When did three meals a day begin in ancient times?

1, three meals a day originated in the Han Dynasty and became popular from the Han Dynasty. In ancient times, when people were poor, many people didn't have enough to eat. Most lower classes eat one or two meals a day. With the rapid increase of population, the grain output can't go up, and there is a meal every two days. It was not until the Ming dynasty that potatoes and corn were introduced, and when there was not so much food to eat, they ate corn and potatoes and slowly began to have three meals a day and more meals.

In Ming and Qing Dynasties, people used to eat two meals a day. Japanese Zeng Genjun Hu wrote a book called Journey to North China and Wandering in Qing Dynasty, which recorded people's diet at that time. "Everyone eat twice a day? Like Shanghai, Emperor Qianlong ate two meals a day, which is called "morning" and "evening", and there is no such thing as "middle". Jia Zhuangxue 1934, a famous photographer, visited the Qiang area in western Sichuan. At that time, local people used to eat two meals a day, breakfast at around 10 in the morning and dinner at around 5 pm. China has had "extra meals" since the Han Dynasty, that is, three meals a day, but this situation has not been popularized in the whole society.

3. And it is not a habit to add meals at noon, only occasionally. Sometimes there is food, sometimes there is no food. The Tang Dynasty was the richest dynasty in China. Du Fu, who cares about the country and the people, admitted in his poem that "rice is full of fat and millet, and both public and private warehouses are rich". From officials to ordinary people, ordinary people can have food, so all the beautiful women we see in Tang paintings handed down from generation to generation are full, and full is full. It is very likely that at that time, especially in the prosperous new century, people were able to add meals because of sufficient food.