The first is the staple food of the Western Zhou Dynasty, because the territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty is also quite vast, and the eating habits of each region will be more or less different. There were six regions in the Western Zhou Dynasty, namely, Zhou Zong District, Chengzhou District, Tang Wei District, Zhongyuan District, Qilu District and Er 'nan District. In fact, in Zhou Zong and Tang Wei, people mainly eat a kind of grain called "millet", which is also a kind of "grain". At that time, it was also a precious staple food, which was generally eaten by people with status. Besides "millet", there is also a staple food called "millet", but compared with "millet", the taste of "millet" is much stronger. For Zhongyuan, people here generally eat wheat, and of course a small number of people eat "millet". There is no relevant staple food record in historical documents for Er 'nan area. It is said that there may be rice, but the scale is not particularly large.
Then there is the non-staple food of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In fact, the non-staple food in this period mainly includes meat, vegetables and fruits. At that time, the source of meat was mainly domestic, of course, game and aquatic products also had a certain proportion. Meat is mainly cattle, sheep, dogs, chickens, ducks and so on. The aquatic products are mainly fish and shrimp. For vegetables in non-staple food, mainly leeks, celery, bitter vegetables, shepherd's purse, leeks and so on. It can be seen that the Western Zhou Dynasty still attached great importance to diet. For the fruits in non-staple food, mainly peaches, plums, plums, apricots, dates and other fruits, these fruits are all planted in orchards, which are relatively easy to obtain and affordable for ordinary people. For example, it is recorded in the Book of Songs Feng Weiyuan has peaches: "There are peaches in the garden, which is actually a dish." It can be seen that fruits of ordinary people were very common at that time.
In short, the diet of the Western Zhou Dynasty is not single, and it is generally divided into staple food and non-staple food. Although people's living standards were not high during this period, their diet was still very rich.