next place, so people can only get enough food and clothing for a short time. With the passage of time, the locusts left, the food was gone, and the crops were gone. At this time, only the bark was chewed. When the bark was chewed up, famine occurred, followed by social unrest. This shows that the locust plague was devastating to ancient times.

In short, it's not that the ancients didn't want to eat locusts, but that they couldn't catch them, and they didn't know how to eat them if they caught them, let alone eat them every day. At this time, many people had to chew bark and eat Guanyin soil in order to survive, and even countless people starved to death. The disasters caused by locusts have been recorded in history. In ancient times, the serious consequences of locust plague, the confusion of its causes, the rapid coming and going, and the ineffectiveness of governance made people talk about locusts. This is a natural phenomenon. Because people can't do anything, they often add unnatural factors, which are full of superstition. They think that the locust god is punishing human beings. Only when they pray with trepidation, they dare not offend, let alone eat! A locust plague has serious consequences

When there is a flood, there is barely a harvest in a higher place;

during the drought, crops can basically be harvested in places with a little depression.

It's different when there are locusts. No matter how high the hills are or how low the valleys are, all crops, including leaves, are swept away wherever they go. Therefore, after the locust plague, people didn't even eat leaves, but only ate bark, and the consequences were serious. Second, the causes are confusing

In the past, science was not developed, and people knew little about the causes of locust plague, and they didn't know the conditions for locust eggs to hatch, so they needed to be in a dry environment with humidity less than 5%. Therefore, in the face of the locust plague once in a few years or even decades, people can't understand why so many locusts are born at once, and they overlap with the drought. It seems that the gods punish the ordinary people, and naturally they are attached to the divine power, and fear arises spontaneously. For example, this year's locust plague in Africa, at its worst, formed a locust belt more than 6 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide in eastern Africa, and some people in the local countryside still think it was caused by divine power. Three come and go quickly

The food intake of a single locust is limited. Hundreds of millions of locusts appear at the same time, and the food they eat is an amazing astronomical figure. The crops, grass and even leaves in a place are limited, so the locust army needs to keep changing places, otherwise it will starve to death. Therefore, the locust army came and went in a hurry.

I heard from an old man in my old family that there was a locust plague one year, and it seemed that a dark cloud floated from the western horizon, and people were preparing rain-proof equipment. When they came to the front, people realized that there was a locust plague. They could only watch the locusts eat all the edible crops and leaves, and they wanted to cry without tears. There was nothing they could do! Iv. ineffectiveness of control

Before, there was no scientific means to control locusts, and it was no different from a drop in the bucket to rely solely on manpower, so it was difficult to achieve results in control, which further encouraged theism. Since it is divine power, human beings are definitely no match, so how dare they eat locusts, locusts and locusts? As long as you don't eat me, I won't eat you! With the development of science and technology, human beings have mastered the technology of eliminating locusts, so only in some underdeveloped areas, locust plagues will appear from time to time, but in developed countries and regions, it is basically difficult to form a climate for locust plagues, and the general trend of locust plagues has gone!

In ancient times, people even ate bark when they were hungry, so they shouldn't be picky about food and not eat locusts. It's that locusts are too fast to stay in one place for a long time. People have limited tools and can't catch many in a short time. Even if they catch some, it's hard to keep them for a long time.

In fact, locusts taste good. I forgot which city I was in when I traveled before. There were fried locusts in a scenic spot, so I didn't dare to try.

later, I remember that it seems that my sister gave me some, and it was also a gift from my friend.