Sushi, oden, Japanese fried pork cutlets, sashimi, tempura, sukiyaki, Tangyang chicken...Japanese food is also diverse and colorful, but strangely, there are not many good ones in Japan.

Eat mutton.

When it comes to eating meat, the most impressive thing about Japan is probably the most expensive and delicious beef in the world: "Kobe beef", but when it comes to mutton, it seems that there is no impression.

In fact, not only do Japan not eat much mutton, they have only eaten pork and beef for about 150 years.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan actually had a 1,200-year history of "meat ban."

According to archaeological excavations, the main meat foods in Japan at that time were elk and wild boar, as well as more than 60 kinds of mammals including bears, monkeys, and foxes.

The main method at that time was to eat it raw, and later the method of roasting, roasting, and cooking was introduced.

By the Yayoi period (300 B.C. - 250 A.D.), farming techniques from the Korean Peninsula were introduced to the islands, and Japan entered an era in which rice was the main food ingredient. The prohibition of "no meat" largely affected Japan's height.

According to archaeological data, before the ban on meat, the average height of Japanese adult men was 163cm, but it dropped to 155cm in the Edo period more than a thousand years later.

Influenced by European influences, the Meiji authorities believed that Westerners were tall because they ate beef and drank milk, so they abandoned the ban on meat and initially encouraged people to eat meat, especially beef.

However, more than 1,200 years of banning meat have made the Japanese people quite disgusted with the smell of meat. In the end, Emperor Meiji personally tried beef and reported it to the whole country, which changed the people's view of meat. At the same time, the royal family opened up large-scale land for livestock farms and dairy cows.

In the market, beef was also designated as the diet of the army. Beef hot pot - Sukiyaki (すき焼き) began to appear on the streets of the city. Kobe beef is still synonymous with top-quality beef.