As for the time of eating, the ancients said that "you should not eat rice from time to time" (see The Analects of Confucius), which means that it is considered a polite behavior to eat when you should not. Due to the lack of food, under special circumstances, we don't eat at mealtimes.
It's kind of a reward. For example, according to Records of Historical Records of Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was very angry when he heard that Liu Bang "wanted to be the king of Guanzhong" and ordered "rewarding soldiers every day" to boost morale.
Generally speaking, eating something and having a rest on the road is called "pinching". Cao Xueqin wrote in A Dream of Red Mansions: "Suddenly Baoyu's page came to ask him to pinch it. Qin Zhongyuan saw Baoyu's horse, rode the saddle cage and went north with Xi's car. ...
In "The Present Situation of Wonders Witnessed in Twenty Years", there is also a sentence: "When I went out of Beijing this time, I saw a poem on the wall, which contained two good sentences". This word has appeared many times in historical masterpieces, especially in Ming and Qing dynasties, which shows that it has become a convention.
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Dietary concept after Han dynasty;
After the Han Dynasty, two meals a day gradually became three meals. And the three meals are divided into breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast, called cooler in Han dynasty, refers to snacks used after getting up and washing in the morning. In the Tang dynasty, cold weapons began to have the name of heart.
"Notes on Neng Gai Zhai" said: "The secular case takes morning food as a snack, which has been said since the Tang Dynasty." Up to now, breakfast is still called breakfast in many areas of our country. Lunch was once called "lunch" or "bento" by the ancients.
When you eat two meals a day, people think that "saints and people plow and eat, and they start with food" (Mencius Teng Wengong). If you eat food, it means the day is over. Today, people often use the word "three meals a day" to express different feelings about time, including those who cherish time.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the social economy was developed, and many folk life terms were derived, among which "striking a fire" was one. At that time, people had three meals a day and each meal had to be cooked with fire. Cooking can only rely on flint, so cooking must be ignited, and ignition must be ignited. Over time, cooking has been called "kindling".
This statement has archaeological basis. In many popular scripts in the Yuan Dynasty, eating is always called "striking a fire", which is proof. It may be a long time ago, or it may be that when roadside restaurants wrote signs, their cultural level was low and they were not clear. It was sharpened when writing.
In fact, the original statement did not mention that eating during travel was completely changed to "pinching" from the middle of Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty.
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