The Japanese have a particularly strong love for food. Whether it is sushi, oden, sashimi, etc., there are many types of Japanese food. However, some people have found that the Japanese do not seem to like mutton that much, which is different from us Chinese.

Chinese people especially like to gather their families together to eat mutton-shabu-shabu in winter, or grilled lamb kebabs in summer. They like sheep almost as much as pigs and cattle, but why don’t Japanese people like to eat mutton?

In fact, Japanese people also love meat very much. For example, they especially love Kobe beef, the most delicious and expensive beef in the world, but they are much weaker when it comes to eating mutton.

The Japanese have been eating pork and beef for more than 150 years, but who would have thought that before the Meiji Restoration, they had a 1,200-year history of banning meat.

During the Jomon period, their society was already in the early stages of the Neolithic Age, and their main way of survival was hunting. Therefore, they did not pursue much food at that time. As long as they could fill their stomachs, they were hardly picky about prey.

Archaeological excavations show that the main meat eaten in Japan at that time was wild boars, bears, foxes and other mammals. The cooking methods at that time were very simple, so most of them were eaten raw. Later, cooking methods such as barbecue and boiling were gradually introduced.

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During the Yayoi period, as farming technology was gradually introduced, Japan began to use rice as the main food ingredient.

With the advancement of technology, cattle and sheep and other livestock industries came to Japan, but the livestock industry in Japan did not develop well.

Cattle are mainly used for plowing, horses are mainly used for travel, but sheep seem to have no use. This has also led to many Japanese people having almost never seen sheep. In their impression, among those zodiac signs,

Sheep should be like dragons, they are both made up by people.

The history of the Japanese ban on meat has a certain relationship with Buddhism. At that time, Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the middle of the 6th century. At that time, monks observed the precepts and regarded not eating meat as religious knowledge. Even Japan's own Shintoism also

The belief that killing is unclean and blood is dirty is the same idea as Buddhism, and both religions laid the foundation for entry.

Later, Emperor Tenmu began to explicitly prohibit killing and eating meat, so Japan officially entered the Entering Era and it lasted for 1,200 years. Although the effect was not very good at the beginning, after two edicts prohibiting killing were issued, meat gradually disappeared from Japanese tables.

Retreat.

At that time, people generally believed that eating meat was reckless and cruel.

Later, when it developed into the Heian period, people did not comply with the instructions to enter. Although there were no livestock to eat, many people still enjoyed the delicious food through hunting.

Just because of the meat ban, it has a great impact on the height of Japanese people.

According to data, before the entry order was issued, the average height of Japanese men was 1.63 meters, but after 1000, their average height dropped to 1.55 meters.

During the Meiji period, due to the influence of European and American trends, people gradually began to accept eating meat, and they also began to encourage people to eat beef.

But they don’t eat mutton because it is not as popular as beef. Although goats and sheep have entered Japan very early, the ban on entry has hindered the advancement of the livestock industry. In addition, Japan’s weather and geographical conditions have caused them to

Not suitable for large-scale sheep raising.

Moreover, the mutton smell is unacceptable to Japanese people.