What are the Six Grains

The six grains are the six main grains of ancient China, which in ancient times referred to six crops: rice, millet, jik, beam, wheat, and 苽, and in the Three Character Classic (三字經), rice, sorghum, peas, wheat, millet, and jik are merged into the six grains.

1, introduction:

Word: six valleys

Pinyin: liùgǔ

English: [six crops]

Interpretation: In ancient times, it refers to the six kinds of crops of rice, millet, millet, beams, wheat, beans and peas

The king lifted one on a single day, and the tripod was ten or two, and everything had a chopping board for the joyful urge to eat.

Anciently, water bamboo was called 苽.

And in the "Three Character Classic", rice, sorghum, beans, wheat, millet, jikji and become six grains. The cloud "rice, beans, wheat, millet,稷, the six grains people eat"

2, rice:

refers to an annual herbaceous plant, widely cultivated in warm climates, the seeds are used as a staple food for human beings, hulls and other by-products can be raised livestock, rice stalks are used for papermaking. Sub-water rice and dry rice, usually refers to water rice. The seed is called grain, milled and shelled called rice. There are glutinous rice, japonica rice, indica rice. Ancient sticky for rice, not sticky for Japonica

3, Liang:

Tong Liang, corn (annual herb, the fruit is round or oval small grain. North commonly known as "grain", peeled called "millet") of the best varieties of the general term.

4, beans:

beans

The general term for beans

5, wheat:

①Annual or biennial herbaceous plants, is China's important grain crops in the north, the seeds can be eaten, can also be brewed, sugar: wheat | barley | rye | oats. ② refers exclusively to wheat

6, millet:

Annual herbaceous plants, leaves linear, yellowish seeds, peeled and called yellow rice, slightly larger than millet, cooked viscous. Millet is a class of fodder crops and cereals with small seed shapes in the family Gramineae. It may have been cultivated in Asia or Africa more than 4000 years ago.

7, Jik:

Wheat, or a general term for five grains.