Did ancient（古代的）Chinese people have three meals a day like us now? How many times did they eat a day?
Before and in the Qin and Han dynasties（朝代）,1 people only ate two meals a day. They didn't have enough food2 bad farming.
They usually ate the3 meal between 7 and 9 a. m. The second is between 3 and 5 p. m.4 was the main meal because they thought morning was the most important time of a day. They had to go out to do some farming.5 , at the same time, some rich people had three meals a day.
Three meals a day became6 in the Sui and Tang dynasties. At that time, the country and the farming were7 . Lunch became the main meal. Many poets, such as Bai Juyi and Jia Dao, used the word "lunch" in8 poems（诗歌）.
The 9 of meals people ate was also different. For example, some rich people of the Han Dynasty10 four meals a day. Manchu people of the Qing Dynasty had only two.
