In the past, I saw a professional book published in the 60s in Nong Bosheng's study on the daily life characteristics of the nomadic and settled peoples in the northern and western regions of ancient China.

Zhang Nan is also a foodie, and I still remember the content of that book clearly.

According to the description of that book, when the nomads were at their strongest, ordinary herdsmen could not have meat to eat every day, and milk and blood products accounted for a large proportion of their daily diet.

In particular, dairy products make up the largest proportion of the diet, and there should be a lot of plant-based foods in the warmer season, and with a little game and fish, there is really nothing to eat.

Basically, the early nomads ate fish, and there were very few who didn't eat fish, and the reason for not eating couldn't escape the later religious beliefs and some more alternative funeral customs.

Nomadism means instability, fighting with the sky and the earth all the time, and not eating fish is equivalent to missing an important source of food.

As for livestock, it is precious to the nomads, and it is estimated that except for nobles of a certain rank or above, it is impossible for ordinary people to eat beef and mutton every day.

Cattle and sheep are precious, and horses are the basis of the existence of nomads, if there are no horses, then nomads are almost like savages, nothing!

Horses, the most precious!

Since ancient times, horse meat has also been the most precious food in the diet of various nomadic peoples, and the average tribe will only kill horses and eat meat on the most important days, as was the case with the Mongols in the Temujin period.

Not to mention ordinary herdsmen, to the general aristocracy: usually eat sheep, when more important guests visit, they often slaughter cattle, and only when important festivals, sacrifices or very distinguished guests visit, then they will kill horses.

Until 60 years ago, the Kazakhs of the Soviet Union were basically pure nomads, and they had a soft spot for horses, calling themselves "a people on horseback", "the most ridden people in the world", and considering horses as their most loyal friends.

The most loyal friend, the way humans treat this kind of friend is generally to wait for the friend to lose its usefulness, slaughter and eat meat, not as good as a dog.

Like almost all nomadic peoples for thousands of years, it is said that the "horse-loving" Kazakhs are not afraid to eat horse meat, even very fondly, and it is even an indispensable delicacy on the daily life and festive table.

Kazakhs often say: "We love horses, we love horse meat, almost everyone eats it, and there is no contradiction at all." ”

"The Kazakhs say that the most popular eater of horse meat in the world is the wolf, followed by the Kazakhs themselves.

I used to come here to run errands, and every time I would eat horse meat, it was actually quite delicious, I really don't lie to you. ”

Miss Charlie didn't eat, and Xiang Jiannan on the side was also entangled, causing people like Brother Mark, who usually had no taboos to eat, to become hesitant, and Vasily had to increase everyone's confidence.

After listening to Vasily's words, Charlize Theron looked left and right, a little embarrassed, and didn't want everyone to deliberately accommodate because of her feelings.

"Leave me alone, you can eat as much as you want, you can't eat much in the United States. ”

Everyone has their own expressions, except for those who have been to Kazakhstan before, there are really few who have eaten horse meat.

Except for guys from China, like Mark, Randy and others, horses are common, but let alone eating, horse meat has never been seen.

The majority ethnic group of the United States comes from Europe, and because of some religious reasons in history, horse meat is said to be the food of pagans, coupled with a bunch of messy incidents related to horse meat in the short history of the United States, very few people in the United States eat horse meat, or they will not eat horse meat unless they have to.

Even in this meeting, politicians such as lawmakers often jump out and declare that the slaughter, sale, and consumption of horse meat will be banned throughout the United States.

Don't think that those politicians are animal protectionists, most of them are only thinking and propagandizing from religious and health prejudices.

Is horse meat unhealthy?

Some Americans still think that horse meat cannot be eaten and that it will be poisoned if eaten!

There are a lot of horses raised in the United States, so can all the horses in the United States die or be humanely destroyed and treated without pollution?

!

Every year, more than 100,000 horses are shipped from the United States to other countries to make horse meat for sale, and the capital market, as long as there is a profit, nothing will be wasted.

Don't be accommodating to Miss Charlie's feelings, just eat, anyway, for a group of carnivores, the table full of all kinds of horse meat dishes is quite tempting.

Zhang Nan used his own chopsticks to make a horse meat dish similar to the combination of "hand-grasped mutton" and "potato beef stew", and tasted it in his mouth.

It is not as exaggerated as the rumored "horse meat has a strong smell and the meat is coarse and can't be bitten", and the taste advantages are similar to the combination of beef and donkey meat, and I don't feel that the meat fiber is too thick and I can't bite my teeth.

The table is basically made of horse meat of all kinds of meat, and Andrei, who is familiar with this place, said that the dish that Zhang Nan just ate is the most popular among Kazakhs, and it can be regarded as a representative of the national cuisine here.

"This is called Beshbarmak, which means 'five fingers' in Kazakh, and it is more exciting to eat it directly with your hands, but this plate should have been improved, with potatoes added and no dough..."

No dough is added, that's because the boss occasionally eats noodles, but never eats any form of dough, and the butler Tom explained to the kitchen in advance.

There is a similar situation: there must not be any vinegar in front of the boss, regardless of rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar!

There are many ways to eat horse meat, and Andre will hear that the most common and special dish here is horse intestine - fresh horse meat is cut into strips, sprinkled with salt, MSG and garlic, stuffed into a horse casing, sealed at both ends and simmered over low heat.

According to the different parts of horse meat used, the horse intestines that Kazakhs love to eat are also divided into several types, as well as pure lean meat, whole fat meat, half fat and half lean meat.

The horse intestines looked a little weird, Zhang Nan tasted a little, when he ate alternative sausages, he felt that the taste was like this, and he definitely couldn't catch up with the first-class sausages produced by the Yanxian Food Factory that he liked.

A horse meat, a pork, this is comparative...

Zhang Nan likes to compare like this, what's the matter, do you have an opinion?

For those who love their families, the taste of hometown is the best, and until now, every once in a while, a batch of fresh food from hometown will be flown to New York.

Just like the thin-skinned local cherries from Yan County that were delivered last month, the cherries in the United States are big and sweet, but they don't have the refreshing taste of the small cherries in their hometown.

Zhang Nan has always been meticulous when he has the conditions to eat, which is also the habit of Chinese people, and the food in Kazakhstan is a bit like that - the meal in front of him is definitely the grade of the Kazakh state banquet, but for Zhang Nan, there are just two words: rough!

It's really rough, out of China, it's really difficult to find some real fine food on the earth.

A group of carnivores have no taboos, but they have also followed the boss over the years, and the group of people can fill their stomachs at will at most this meal.

Charlie got the steak she wanted, and after eating, she asked, "Vasily, are all the horses that have been eliminated from the people here?"

If so, it is really a little cruel, just like the beef that Zhang Nan ate in his hometown a few years ago: the supply of beef is very small, and the common people have almost no habit of eating beef, let alone transferring it from other places.

Cattle have been ploughing the land all their lives, and when they are old, injured, and unable to do it, they are slaughtered and sold for meat.

It's also a bit like those Chinese pastoral dogs who watch the house, loyal and loyal, but nine times out of ten they can't escape the fate of being stabbed in the end, and it is really rare to be able to die and settle in the ground.

Not to mention slaughtered dog meat, even dogs poisoned with cyanide are eaten!

The people in the restaurant are all their own people, Vasily doesn't have to hide what he says, as long as it's the truth, he doesn't need to be too tactful.

In response to Miss Charlie's question, Vasily said: "It's not about the old horses, Kazakhstan has specially bred food horse breeds and horse farms, and private horse breeding has become common in recent years.

The forage and static feed that horses usually feed are particularly particular about and grow quickly, so the taste of horse meat of this kind of horse is particularly good and relatively tender.

If it is a eliminated service horse, the meat will be very thick and old, and it will be able to gnaw on it only with good teeth..."There are more than 1.5 million horses raised in Kazakhstan, and the annual output of horse meat exceeds 100,000 tons!"

The vegetable beef in China means that you can't eat the taste of beef, and you don't have the unique aroma of beef;

Eating beef, for the Chinese people, the slaughtered old cow beef is the best quality, what Wagyu beef, snowflake beef, there is no taste of beef at all!

The horse here is good, the horse meat is already coarse, and the meat on the old horse is more of an "over-exercised muscle", so you can't bite it, and the taste of fast-growing and fattening vegetable horse meat is good.

"Vegetable cow, vegetable horse...", Zhang Nan, who was almost after dinner, didn't know why, and the word "vegetable man" suddenly popped up in his head, and he was directly silent.

After eating, he got up and left the restaurant.

I probably thought too much about the ancient steppe peoples, what the is there to eat!

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The environment here is good, yesterday afternoon on the hillside overlooked, a picture of the Tianshan Mountains.

Well, this place belongs to the Tien Shan Mountains.

Go to bed early at night and wake up early the next day, the sanatorium is backed by high mountains, and a large area of hilly terrain with meadows and woods belong to the sanatorium.

The air here in the early morning will be very good, and it should be fresh, but the downside is that it is a little cool at most.

Tom, the housekeeper who always follows Zhang Nan everywhere, has laid a thick mat in advance on a protruding flat rock above the single villa where the boss lives, and the boss will meditate against the morning sun today.

In the past two days, Guan Xingquan's meteoric situation has caused too many ups and downs, one will be scared, the other will be elated, and even when he is moved, Zhang Nan needs to adjust this morning.

In the past few years, when I have free time, I will practice the Tao Sutra of Self-cultivation, although I don't insist on it every day (if you need to insist on it, you lack nature.) I can also clearly feel that my biological condition is much better than the same period in my previous life.

At this time in my last life, I was experiencing a crazy property market in Qionghai, and the rhythm of life and conditions could not be compared with today, and even the cigarettes were smoked a lot less than the same period in my previous life, so it was strange that I felt bad.

Working cross-legged, I didn't think about the time, I just relaxed and adjusted my breathing.

Slowly, there is no longer a need to deliberately adjust the breathing, and even the early morning birdsong in the ears is gradually ignored, and the whole body relaxes, and everything goes naturally.

I don't know how long it took me to get up, refreshed, and feel that the world is so fresh.

Looking around, I saw from a distance that my brother-in-law and Lin Ming were also exercising, probably having finished running, and were playing on the lawn with pushers similar to Tai Chi, but they were slightly different.

Don't look at the soft movements, one force can kill people!

Taoism is broad and profound, I feel that my brother-in-law and Brother Guan seem to be getting younger and younger in the past two years, and it is nonsense to live forever in the future, and the eldest family is still a little hopeful for being 100 years old.

Nephew Xiang Jiannan was also there, and the young man would not be able to practice this seemingly profound Taoist classic like his father, and Jiang Wangqiu was instructing him in the martial arts of the army.

I saw that the young man was already a little hot, and it was obvious that someone had been teaching him in his hometown before.

Zhang Nan feels that this is very good, Chinese people should learn some techniques to strengthen their bodies, it is better than a group of young people who are addicted to computers and mobile games all day and night after 20 years.

Guns are banned and knife controlled, if you don't practice your own body, what will the young people in the future order in addition to opening their mouths online and coping with exams?

Zhang Nan's primary school physical education teacher said that students who are not in good health are waste, and they are more wasteful and useless than dangerous goods with problems with ideology and morality!

Young people should exercise, otherwise they don't even have the qualifications to defend themselves and act bravely, this requires a gun without a gun, a knife without a knife, and when it touches the flower arm, it will become the rookie horse that was eaten last night.

After 20 years, there are so many arms, anyway, Zhang Nan feels more than when he was a young man.

The world is always cruel, and no one will pity the rookie horses, except for the same kind of rookie horses.

What are the same kind of rookie horses?

A rookie horse to be slaughtered!

didn't go to join in the fun, Zhang Nan returned to the villa, and the servants had already prepared breakfast.

Chinese style plus Western style, porridge, light steamed buns, small pickles, pickles, pickled melons, salted duck eggs, bread, cakes, milk, coffee, juice are available.

Apple juice, a local specialty, with a large apple orchard nearby, and last year's stock in the town's cold storage.

Soon after Chariz Theron got up, as soon as she entered the small dining room, she said to the waiter: "Porridge, a small pickled melon, a croissant, a light steamed bun, and a glass of hot milk." ”

Zhang Nan was pulling porridge into his mouth with chopsticks and pickles, and every time he heard Charlie's words, he couldn't help but shake his head: This is the future Saihuang?

The style of painting is a little wrong.,It's a pretty standard Mandarin.,If you don't look at people and just listen to the sound and the name of the food you want.,It's really not the same number as the Chariz Theron in my head.。

looks like a Western celebrity, and her eating habits have long been brought by herself to become most of the Chinese girls, and it will be even more awkward to see her picking up porridge with one hand and nibbling on a steamed bun with the other.

Talking to you while nibbling on steamed buns, or do you say while gnawing, "Brother, go horseback riding after eating?"

Muttering, muttering is more appropriate.

"Well, after eating, I'll go change my clothes first, and I'll go later. Zhang Nan stuffed steamed buns in his mouth, vaguely responding.