China is a country with a long history, which has experienced many dynasties and replaced many emperors. There are good kings who praise the people for the benefit of the people, and there are evil kings who harm the people and strike at them at the first mention. Speaking of the famous Emperor, one can think of the King of Shang, whose people were miserable under his rule, and it was precisely because of his brutality that the Shang Dynasty was pushed to its demise. The King of Shang was so lustful that he was fascinated by Dai Ji, and in order to please her beloved concubine, he dared to do anything faint and cruel. For example, he created a "wine pond meat forest" in the court. This also reflects the extravagance of his life.
The "wine pond meat forest" is simply that the large pool in the palace is filled with fine wine, which becomes the water in the pool, and the cut meat is hung on the tree, forming a "meat forest". Although this scene seems like an impossible thing in modern times, it really existed at the time. At that time, people were also very critical of this behavior of the King of Shang, but there were also some people who expressed envy for it, after all, there was fine wine and all kinds of meat to eat. In fact, you don't have to be too envious of this, because those things that seem to be very delicious, if you understand the story behind them, you don't envy them, and even if you feed the dogs now, the dogs will not eat them.
To know that the wine is obtained after fermentation, there was already yellow rice at that time, yellow rice after cooking is very viscous, people do not like to eat such food, so it is used as a raw material for winemaking. The wine in those pools actually did not have the taste of wine, because there was no technology and no equipment at that time, and the wine was only obtained because the grain was fermented after it was moldy. Moreover, at that time, there was no ironware, let alone distillation, so the wine was not dry and clean.
Talking about the hanging meat, the meat is actually more unpalatable. Although it was difficult to buy a lot of wild game at that time, even if you have money now, at that time it was just tasteless meat. Because there were no various seasonings at that time, just add a little salt and taste a little. Like now, everyone eats barbecue and wants to put any spices, so even if they eat wild game at that time, it is not as good as the current home cooking. After all, "tasteless food" eats nothing fragrant.
Then don't look at the film and television drama filmed in the Feast of the King of Shang, a bunch of fruits of various kinds, it looks like a paradise on earth. But in fact, it is not the case, such as apples, grapes, etc. in the Shang Dynasty, there is no juice, even if there are various fruits, then there is a lack of juicing technology at that time, they can not drink delicious juice. The tea on the table is even more unlikely, after all, the tea was introduced to the mainland in the Han Dynasty. So the legendary wine pond meat forest, in fact, for today, maybe the dogs are better than what they eat.