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Cooked food origin

Cooked food is a revolution with great significance in the history of human diet. The invention of cooked food should first be attributed to the discovery and invention of fire.

The discovery and invention of fire experienced two stages of natural fire conscious use, preservation and artificial fire.

The invention of cooked food began in the previous stage, and the development and development of cooked food depended on the latter stage. In the previous stage, since the primitive people used to live in the caves connected to the virgin forests, they could not miss the opportunity to witness the forest fires caused by various factors such as lightning, drought, earthquakes, etc. when the natural disasters occurred. When people shunned in fear, and when the fire went out, the hungry hunger drove people to go out of their way to find food and hunger. The outside world is still surviving, the smoke is lingering, and the birds and beasts that are not caught by the escape are cooked by the barbecue. After the special scent, after the nose was heard, people quickly found the burnt beast in a charcoal ashe, so they chewed their mouths. I didn’t expect the taste to be so sweet. It’s easy, gorging, and after a delicious meal, it’s a memorable one. Over and over again, after a long period of observation, over time, people will realize the benefits of burning and the benefits of cooked meat and poultry. If you want to cook food or satisfy your mouth, you must have a fire. Although natural fires are there, they are not regular. Only when you bring the fire back to the cave where you live, and save the fire, you can meet the regular desire for cooked food. Finally, I finally grasped the effective way to preserve the fire, thus creating a more stable cooked life that often uses fire to hunt and hunt animals. This is roughly the main process of the early generation and invention of human cooked food.

From the time of the Beijing monks to the Paleolithic period of the cavemen and the Zhabeinuoer period, it was the stage of the occurrence and initial development of cooked food in China, and it was the stage in which humans mastered the preservation of natural fire technology for cooked food. In the early period of the Middle Stone Age or the Neolithic Age, the occurrence and initial development of the agricultural production and the ceramic handicraft industry settled in the valley or plain, which means that the artificial fire has been invented, and the legend of the ancient history "takes the fire and smashes the fire." The so-called "燧人氏" era of "drilling rafts to get fire, educating people to cook, to raise people's interests, and to avoid odors and poisoning" is about a stage.

Feeding after fire

On the question of how primitive people started to eat cooked food, some people think that in ancient times, the fire caused by lightning not only turned large forests or grasslands into a piece of scorched earth, but also burned a large number of animals. After the catastrophe, they were Before the fire burned into a blackened animal body, before it was rotten and stinky, these blackened animal bodies can exude an extremely attractive fragrance. It is this seductive fragrance that greatly stimulates the appetite of the primitive people. And eventually led the hominid to start looking for a cooked food. There is no doubt that a rapidly spreading natural fire can burn or kill some animals, especially those that run slower. However, if the fire does not spread very quickly, there will be very few wild animals burned by fire. For the primitive people, it is a beautiful thing to be able to "food after the fire", but most of the primitive people may not be able to encounter a forest fire burning in the mountains and even the whole life. The reason is very simple. In the range of a few hundred kilometers of a primitive tribal activity, a natural fire that can burn a large number of wild animals occurs. It can be said that it is a millennium, and the probability of such a low incidence, the vast majority of primitive people May run into it?

In fact, even if the primitive people had unfortunately caught in the fire of natural fire, and they saw the animal bodies that fell in smoke and fire, the panicked primitive people could not even smell the smell of barbecue. If the hominid came to the scene of the fire after the fire was extinguished, and found the body of the animal that was burnt into a black ball by the fire, the meat that was black and black and filled with blood and blood would never be attractive. Scent. Because the catastrophic fire only burns or kills the animals, it will never turn the animal's body back and forth many times during the process of burning or killing the animals, so that it can be grilled in the fire. Cooked.

In fact, in the hot summer months, the bodies of animals that have been burnt into a black group have not become full of fly maggots, rotten and smelly, and it is already very good. Therefore, the original person is entirely likely to start eating cooked food for other more natural reasons.