When did the oldest noodle appear in China? When did wheat appear in China?

The cultivation of wheat in China was recorded as early as the Longshan period, while the record of wheat grinding into noodles appeared around the Warring States period, and the appearance of noodles is an important part of China's food culture.

Our country has a long history, and is the only one of the four ancient civilizations of ancient times in existence. In such a long history, in addition to the rich cultural heritage, we are also colorful and diverse for food culture. For example, the pasta that we often see on the modern table is a long history of ? ancient thing?

Pasta is usually made from flour, and the grain used to make it is wheat. According to archaeologists, wheat is not our native crop, they originated in the western region of Asia, and were brought to our region by the Western peoples of that time when they grazed their animals. And over time, it gradually became an important crop for our people to eat.

After concluding that wheat is not native to China, many scholars are interested in when wheat was introduced to the country. A Japanese historian concluded that wheat was introduced to China after Zhang Qian's mission to the West. This conclusion is very not rigorous, early to our scholars harsh refutation. Early in the ancient records, China's wheat planting time is not only a short period of time. According to the earliest ancient records, wheat has been introduced into our country at least four thousand years of history.

While the time recorded in the ancient books is so, but there is no strong evidence to prove, so this conclusion only exists in theory. Until later, some archaeologists in the Xinjiang region excavated ancient wheat remains, wheat in China's cultivation of the event has been further more precise determination. These excavated wheat showed the fact that there was already wheat cultivation in China as early as the Longshan period.

The record of wheat grinding into flour also has a long history, and there are historical records of wheat grinders from the Warring States period. So both wheat, and the grinding of noodles, have a long history in China, and also disprove the uncritical historical findings of Japanese scholars.