What food is there in the Qin Dynasty?

The most common staple food in the Qin Dynasty is "five grains", and we often say that the five grains are rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice. In the Qin Dynasty, rice was mainly used to make wine. Although wheat was also planted at that time, pasta did not appear because there was no skill to grind wheat into flour. At that time, wheat was either directly steamed into wheat rice or boiled into rice paste, so Qin people were not so interested in wheat.

As for orchids, they don't even pay attention to them. Therefore, the most common food of Qin people is millet, which is millet. In the state of Qin, millet is very abundant and is often used for steaming rice or cooking porridge. Generally, millet porridge is common on people's dining tables, and steamed millet rice is a luxury.

Second, there are abundant fruits and vegetables.

The varieties of vegetables and fruits eaten by Qin people are still very rich. At that time, "five dishes" were popular on the dining table, namely sunflower (winter amaranth), fire color (bean seedling leaves), onion (onion), leek and shallot. Sunflowers and fire colors are rare on the table now, while onions and scallions are mostly used as food or seasoning. Besides, there are sunflowers, gourds and so on.

Qin is rich in stingrays (a wild grape), dates, wild jujubes, mulberries and various melons. It is particularly worth mentioning that "Lu Chunqiu's Biography" records: "In midsummer, I am ashamed of Han Tao." The Han Tao here today is called cherry. Unexpectedly, cherry has become a fruit eaten by Qin people as early as the Qin Dynasty. After talking about so many staple vegetables and fruits, how can we lose meat? Here is a grand introduction to meat food.

Third, not all meat can be eaten.

First of all, in the Qin Dynasty, beef was forbidden to eat. This is not just talk. Cattle is an important tool for farming, and the state attaches great importance to farming, so it is illegal to kill cattle and eat beef casually in the Qin Dynasty.

Then, except beef, mutton is rarely eaten unless it is a well-off family. Common on the table of ordinary people is mainly domestic livestock meat, such as chickens, dogs and pigs. Then there are games on the mountain, much more. Rabbits, wild boars, pheasants, snakes, deer, leopards, etc. Anyone can eat it, as long as it is stunted. In addition, fish is also very common and easy to get.