Today, let's learn what people's diet was like in ancient times. The formation law of people's daily diet was probably in the pre-Qin period. At this time, people usually only eat two meals a day, which are called "morning food" and "tonic food". "Morning food" is around nine o'clock in the morning, and "supplementary food" is around four o'clock in the afternoon. The so-called food supplement, that is, leftovers, was because the material level at that time was very low and cooking was difficult. The ancients often cooked a meal twice.
The staple food is five grains, among which rice and wheat are very small because of the limitation of growth conditions and production technology, which can basically be said to be exclusive to nobles. Meng Haoran's poems include "preparing me chicken and rice, old friend, you entertain me at your farm", which refers to this sticky yellow rice, which is more delicious than corn, but its yield is low, so it cannot be used as the daily food of ordinary people.
Ordinary people mostly eat corn, but don't think that this kind of food is also delicious. In ancient times, because of the low level of material and various technologies, ordinary grains could not be ground into powder, and they were directly cooked by grain, and there was no seasoning. In ancient times, salt was quite expensive and was eaten directly after the food was cooked.
In ancient times, there were vegetables, such as sunflower, shepherd's purse, bamboo shoots and horseshoe vegetables. These seem to be all right, but don't forget the ancient cooking methods, such as sunflower, which is sticky after being boiled in water ... The taste is definitely not good, probably just like modern people grabbing weeds from the roadside and throwing them into the pot.
So don't think about going back to ancient times. Isn't it good to be a foodie in modern times? If you are unlucky enough to go to an era when there is no seasoning, you can only cry to death at the dinner table.