Ying Zheng, the first emperor in China's ancient history, had a diet that was no match for that of the current middle class, who can eat almost all the world's food specialties as long as they have money in their pockets.

Ying Zheng, on the other hand, was so poor that he had never even seen grapes or pomegranates, and had to wait for a few hundred years until the Western Regions were opened up under Liu Che, the Han Dynasty's first emperor.

The other tropical fruits such as lychee and cinnamon in the south of the country were under Ying Zheng's jurisdiction, but the postal station was not as developed as in the Tang Dynasty, so the 800-mile expedited service was also unhelpful.

The fruits that Ying Zheng could eat were only pears, chestnuts, jujubes, apricots, persimmons, plums, peaches, tangerines, oranges and other fruits.

Additionally, it was very difficult for Ying Zheng to eat a mouthful of beef all year round. According to the Qin Law, even if a plow ox is thinned by one inch, the farmer who looks after the ox will have to beat his buttocks for ten times, and whoever dares to eat the ox will be directly killed. Although the upper class can eat, but the cow is more agricultural and transportation, just eat a head, have to lose a lot of money. As a substitute, people mainly ate pigs and chickens, while lamb was regarded as a delicacy. It was usually served as imperial food and rewarded to meritorious officials. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, at the end of each year, a lamb was rewarded to the doctor.

It is also worth mentioning that people loved to eat dog meat at that time, and Fan Kuai, the famous dog-slayer, is a typical story of the little man's comeback.

But don't worry about Ying Zheng, in the Qin Dynasty, there were a lot of wild animals, and the people had nothing to do with hunting in the mountains to improve their diets, and deer, wild boar and wolves were all delicious delicacies on the tip of the tongue of the Qianshou people.

As the upper class, the segment is naturally high. What bears, tigers, leopards, scarlets, monkeys are included in the list of gourmet food of the aristocrats.

It should be noted that the Qin dynasty's pursuit of meat was a bit different from ours, and they especially loved animal cubs, prizing them for their tenderness.

What Qin Shi Huang didn't eat, that's too much, just from our daily diet.

In the staple food: steamed bread, pancakes have not eaten, dumplings and buns are not. Corn on the cob certainly have not eaten, this thing is native to the Americas, the late Ming Dynasty before the introduction of China. I don't know if groundnuts are considered a staple food, baked sweet potatoes so sweet flavor, Qin Shi Huang must have never eaten, which is also from the Americas.

In fruits: grapes, pomegranates have not eaten, these are the Western Han Dynasty Zhang Qian brought from the Western Regions. Watermelon, bananas are also not available, these two are only after the Tang Dynasty. Even the most common apples are not available, this is a recent introduction to China.

As for pineapple, pineapple, mango certainly do not have, pineapple is native to Brazil, mango from India, said to be the Tang monk to fetch the scriptures brought by hand. Of course there are many more, only these are more common in modern times.

Vegetables: There are even more vegetables, and the ones we eat in the pre-Qin period are almost completely different from the ones we eat now.

First of all, my favorite potato, Qin Shi Huang have not seen, let alone eat, eggplant cucumber is not, China's earliest record of eggplant is the Western Jin Dynasty, of course, this did not record does not mean that there is no, may have eaten, but the cucumber is not. Like cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, these are also not.