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As the saying goes, "there will be locusts after a long drought", and locust plagues have always accompanied the development and replacement of all dynasties. According to the statistics of "The History of China's Famine Relief", the locust plague in the Qin and Han dynasties averaged once a year, the two Song dynasties were years, the Yuan Dynasty was years, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were both years. So many locust plagues have had a non-negligible impact on the lives of the people and even the change of dynasties, so didn't the ancients know that locusts could be eaten?

First of all, the ancient people were superstitious, and when the locust plague was overwhelmingly suppressed, the people at that time had no effective way. It is natural for the people to "deify" this kind of unexplainable catastrophe that cannot be resisted and changed, believing that it is a punishment from heaven. The solution is to worship guardian gods such as the "locust god" to pray for good weather and good weather.

The ancient information was not comprehensible, and this superstition was difficult to completely eliminate, and the locusts were regarded as gods, how could they be eaten?

Secondly, there were too many locusts during the locust plague, and there was no effective means of killing them in ancient times. Therefore, even if you can't eat it all, it is impossible to alleviate the disaster by eating locusts. Locusts do have a high nutritional value and are now one of the delicacies on people's tables.

But don't forget, locusts are insects after all, and there is no essential difference between eating locusts and eating insects in ancient environments. It's not the delicacy we eat in our mouths today, there were very few seasonings in ancient times, and there would be no vegetable oil for frying locusts.

The people were so hungry that they naturally ate everything, including locusts. Li Shimin had eaten locusts, and he had to eat them under all kinds of pressure at that time. In fact, he didn't want to eat it, because eating locusts is easy to get sick, especially locusts that have been dead for a while, and the reason is self-evident.

In ancient times, medical technology was not developed, and there was no way to deal with diseases such as microbial infections.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan once said that locusts can be dried and eaten. But history has not changed anything, only to show that the people actually know that locusts can eat. Although there is a locust plague, in most cases people do not starve to death immediately, because the locust plague lasts for a relatively short time.

It was easy to get through with the food they had stockpiled before, and at this time the people mostly fed pigs and ducks with locusts, because locusts do have high nutritional value, and the livestock that are fed tend to grow quickly.

In the end, the locust plague is only the beginning of the disaster, and the failure to harvest grain grains in the next season is the real cause of starvation. At the beginning, it was said that "there will be locusts after a long drought", which shows that locust plagues are often accompanied by major droughts, and locust plagues follow one after another just after the drought. This was a devastating blow to the people who lived on farming, and in the end of the drought, the locust plague became the last straw that crushed the people.

This is far from a problem that can be solved by eating locusts, and can only rely on the food that has been hoarded before.

The ancients knew that locusts could eat, and in some places they really fed on locusts when they encountered locust plagues. If it weren't for a large-scale catastrophe, or if the government of the court was particularly chaotic, there would not have been a starvation of countless people. Otherwise, with this frequency of locust plagues, there will not be enough people to die.

In the face of large-scale natural and man-made disasters, locust plagues are often not the culprits of death. Long-term droughts and other disasters that have a greater impact and last longer are the culprits, and locust plagues are often just the last straw that overwhelms the people.

Locusts can be eaten, the ancients may also know that locusts can be eaten, but they can't only eat locusts forever, crops will be wiped out instantly when they encounter locust plagues, and the ancients have no better way to eliminate large areas of locusts.

Locusts are not poisonous if they are not dispatched en masse. If locusts fly in groups, they will produce toxins. The ancients knew about it, so they couldn't eat locusts.

First of all, locusts fly very fast and are difficult to catch. Secondly, locusts can be stored for several months when they are salted, and they will not last for the next year, and salt was very expensive at that time, and ordinary people could not afford to eat it. In the end, the people at that time thought that the locusts were sent down from heaven and did not dare to catch them.

Because locusts can be used as game, but they really cannot be used as food for subsistence.

Basically, after eating a wave in this place and leaving, you won't be able to catch these locusts again.

Because it could not be caught, and the appearance of locusts in that era was very sudden, the people were often caught off guard.

Locusts flew away quickly after damaging crops, and it was difficult to catch locusts in those days.

Because there are so many locusts, they run away after eating their crops and are very difficult to catch.

Because it is polluted, and people can't eat indiscriminately, otherwise they will die.

Not everyone is Tang Taizong, and most emperors encounter locust plagues, and their basic approach is to sacrifice and issue a guilty edict to admit their mistakes to God, and they don't want to prevent locust plagues and provide relief to locust plagues.

But in the ancient times when resources were scarce, there were not so many spices for people to use, so the ancient people encountered locusts after a simple roast to eat, or even eat raw, think about that kind of sourness can not stand it, we now have to cherish our own life, because of the improvement of living standards, even locusts can be made into the way I love to eat, and there is no need to experience the famine era that the people need to experience in ancient times.

At that time, people thought that locusts had no meat, and naturally did not think that they were edible, so there was no way to do it.

Everyone knew that locusts could be eaten, but at that time there was a fear of them, so they didn't eat them.

I may not know that locusts can be eaten, but I tried to eat locusts later, and found that the taste is not bad. Everyone has gradually gotten used to eating locusts, and this has become a delicacy.