Confucianism disrupts the law with literature, and chivalry violates the law with martial arts.

Since they are all traveling around the world, killing people and stealing goods, eating some beef is nothing.

But it doesn’t make sense. With the status of cattle farming in ancient times, where does the beef come from in ordinary small restaurants? It can only be said that for the needs of the plot, these restaurants are not opened for ordinary people, but are specially prepared for heroes. Haha.

In fact, there are not many martial arts novels that specifically talk about beef. I just remember that in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", at the Beggar Clan Heroes Conference, the Wu brothers deliberately ran to toast in order to make Yang Guo look bad, but Yang Guo tricked them and their fingers were dripping with juice.

of beef.

Another example is a group of Mongolian masters competing for a piece of beef at the dinner table, only to be snatched away by an old naughty boy.

However, it was already the beginning of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the Beggar Clan was not an ordinary family. It was natural for Mongolians to eat beef. At that time, eating beef was actually not against the law.

The most famous novel about beef is "Water Margin". However, what impressed me most about Water Margin was not the eating of beef, but the various plots of cannibalism and human meat shops. Moreover, when mentioned in the novel, it was like eating a pig.

The mouth of sheep is so casual. Since human flesh can be eaten, beef is nothing.

Laws can restrict ordinary people, but they are ineffective against heroes.

The scariest thing in Water Margin is the cannibalism of human flesh. There are detailed descriptions of Sun Erniang's butcher shop and the reenactment of Li Kui cutting meat and Huang Wenbing roasting and eating it. There are also many places that are understated and careless.

For example, Zhu Gui, who opened a hotel to gather information, casually told Lin Chong that I opened a hotel and let anyone with no money go. I charmed those with money to seize their wealth. I picked and killed the unlucky ones and made slices of lean meat.

Fat to light the lamp.

Another example is Wang Ying's group of mountain bandits, who eat people's hearts and pay attention to pouring cold water on them immediately after taking the hearts, so that they are crispy.

Another example is when Li Kui killed Huang Wenbing, and his heart and soul made sobering soup. At that time, more than 30 heroes from Song, Jiang, and Chao Gai were waiting to celebrate, and they probably drank the soup. There is an ancient saying that it was the Han Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou were cannibals.

, it was done under the pressure of natural and man-made disasters, but many heroes in the Water Margin, in the prosperous Northern Song Dynasty, could eat beef at will, but they preferred human meat.

This kind of description can only be said to be Shi Naian's bad taste.

It is precisely because of Shi Naian's many vile descriptions that many people criticize the heroes of Water Margin.

However, I think this way of writing is more in line with the character setting. Originally, most of the predecessors of the heroes of Water Margin were a group of unemployed people and petty officials. They only cared about personal happiness or fame, and did not have a high level of ideological awareness.

Ordinary people would be satisfied with meat if they only eat pork, but how can a hero be satisfied if he only eats pigs and sheep? He needs to eat a lot of beef to show his ability and heroism, and when paired with a bit of human meat, it is even more shocking.