In addition to the different sizes of bowls used in urban and rural areas, there are also differences between southern and northern China. Basically, people who go further south eat smaller bowls.

Northeast fried dumpling, a whole is a cauldron.

Another plate of Xinjiang saute spicy chicken

Laiwan Shaanxi spicy noodles

Let's look at the diet in the south:

Shanghai's exquisite dishes

Crystal shrimp dumplings and steamed buns in Guangdong ......

If northerners eat these things from the south, they will definitely say, "Boss, let's start with 10 steamed buns".

I was in the countryside when I was a child. Anyone in the village who has a relative in the county will feel brighter on his face.

Our neighbor's second son (Xiaofeng) is a city man in the eyes of our rural people. I worked in the county more than ten years ago, as if I were a deputy section chief of the county education bureau.

The children in the village want to go to school in the city without borrowing fees, all through his relationship.

He also helped many children in the village when he was in office. He is a man of prestige.

Someone in the village was jealous and joked, "Xiaofeng, I heard from your aunt that I went to the county last time and had a meal at your house." Your bowl is too small for me to eat two bowls of rice. Later, I was embarrassed to eat it. You see, in our country, a big bowl is enough. Now that you are a city dweller, your food is different from that of our rural people. Can you eat enough in one day? " Ha ha ha ha laugh.

Not all of them, of course. It has something to do with the food eaten in every place.

In most places in the north, pasta is eaten, and in the south, vegetables are basically accompanied by rice. You can eat less rice, eat more vegetables and have a balanced nutrition.

Therefore, food determines eating habits.

Anyway, no matter how big or small the bowl is, it is a good bowl to be full!

Using large bowls and small bowls has little to do with rural cities. People who do the same manual labor also use small bowls in rural areas, especially young and middle-aged people and the elderly. If, as some netizens said, large bowls are used in rural areas because of heavy physical labor, how can the elderly in their seventies and eighties explain it? Are you still engaged in manual labor? Is there no manual labor in the city? In cities, some jobs are more tiring than farming, and time is stuck. Unlike sitting in the field for a long rest when you are tired of farming, many people still use small bowls. On the one hand, I am not used to it, on the other hand, I am not particular about it. Just like some people are used to wearing hats, they don't have to wear them in cold weather or in hot weather. April and May are the comfortable seasons of spring, so many people still wear them. It seems that people who are used to wearing hats are not used to wearing hats. Even though it was cold in March, they were naked. Even if they cover their ears with their hands from time to time, they don't want to wear hats. This explains very well that some people eat in small bowls even if they are hungry. I wonder if there is anything wrong with my explanation. Do you have a spray?

In the middle and late 1980s, Chinese mainland just started to use small bowls. At that time, Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas were popular. It was the first time that I saw people from Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong eating in small bowls, which surprised me. At that time, the line that often appeared was: I want to drink porridge, or do you want to drink porridge, and then the camera was aimed at the small bowl. I also asked my mother, can they eat in such a small bowl? Suitable for children aged three or four. My mother also said in a surprised tone: Haha, by the way, how to use so few small bowls is so funny.

So I think, in the middle and late 1980s, small bowls became popular in Chinese mainland, probably because of the influence of Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas. We think that using small bowls is fashionable, avant-garde, popular, foreign and rustic, so we like to follow the trend very much, and it is easy to forget the tradition, not what is practical, but what is popular? Of course, I'm not saying that porcelain kilns and ceramic factories in Chinese mainland don't produce small bowls. Small bowls have existed since ancient times, and they are often seen in antique markets and Jianbao programs, but they were used by dignitaries and large families at that time. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, the more poor people did not have enough to eat, the more they used big bowls, which were reserved for local tyrants. After the local tyrants and evil gentry were overthrown after liberation, no matter what class, almost all of them ate in big bowls, while sea bowls, big sand bowls and small bowls almost disappeared.

I am a pragmatist, living in poverty since childhood, afraid of not having enough to eat. So I have been reluctant to eat a small bowl, so I have been using a big bowl since I got married. Sometimes I go to my mother's house for dinner, and she knows that I like to use a big bowl, take out the biggest bowl at home, hold a bowl of noodles, or come to a bowl of jiaozi, which is always full. I'd rather eat from a basin than a small bowl. Of course, I can understand that people who eat small meals use small bowls. They eat a small amount of food. Do you have any reason to let people use big bowls? So you should decide according to your appetite and living habits. My family has all kinds of bowls, large, medium and small. My wife is a small eater, so she likes to use small bowls. Once when I was walking in a stall, an old man, who had never bought these things before, was indifferent. This time, he even brought a bunch of bowls to my wife, hoping to make her full of praise. I didn't expect her to say why she bought so many bowls. I don't know? How nice is this color? She said it was too big. She has bought many small bowls and told me not to buy these things again. Ha ha ha ha.

Eat a large bowl and a small bowl.

In fact, this is a habitual problem. At present, this is also the case in my hometown and countryside. Every time I go back, my parents use big bowls to fill their meals. I also asked them. My parents say it's very simple, you don't have to always fill the rice. For example, our parents were born in the fifties and sixties, and they experienced a large collective life and famine. It would be nice to have a full meal then. So try to eat as much as possible when you have food, and gradually form a habit.

Another reason is that many vegetables in rural areas are home-grown, healthy and nutritious. They are delicious and taste better, so they have a good appetite. In the past, eating in the city was just a small bowl, and when I went home, I could eat a big bowl.

Probably because of the smell of home.

This kind of problem is certainly not beyond the understanding of the countryside, and only the countryside can understand it.

Rural people eat big bowls, mainly because of heavy work and light consumption of edible oil, so they eat big bowls. What does an old saying mean (eat three and a half bowls of rice and stay by the field)? It means that you can eat and have the strength to work. It also shows that people are healthy.

Why do city people eat small bowls? It shows that city people work lightly, don't do manual work, eat too much, and are not easy to digest. Again, city people have time to eat. Secondly, city people are rich and always eat snacks and drink tonics, which shows that city people are not hungry.

How big is the difference between rural areas and cities? Suffering is the hardship of people in rural areas and the heavy work. You have to eat more for heavy work. So it explains why rural people and urban people eat with large and small bowls!

In the past, rural work was hard physical labor, sweating like rain. The food is too simple, physical consumption is high, and you eat too much. The big bowl is full of rice, so don't come back to pack it. Small bowls are different. All you have to do is take three bites. Whether it's for yourself or for others, it takes a lot of trouble to make a big bowl. No one saves trouble, not as good as the city people. Many of them are intellectuals and university professors. Eat, I have no appetite. The food in the city is very good, the nutrition is even, the fish, eggs and vegetables are very complete, and the cooking is beautiful. But if they eat, they will take a few bites. It's not bad. It's true. They can't eat it either. He has no physical labor. Obviously, you can't make a big bowl, and you can't fill it with a small bowl. Half a bowl is enough. This is really incredible in the eyes of rural people.

When I was a child, I went to my uncle's house in the county, just in time for breakfast, so I didn't mention it. I ate three bowls of rice and three buns, and I didn't feel full. My uncle's family of four only prepared four steamed buns and four bowls of rice, and my uncle rushed to the street to buy steamed buns. Cousin said that rural dolls eat too much. Now our relatives have met my cousin and joked about how much country dolls eat.

Because rural people work hard and have a heavy workload, this appetite is definitely greater than that of urban people. If you use a small bowl, you rarely serve food back and forth, and it is not absolute to use a large bowl at one time. It's actually just a habit. Personally, I feel that I can't eat enough in a small bowl, so I can eat it in a big bowl. For most people, it is just right to use a small bowl instead of eating.

I have done a lot of work in the past. I can eat half a pot of rice in one meal. Now I live very well, the climate and environment are very comfortable, and there is no need to work hard. So where to eat a big bowl of rice? People who do farm work here can still eat three or four bowls of rice at a meal. A large appetite only means more consumption, which has little to do with the north and the south. Northerners eat more because of the cold.

Rural people are free and easy, generous and true, and have the strength to do manual work when they are full. City people have small bellies, exquisite clothes and light work. Small bowls of rice are full of people, and they don't digest when they eat too much, so they have to dance square dance to disturb the people. This is also the difference between urban and rural areas. ...

The big bowls for eating are mainly in the northern rural areas, and the most typical one is the old bowl in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. Now the old bowl used for mutton buns is smaller than before. In the northern countryside, there are few big bowls for eating, mainly relying on pasta. In the past, rural conditions were difficult, and there was basically no dining table. Kazuhiro Mori Bowl was enough for everyone to eat. By the way, squatting there and putting bowls after dinner also saves time. Another farmer eats a lot, and he can only eat more than a dozen bowls with that small bowl. The trouble is not numbness. I'm a farmer in Shaanxi, and I ate two and a half Jin of jiaozi at most (150), and I took 30 bowls of small bowls in the south. People who are not tired of eating are bored to death. By the way, I am 1.6 meters tall and weigh 60 kilograms.

Let's just say that eating in the countryside is eating. Rice is the staple food, while vegetables are the main food for urban people, supplemented by rice.