Qin Shi Huang s food is too simple, right?

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-29

Tinder Project Do you think the emperors in the TV series are all fine clothes and food? In fact, Qin Shi Huang's daily food is very simple, and it is not a delicacy at all, because Qin Shi Huang can't even eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Not to mention carrots, eggplants, potatoes, and pumpkins, all of which were not available in the Qin Dynasty until a thousand or two thousand years later.

Modern people are not spicy, and Qin Shi Huang has never even seen chili peppers. Chili pepper originated in the Americas, and was introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was only used as an ornamental bonsai at the beginning, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Sichuan and Chongqing began to eat spicy on a large scale. The coriander that we can eat now is not available in the Qin Dynasty, and when people meet and greet each other, a mouth is estimated to be a taste of leek and green onions, because their seasoning is only green onions and leeks. Fruits were also scarce at that time, and now there are no common grapes and bananas, because grapes were brought back from the initial Western Regions during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the place where the bananas were grown was too far away from the palace, and they didn't know what to rot on the table of Qin Shi Huang. In addition, snacks such as melon seeds and walnuts were also available in the Han Dynasty, and Qin Shi Huang had to wait until the middle of the Han Dynasty to eat a piece of tofu.

However, there are still a lot of meat dishes on the whole table, pigs, dogs, sheep, chickens, ducks, fish, etc., and Qin Shi Huang's favorite food is venison. But there is only one thing, even if it cries hungry, it must not be eaten, and that is beef. In ancient times, ploughing cattle were the main force of agricultural production, and the Qin and Han dynasties vigorously protected ploughing cattle, and it was illegal to eat cattle, so don't travel to the Qin Dynasty, follow me, and take you to learn more and more interesting historical stories.

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