History of Chinese Food - Meat Part 1 

Wild sustainable wolf herring(saidou) fish is widely used in the 60s, 70s and 80s.

According to Japanese historical records, they interacted with the Chinese during the Tang dynasty. And stopped coming over once the Tang dynasty collapsed and China entered a period of instability. So that is well within the timeframe of raw fish consumption. What's more interesting, if you know any Japanese, is the first video on this channel about Hokkien. My jaw dropped when I noticed how many Hokkien pronunciations matched Japanese ones. I had a lecturer in Japanese at uni who was chasing this like it was some sort of holy grail. I couldn't help him because they were only teaching Mandarin. Hokkien appears to be the only language that seems to match and how it came about makes sense (people left their areas at the end of the Tang dynasty).

Cattle were traded by the barbarian tribes to the north and west. Not sure when but I do know that the capital of Beijing was sacked during the later Ming or early Ching dynasty by Mongol tribes who were trying to trade to survive but were being ignored by the Chinese bureaucracy. It was covered in a video here on YT.

Glad that you have enjoyed it! The Chinese word for "lao" is 牢 and for "qi min yao shu" it's 齊民要術.

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I found out that in ancient China, 牢 used to mean domesticated animals, 宀 was written as a cage in oracle bone scripts, below 宀 could be 牛or羊. During the 商dynasty, 牢was used as offerings to gods and ancestors, probably that’s why only the nobles and high ranking people can eat. 牛or羊without 宀are hunted wild animals, so peasants could eat them.

I think is because their dietary were not based on religion.

there were, but it was mainly a chinese mahayana buddhist thing which back then, most chinese were traditionally mahayana buddhist with taoist influences. my grandparents before did not eat beef because this was restricted in buddhism

@@xXxSkyViperxXx Native Chinese beliefs and religion has no dietary restrictions.

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 if u dont count buddhism as a chinese religion that is, although chinese buddhism has markedly a lot of taoist and confucian influences compared to the mahayana buddhism in other countries.

@@xXxSkyViperxXx I personally don't consider Buddhism as a Chinese religion.