Scholar-officials are very simple in hospitality.
Things changed suddenly, and family banquets began to be extravagant.
The prime minister's monthly income can be exchanged for 2500 Jin of pork.
The rich eat mutton instead of pork.
Scholar-officials are very simple in hospitality.
At that time, the monthly salary of the prime minister was 300,000, and the monthly salary of the top leaders in Beijing was 65,438+10,000. At that time, a biscuit was 2 yuan. If you like, the Prime Minister can take home 6.5438+0.5 million baked wheat cakes from the imperial court a month. When Su Dongpo was an official, a colleague named Gu was obese and dozed off at his desk. Su Shi jokingly wrote an inscription on the desktop: "Ancient Meat Slaughter Case". He took out another 30 yuan and said, "Come on!" Calculated, 1 kg pork is equal to 120 yuan (16 Liang 1 kg past). In this way, the Prime Minister's150,000 biscuits can be exchanged for 2,500 Jin of pork. There is no need to consider other gray inputs. As a prime minister, the income from sunshine alone is enough to live a rainy day.
Since you have a rich income every month, you can't stick to hard work and plain living, especially when entertaining guests, you must be willing to invest, otherwise you are stingy.
However, the happiness of prime ministers and officials does not mean the comfort of the people. Take the income of ordinary people as an example. Migrant workers who do odd jobs in the street earn only tens of pence a day. Hard-working workers can earn almost100p, that is, a kilo of pork, but the basic meal fee for three meals a day is 20p. Counting the net income of one day, you can't buy a catty of pork.
The rich eat mutton instead of pork.
Although Su Dongpo joked with his colleagues about pork, he didn't like it. He once commented in Qiu Chi Notes: "Yellow tapirs are as cheap as dirt, and the rich refuse to eat, and the poor don't know how to cook", saying that pork is as cheap as dirt, and not only the rich refuse to eat, but even the poor don't want to eat. At first glance, this gives people the impression that people in Song Dynasty were too happy to eat pork.
But judging from the income of ordinary people, I'm afraid Su Dongpo is divorced from the masses. The reason why the rich disdain to eat pork is because mutton was popular in the Song Dynasty. Rich people's eyes are fixed on the sheep, so naturally they won't bring pork to the table when they treat them. Poor people don't eat pork, not because pork is not delicious, but because they can't afford it. A kilo of meat costs more than 100 pence, even if the price is reduced, it will cost tens of pence, which is enough for a few days. I'm afraid it's too late to hide. If it's not a holiday, who would like to eat at ordinary times?