What did the nomads of ancient China mainly eat? Was it meat three times a day?

Exactly speaking, meat is certainly the main food of the nomads in ancient China, but not three times a day are meat, there are a lot of supplementary food as a supplement!

One, meat was the staple food of nomads

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Take the Mongols, who once established a great empire spanning the Eurasian continent, for example, whose diet also featured meat as a staple food. Song man Peng Ya in the "Black Tartar Affairs Strategy" recorded that the Mongols "eat meat but not grain. Hunting and get, said rabbit, said deer, said wild swine, said stubborn sheep, said yellow sheep, said wild horses, said the river source of fish. Shepherd and butchers, to sheep as often, cattle second.

Not a big feast, not punishment horse. Fire the eighteen or nineteen, tripod cooking twelve or thirteen. Drink, horse milk and sheep and cattle cheese. Its flavor salt one only.

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"A simple understanding is that most of the time the Mongolians eat meat, some of which are obtained by hunting, and some are slaughtering their own livestock, and to cattle, sheep and other large animals, unless large banquets will kill the horse, eighty or ninety percent of the meat is fire-roasted, one percent of the twenty percent of the way will be used to cook cooked, and drink the It is horse milk and cow and sheep cheese, but all can not be separated from the salt as a flavoring agent.

Additionally, the "Secret History of Mongolia" recorded that the holy lord Genghis Khan obtained the world, feasted on the merit of the whole sheep to celebrate. These are enough to show that meat is undoubtedly the staple food of ancient nomads.

Two, meat outside of the supplementary food is also essential

While the Mongols to meat, milk as the main food, Zhao Gong in the "Mongolia Tartar Preparation Record" recorded that the Mongolian diet, "there are one or two places out of the black corn, he also boiled for the solution of porridge," indicating that the Mongolian diet contains a certain percentage of non-meat food. In 1221 A.D., the Italians were the first to use the food. In 1221 AD, Italian Pope Innocent IV, mission to Mongolia, in his "mission to Mongolia" recorded that the Mongols "boil millet with water, but because of the thinning of the boil, can only drink but not eat.

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"This is actually what we call porridge today. Mongolia into the Central Plains after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, its dietary structure has changed a lot, the Yuan official Kusui Hui in the "Drinking Meals are about to be" recorded at the time of the Mongols of all kinds of dishes and pasta type of diet, which the proportion of non-meat accounted for thirty percent. Other nomadic people are also meat and vegetables, the upper class aristocrats in the diet of meat food accounted for a much higher proportion than the lower class people, but vegetarian food is an essential part of their diet, the lower class people vegetarian diet is a large proportion of the Tibetan people in the Tibetan region of barley noodles, barley wine; Northwest China's traditional steamed buns are very good examples.

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This is actually very good to understand, a little bit of modern health science people understand, meat and non-meat food with in order to provide the human body with a richer variety of nutritional collocation, more beneficial to the physical and mental health.