Was it illegal to eat beef in the Qing Dynasty? Did it break the law for the ancients to eat beef

*It is illegal to eat beef in the Qing Dynasty**. The Qing Dynasty was a feudal dynasty established by nomads, and it stands to reason that nomads prefer beef and mutton, but the actual situation is slightly different. According to records, the Manchu people preferred mutton, and the one who liked to eat mutton the most was Huang Taiji.

After the Manchus entered the customs and unified the Central Plains, there was no beef in the imperial family's recipes, and the emperor not only did not eat beef himself, but also forbade other people in the palace to eat beef. Because the Manchus believed that ploughing cattle ploughed the fields for the people, it would be too unkind for people to eat its meat. This habit of the royal family also influenced the people, and the residents of Beijing rarely ate beef, until the death of the Qing Dynasty, beef dishes gradually increased in Beijing and even in the north.

Is it illegal to eat beef?

Social progress, the rise of productivity, does not mean that cattle have entered the recipe, the Han Dynasty can only wait for the cow to be old, can not work, can be slaughtered, Tang and Song dynasties, what kind of cattle can not be slaughtered, only natural death of cattle can eat, until the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing dynasties, cattle are not casually want to eat to eat, and since the law, then eating cattle is a crime, cattle in ancient times that is a national treasure level, want to eat beef, sleep and dream well.

Ordinary people eat against the law, Han people eat against the law, and relatives of the emperor can.

<> "What was the experience of eating beef in ancient times Was it illegal for the ancients to eat beef?"

It is said that it was forbidden to eat beef in ancient times, and it was said in the express regulations that it was illegal to eat beef, whether it was in the Ming Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, the government strictly prohibited the slaughtering and eating of cattle by the people.

Therefore, everyone must not be deceived by Shi Nai'an's Water Margin, especially in the Han Dynasty, cattle such domestic animals cannot be slaughtered, and the law stipulates that whether the cow is sick or old, it cannot be eaten.

In the ancient agricultural society, cattle were a very important production tool, "cattle are the foundation of agriculture and contribute to the world".

As for the strong man in the Water Margin who eats beef, it is also not credible, after all, what the author wants to express is the rebellion and rebellion in the bones of the rulers of that era.

Although it is said that there is a law to protect the cultivated cattle, it cannot be said that the ancients could not eat beef, after all, if the cultivated cattle died of old age or disease, they were also edible, and this kind of natural death was outside the scope of the law Zheng Jilu.

As the saying goes, there is a policy, and there is a response to Xi Naice, in addition to the cattle that died of natural causes and died of illness can be eaten, if there is an accident, you can also get the beef you want to eat, and the government is helpless about this kind of thing.

Therefore, if modern people travel back to ancient times, they can also eat beef.

Judging from ancient historical data, the ancient Chinese court protected cultivated cattle in the form of laws, but it did not completely prohibit people from eating beef, so it is a bit exaggerated to say that the ancients were imprisoned for eating beef.

1. As an important production tool, killing cattle was illegal in ancient times, especially in the Song Dynasty, where agriculture was developed and there was a serious shortage of livestock.

2. According to the Song Penal System:

For all reasons, he killed officials, private horses, and cattle for three years, and camels, mules, and donkeys, minus three, etc., because of the suspicion of avoiding hatred, and **, each with the theory of theft and killing. If the person is disabled and cannot be used, according to this killing method (horses and cattle are still allowed to be sued), those who can be used within 30 days will be reduced by three grades.

The thieves who kill the officials' private horses and cattle, and flow three thousand miles, although the three horses will be pardoned with neighboring states (those who are involved will not be allowed to do so before and after the amnesty); camels, mules, and donkeys, two years' apprenticeship. Those who buy and kill with knowledge of the theft shall each follow the law of killing their own animals.

3. **In **, as soon as the hero opens his mouth when he eats, he says, "Cut two catties of cooked beef!" "Actually, it can't happen. It may be caused by the fact that the ** family does not understand the history.

There is also a possibility that the ** family wants to use this to describe the good man who despises the laws of the imperial court, or that the place where the incident occurred is a remote area, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the implementation of national law is not strict.

Because in ancient times, production and life had to use large livestock for farming, and the main driving force for cattle to plough the fields, in order to protect the peasants' farming security, the state specially formulated laws.

Because it is mainly to raise cultivated cattle, cultivated cattle are an important means of production, and they cannot be killed and eaten casually until they die of old age.

In China's ancient agricultural civilization, it relied heavily on cattle, and cowhide was an indispensable material for making bows, arrows, saddles, etc. Therefore, the state is very dependent on cultivated cattle from agricultural production to the production of national defense materials, so it will stipulate that beef is not allowed.

In ancient China's agrarian society, cattle were the most important labor tools, so in the case of low breeding methods, it was generally stipulated that cattle were not allowed to be slaughtered, and they were not allowed to eat.

Because in ancient times, cattle were very valuable.

People live on heaven, and farming can be said to be the only way for farmers to survive.

And the role of the ox in plowing the land is similar to that of a strong man, and the murder is a crime, and the ox is equivalent to a human being at that time, and it is a crime to kill the cow and eat beef.

Cattle were the most important assistants of the ancients in farming, and without cattle to cultivate, agriculture would not be developed. It is precisely for this reason that the government of various dynasties even used the number of cattle in a place as a yardstick to consider the development of agriculture in a place. Cattle are precious and should not be slaughtered and eaten.

In ancient times, the cow, as a representative of industriousness and pertinence, was usually used as a sacrifice to worship the heavens, so it was not allowed to eat beef.

In ancient times, cattle were more important than people, and in ancient times, China was farming, and cattle were used to cultivate land, and they were generally not used for buying and selling.

Because in ancient times, cattle contributed greatly to replace labor.