"Xiao er, cut two Jin of meat", what animal was the two Jin of meat in the population of Song Dynasty?

Just because we should have "cutting two Jin of meat" as a snack in a small restaurant, what kind of meat should we cut? Song Wu almost got into a fight with a "second child". Thirty-eight times in the Water Margin, Song Wu, Song Jiang and Dai Zong went to drink, so there was a joke. In Jiangzhou Pipa Pavilion, three people open their mouths to drink and eat fish. It is said that Song Wu was the most anxious and thoughtful, and chewed all the fishbones together, but only "soft meat" (fish) was not enough to drink from beginning to end, so a big plate was needed anyway. So the fish is almost eaten, and Song Jiang is called Xiaoer: beef was popular in the Song Dynasty, followed by beef and mutton, which is very popular now.

People nowadays can eat whatever they want as long as they have money, if the human body allows. It's usually raw pork and beef, and other things like big fish and big meat are also common, which is not unusual at all. However, in ancient times, there were many rules and standards for eating meat. In the pre-Qin period, Zhou Li asked people with different real identities to eat different kinds of meat, and the king could eat any kind of meat. Liehou eats mutton, Qing eats beef, doctors eat pork and scholars eat fish. Thousands of families eat only vegetables instead of meat.

It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that the shackles of eating meat were diluted due to the collapse of rituals. Everyone just needs to have standards and eat whatever meat they want. At that time, because of the hegemony, there were many buffaloes among the princes, so it was common to eat mutton. From the Three Kingdoms to the early Western Han Dynasty, it was common to eat mutton, beef and raw pork. It must be pointed out that cows were disciplined and maintained at that time, such as buffalo horns, sheep tendons and leather products. It was supposed to be handed in, but beef and mutton, as a by-product, can be taken and bought at will, and it is not more expensive than beef and mutton and other meat foods.

In fact, if we compare the historical time of the Song Dynasty, this kind of scene really has life material. Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the categories of meat products traded in the Song Dynasty were significantly higher. In Su Shi's words, it is the "Shangpai" who lived in the rural areas of the Song Dynasty, and there is also wine and meat every day. In the cities of Song Dynasty, catering consumption was also very popular. In Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, there are only 72 famous large and medium-sized hotels, which are called the "seventy-two main halls". Most of them have a 100-foot-long main corridor. The larger Fan Lou is three stories high and can accommodate more than 1,000 customers. There are tens of thousands of small and medium-sized "foot shops" with all kinds of special snacks.