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What is the origin of cooking?

Cooking is gradually formed through the accumulation of people who have participated in labor practice from generation to generation. After our ancestors invented drilling wood to make fire, they cooked and "burned" the meat that used to be difficult to swallow. Stewed meat is barbecue, so the earliest meat of ancient people is barbecue and grilled fish. People gradually learned to put starch-rich plant seeds and rhizomes in hot ash or burning holes for cooking before eating. These cooked foods can be called the earliest cooked vegetarian food in ancient times.

This is how cooking came into being, but not in the modern sense, because people at that time didn't know how to season. Later, the Su Sha tribe on the east coast invented "boiling seawater into salt", that is, boiling seawater in a ceramic container to make salt. The invention of salt making is a great contribution to human civilized life. People's daily intake of salt can promote the secretion of gastric juice and improve digestive function. After eating salt, people's physique and intelligence are enhanced. Salt has become the most basic condiment for people. With salt, we have a complete concept of cooking and cooking.