When there was a locust plague in ancient times, why didn t people eat locusts to get through the di

As we all know, China's "foodies" are famous and powerful, as long as they can be eaten and delicious, no matter how strange, they are the favorite of Chinese. Often, none of the good food makes it out of China alive.

And we also know that China has been an agricultural country with a long history since ancient times, most of the people rely on farming to live, and the best people of all dynasties and generations also rely on the taxes paid by farmers to maintain the national finances. However, due to the low productivity of science and technology in ancient times, it was very powerless to resist natural disasters. Since ancient times, China has been a country with frequent locust plagues, and its scope and extent of disasters are the largest in the world.

Therefore, once a locust plague occurs in our country, it will have a serious impact on the politics, economy, and culture at that time. According to historical records, when the dense and full field of locusts attacked, it only left a tragic scene of withered grass and trees and no crops.

In addition, locusts are rich in vitamins, phosphorus, iron and many other minerals, coupled with the flesh of locusts is sweet and sweet, and warm, which also makes it have high medicinal value. It turns out that the flesh of locusts is so good, so that those people affected by the locust plague can solve the problem of destroying crops by catching locusts?

In this case, when the locust plague occurred in ancient times, why did people not eat locusts to tide over the difficulties? First of all, the working people in ancient times were deeply poisoned by feudal superstition, and many people regarded locusts as "divine insects". When natural disasters occurred frequently in ancient society, people felt that it was the heavens that were angry, so they sent locusts to punish the people.

Therefore, when the locust plague occurred, the first reaction of the ancient people was not to hunt and kill the locusts, but to kowtow to the locusts in the field, hoping that God would not blame them.

Second, locusts often leave no grass behind, and they gather and migrate hundreds of kilometers, which makes it extremely difficult to hunt and kill locusts. Such a huge swarm of locusts undoubtedly caused great fear in the hearts of the ancient peasants. People tend to avoid him, let alone dare to hunt and eat him.

Moreover, even if they were so hungry that they wanted to catch locusts to eat, because the locusts flew very fast, and the people at that time did not have enough tools to catch the locusts, so they did not catch locusts to eat.

Finally, the disasters caused by locusts are not temporary, they destroy the efforts of farmers for at least a year. In fact, some areas in ancient China did have the habit of eating locusts, but this kind of insect will always be eaten one day, and the disaster brought by locusts to the common people is to ruin their food rations for a whole year. Once the locusts have formed a scale, they can often eat up crops within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the number of people affected will be hundreds of thousands or even millions.

With such a large area and such a large number of affected people, even if all the locusts were caught, it would be far from enough to meet such a huge amount of food rations for a year.

Because there are so many locusts, people can't eat locusts all at once, and locusts are very strong in their ability to reproduce.

The first is because the ancients believed that locusts were God's punishment for everyone, and they didn't dare to eat them because they didn't dare to go against the will of heaven, and the other ancient people had less knowledge and didn't know that they could eat them.

In ancient times, when the locust plague occurred, people did not eat locusts to survive the difficulties, this is because the ancient people were more feudal, they believed that locusts were hoodoos and could not be eaten, so they starved to death and would not eat them.

Because in ancient times, people were superstitious that locusts were a bad symbol, and because there were many locusts during the locust plague and their appearance was ugly, people naturally did not think of eating locusts to get through the difficulties.

Because they didn't dare, most of the ancients were superstitious, believing that locusts were "gods" sent by God to punish the world, so no one dared to eat them.