In order to dietary safety, New Year's dinner may wish to share meals, China's ancient times have had a split meal system

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In order to dietary safety, New Year's dinner may be split, China's ancient times also had a "split meal system". In fact, meal sharing and meal sharing have always existed in parallel in China, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, meal sharing has been widely existed among the aristocrats. However, compared with the Western table culture, the reasons for the birth of Chinese and Western style meal sharing are completely different. The Western style of meal sharing only became popular at the end of the Renaissance, partly because of the need for dietary hygiene, and partly to emphasize the independence of the individual. The Chinese meal sharing system is a product of the Zhou ritual era, the Zhou ritual on the king, the marquis, the scholar has clear rules for walking, sitting, lying and eating, requiring strict distinction. For example, there are records in the Book of Rites that indicate that the ancient Chinese practiced separate meals not really for hygiene, but to emphasize status.

But compared to the nobility and the commoners, the common people had less opportunity to eat separately. Because of the differences in the amount of food eaten by individuals, the meal sharing system required more cutlery, so in the ancient times of material poverty, meal sharing was a very extravagant way of eating, the family meal would have been enough for three bowls, but now you need nine bowls.

Advantages of split meals

1Split meals can reduce the spread of infectious diseases.

2Split meals control how much each person eats and there is no problem of someone eating too much and someone not getting any.

3Split meals do not have the problem of two people grabbing the same piece of meat.

Disadvantages of split meals

1Split meals have always struck me as a little uninspiring and joyless.

2Some people will eat a portion of a meal and be stuffed, while others will eat the same portion and not feel full.

3 Some people may have trouble with not being able to eat the same thing as others for physical reasons (weight loss, fat loss).