As the saying goes, "Eating fat and thin is better than eating thin and fat". What does that mean?

China has a history of 5,000 years, and has also created a long Chinese culture, which is extensive and profound. Among them, proverbs, as a vein of traditional culture, are summarized by ordinary people through their own life experiences, some are descriptions of folk life, and some are reflections on life. Because it is easy to understand and catchy, it is widely circulated among the people. For example, the older generation often said that "it is better to eat fat and eat thin, but not thin and fat", and what they said was death. Why is this?

Eating fat lean meat instead of lean meat and medium fat pork is the most widely eaten meat in China. Pigs are easy to feed. Whether it is special pig food or leftovers, You Zhu can eat them and gain meat. Therefore, in the early years of material shortage, pork became the first choice for many people to eat meat. Even now, China people have become the country that consumes the most pork every year in the world, surpassing the second place. We all know that pigs will grow fat and have lean meat, and fat and thin are delicious together. However, many people in modern times think that fat meat is greasy, while lean meat is delicious and slim, so they prefer to choose lean meat. In the early days, people were more willing to eat fat. The reasons should be analyzed in combination with the historical background.

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Mainly because in the early days, people were short of material resources, and many people could not even guarantee food and clothing, so eating meat itself was a very extravagant thing, so it was not so picky, and in terms of taste, fat meat was more satisfying than lean meat; In terms of calories, eating a catty of fat meat is more resistant to hunger than eating a catty of lean meat. This is because there is more fat in fat and more oil and water. There is a folk saying that "it is possible to be in oil and water, but strength is in salt", which makes sense. If you don't supplement oil and water for a long time, then people's bodies are likely to have no energy because of lack of some nutrients, which is one reason why the ancients like fat meat.

Furthermore, we all know that pork can not only be eaten, but also refined. The fatter lard is, the more oily it is. When people put less fat pork in cooking, oil can save a lot, while lean meat is different. The more fried, the more dry it is, and there is no oil and water. It is precisely because of the above two reasons that there is a saying that "it is better to eat fat than to eat thin, not to eat thin and not to eat fat".

Many old people in rural areas still want to see pork. Buying pork depends on whether the meat is fat or not, and pork that is not fat will not be bought. Moreover, there is also a set of criteria for judging whether pork is fat or not: judging whether pork is fat or not depends on "finger fat", in which "finger fat" refers to fat meat, and "finger fat" measures the width of fat meat in a lifetime with the width of fingers, one refers to lean meat, the other refers to medium meat and the third refers to fat meat. In the eyes of the elderly, try not to buy pork under two fingers. This kind of meat is not delicious. Buying pork weighing more than three fingers is the first-class meat.

However, with the development of the times, people's living standards are getting better and better. Pork is not a very rare food, so people may not choose fat meat. More people will think that fat is high in fat, and eating too much is bad for people's health, so people prefer lean meat, which is much more expensive than fat.

Bian Xiao has something to say: In fact, in ancient times, not only pork should choose fat meat, but other meats were also favored by the ancients. There is a saying in the Book of Rites that there is a right fin in winter and a right fin in summer, which means that the fat in the belly of fish is the most in winter, while the fat in the back of fish is the most in summer. Therefore, the belly of the fish should face the guests in winter and the back of the fish should face the guests in summer. It can be seen that the status of fat meat must be very high, otherwise it will not be used to respect guests, so the fat meat on the table of the ancients became a symbol of respecting friendship and hospitality, and also a symbol of a better life.