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First it was a two-meals-a-day practice. The first meal, called zhao shi (moring food), is usually around nine-o’clock in the morning. The second meal, bu shi, is had around four in the afternoon. At around the Ha Dynasty (2.6B.c- 220 A.D.), with better development of living, people of every nationality group and region slowly began to adopt the “breakfast, lunch, and dinner” practice. For the Chinese, they would like to eat a lot at breakfast; at lunch, the have a marvellous meal; and at dinner, they eat less food.
Three meals of the day must be prepared and eaten fresh, a way of showing the Chinese’s crave and love for food. Though Chinese have three meals a day, most of Chinese have a healthy body for their food’s appropriate proportion of nutrition.