Many rural people like to get up early to cook. Why?

Every time friends from the city come to live in the village, they will ask the same question: "Why do rural people like to get up early and are busy cooking? Is it nothing to do or dripping? " How can I put it? I will talk to you about this topic based on Hua Yaomei's experience of growing up in the countryside.

Rural people like to go to bed early and get up early. Many people get up early and are busy cooking. Personally, I think this is normal, which is closely related to rural eating habits, working hours and farming conditions.

The first reason, I think, is related to the eating habits of rural people. When it comes to eating, people always say "three meals a day", which is the healthiest and normal eating rule and habit at present, but for us rural people, especially in the ethnic mountainous areas where Huayaomei is located, our eating habit is two meals a day, that is, breakfast and dinner.

? According to the habit of normal people having three meals a day, breakfast time is from 7: 00 to 9: 00 in the morning, lunch time is from noon 12 to 1 o, and dinner time is from 6: 00 to 8: 00 in the evening. Rural people lack a breakfast, so the breakfast time is advanced to 10 and the dinner time is at 4 o'clock. In addition, many rural people cook with earthen stoves. Our traditional eating habit is to soak the rice first, then filter out the rice soup and steam the rice, so it takes a long time to cook, so I think it is normal to get up early to cook.

? The second reason, I think, is related to the schedule of rural people. Hard-working, capable and bitter have always been the essence of rural people. As long as I can remember, my grandparents, parents and next-door neighbors seldom sleep in, and our children are not allowed to sleep in. We are required to form the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, which is not only good for our health, but also can keep enough energy and physical strength to do farm work or other things. In addition, our local rural people like to cook with well water, so every day our family will get up early, first fill the water tank, then clean the hospital, and then start cooking with a fire.

? The third reason, I think, is related to the farming situation of rural people. For many years, cultivators have followed the farming custom of "working at sunrise and returning at sunset". Take our mountainous countryside as an example, because most of our villages live on hillsides and hilltops, while farmland or mountains are distributed in valleys and places far away from villages. If you don't eat, you won't be able to work on an empty stomach. Secondly, it is a waste of time to do farm work and go home for dinner. So you choose to get up early to cook, and then go to work when you are full. Some of you will take some cold rice and pickles to the fields to eat. We call it "cold rice".

Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standards and the popularization and application of electronic products, rural people no longer cook with earthen stoves, and they don't get up early to cook. But the good style of working hard, going to bed early and getting up early is still worth learning and inheriting. Do you agree?