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What is a traditional Chinese breakfast?
Breakfast? What breakfast!

In the reign of the Han dynasty - 202 BC – 9 AD; 25–220 AD - people only had two meals a day: the first meal, called zhao shi or yong (morning food), was around nine-o’clock.

The second meal, called shi or sun, was eaten around four in the afternoon.

Should someone ate at an improper time, it was viewed as a breach in etiquette.

So why do we Chinese now eat three meals a day?

Again it was traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Then, having three or four meals a day was limited to the rulers and the upper classes.

With better developments in agriculture, people gradually changed their traditional dining practice to breakfast, lunch and dinner. And because it was a farming society, people started worked at the break of dawn and rested when the sun went down. Finishing dinner meant the end of the day.

In the economically improved Song Dynasty (960-1279) the three-meals-a-day practice became widespread and directly drove prosperity in the catering industry. And now the three-meals-a-day practice is fixed and has become a way to show the Chinese love for food.

Taditional breakfast food vary from region to region. The illustration below gives you an idea of traditional breakfast in the different regions of China.

There is no one breakfast for all of the vast country. However I'd say buns, dumplings and noodles with all its variations are typical breakfast food. That's what I experienced in different parts of China.

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What is a traditional Chinese breakfast?
Breakfast? What breakfast!

In the reign of the Han dynasty - 202 BC – 9 AD; 25–220 AD - people only had two meals a day: the first meal, called zhao shi or yong (morning food), was around nine-o’clock.

The second meal, called shi or sun, was eaten around four in the afternoon.

Should someone ate at an improper time, it was viewed as a breach in etiquette.

So why do we Chinese now eat three meals a day?

Again it was traced back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Then, having three or four meals a day was limited to the rulers and the upper classes.

With better developments in agriculture, people gradually changed their traditional dining practice to breakfast, lunch and dinner. And because it was a farming society, people started worked at the break of dawn and rested when the sun went down. Finishing dinner meant the end of the day.

In the economically improved Song Dynasty (960-1279) the three-meals-a-day practice became widespread and directly drove prosperity in the catering industry. And now the three-meals-a-day practice is fixed and has become a way to show the Chinese love for food.

Taditional breakfast food vary from region to region. The illustration below gives you an idea of traditional breakfast in the different regions of China.

There is no one breakfast for all of the vast country. However I'd say buns, dumplings and noodles with all its variations are typical breakfast food. That's what I experienced in different parts of China.

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