What are the grains, fruits and vegetables that China has had since ancient times?

Cereals: rice, millet, wheat, highland barley and beans.

Vegetables: celery, cabbage.

Fruits: peaches, plums and dates.

1, rice

Early rice appeared in Yunnan about 50,000 years ago.

Archaeological discoveries in Daoxian County, Hunan Province and Wannian County, Jiangxi Province show that humans began to grow and eat food about 13000 years ago. Before the Neolithic Age, humans should have chewed the whole rice with their mouths.

Rice embryo and aleurone layer contain nearly 64% of rice nutrition and more than 90% of the nutrients needed by human body, which are the main foods for people in most parts of China.

2. Millet (millet)

Millet is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, which originated from the Yellow River valley in northern China and was the main food crop in ancient China. Therefore, Xia and Shang Dynasties belong to "millet culture".

3. Chinese cabbage

Chinese cabbage is a native vegetable in China with a long cultivation history. According to textual research, the white rape flower found in the site of the original village in Xi 'an Banpo in the Neolithic age in China was about 6000 -7000 years ago.

Chinese cabbage was introduced to Japan, Europe and America in the19th century.

4.celery

Celery belongs to Umbelliferae, which has a long planting history and a large planting area in China. It is one of the vegetables that people in China often eat. It is rich in protein, carbohydrates, carotene, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and sodium.

5, peaches

China is the hometown of peach trees. Around the tenth century BC, there was a saying in the Book of Songs Feng Wei that "there are peaches in the garden, which is really confusing". "Feng Wei" refers to the cultivation of peaches in the gardens north of the Yellow River and in the vast areas of Shanxi today. It is naturally cultivated artificially, indicating that there has been a certain planting scale.

The fruit is juicy and can be eaten raw or canned peaches and peaches. And nucleoli can also be eaten.

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