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Why Chinese people like to eat pork

1. Eating pork is not a Chinese tradition, at least not until the Ming Dynasty. Although China was an early pig-raising country, not many people ate pork before the Ming Dynasty; the Chinese tradition was to eat mutton.

2. After the Ming Dynasty, Chinese people became accustomed to eating pork because of the large increase in the population, the pasture suitable for raising sheep is less, unable to meet the need for meat, and the only other animal is the pig is more meat and good to raise, so after the Ming Dynasty, pork became the main meat of the Chinese people.

3, foreigners are not just eating beef, the supermarket pork is not less than beef.