People in modern society are generally used to having three meals in the morning, noon and evening. So did ancient people eat three meals a day like modern people?

In fact, before the Qin and Han Dynasties, people only ate two meals a day. At that time, due to the underdevelopment of agriculture, food was limited. Ancient Mozi? Miscellaneous guard records that soldiers eat two meals a day, and the food intake is divided into five grades.

Before the Qin and Han dynasties, the time of eating was also very particular. The first meal was called? Chao Shi? Have a meal when the sun travels to the southeast. The second meal is called? Food? It's about four o'clock in the afternoon.

After the Han Dynasty, two meals a day became three or four meals a day. Moreover, three meals have begun to be divided into early, middle and late meals. Breakfast, called cold utensils in Han dynasty, refers to the snacks used after getting up and washing in the morning. In the Tang Dynasty, cold was somewhat similar to dim sum. The ancient book "Can change Zhai Man Lu" records:? Secular custom takes snacks in the morning as snacks, which has been said since the Tang Dynasty? . Up to now, we also call breakfast breakfast and lunch in many places, and the ancients called it lunch or lunch.

During the Song Dynasty, three meals a day were implemented, but most people in the Song Dynasty scrimped and saved and did not eat lunch. Therefore, the catering industry in the Song Dynasty was naturally divided into three factions. One is a vendor who only sells breakfast, and the other is a food shop, which only sells dinner. The last school is the restaurant, which sells breakfast, dinner and yellow wine. Is there anyone for lunch? Yes, but very few. The most common thing is that big restaurants have long business hours and are open until noon. Therefore, people sometimes watch historical TV dramas, and at noon, people in the Song Dynasty get together for dinner, which is wrong.

I heard that Europeans used to eat twice a day. For example, in the glorious Greek era, citizens used to eat lunch and dinner instead of breakfast, and they missed some young people who stayed up late and got up late in modern times. There is also the Victorian era in Britain, where workers used to eat breakfast and dinner instead of lunch, much like the frugal civilians in the Song Dynasty.

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