It was similar to what we have now, with food boxes delivered to our homes by dedicated people, but I think those who could afford takeout at that time, or those who needed takeout, were generally wealthy families.

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a famous work by Zhang Zeduan, which depicts the customs and customs of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Since it is the customs and customs of the Northern Song Dynasty, all walks of life must be represented in the painting. There are people with eyes like microscopes who discovered a very familiar profession in the painting that modern people basically cannot do without? Takeaway?

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The life of ancient people was not as old-fashioned as we imagine, especially during the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was very fashionable.

Because dynasties such as the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty had frequent foreign trade before, many delicacies were introduced.

The accumulation of these delicacies led to earth-shaking changes in the Song Dynasty, so the catering industry in the Song Dynasty was very developed.

Restaurants abound. Now that you have opened a restaurant, satisfying your guests is the most important thing.

So any restaurant that can survive must have its own unique dishes.

Because in a place like the hotel, it can be said that there are people from all walks of life.

And some people from wealthy families, maintaining their own status, are not willing to sit and eat with those people.

Especially in the Song Dynasty, under the intervention of mainstream thinking, women were not allowed to show up casually, so what would they do if they suddenly became hungry for food from a restaurant.

In this way, the ancient takeout came into being.

So, what did takeout look like in ancient times?

In fact, it's not much different from what we have now. The waiter in the restaurant, or the servant of the family who ordered the takeout, takes the food box and puts the prepared dishes into the food box and delivers it to the people who order the food.

Because a long time ago, the ancients discovered that placing food in a box and filling it with cotton or something else could keep its temperature constant.

The invention of the food box can be traced back to the Neolithic Age.

Finally, let’s throw in a twist: There are also specialties selling homemade meals, such as meat soup, hoof soup, spicy fish soup, chicken soup, spicy fish soup, pork bone soup, mixed soup, and butterfly noodles.

, fried pork, big boiled shrimp and other butterfly noodles, as well as fried meat, fried liver, frozen fish, frozen fish, frozen meat, fried duck, fried fish, vinegar fish, etc. to go with rice.

It also specializes in blood-soaked noodles, pork and vegetable noodles, bamboo shoot noodles, vegetarian bone noodles, and vegetarian bamboo shoot rice.

There are also restaurants that sell vegetable soup, and they also sell fried tofu, fried fish, fried fish, grilled vegetables, and fried eggplant. Just say, are you hungry?