Can you tell the grain? What is the difference between the five grain lengths?

Grains generally refer to rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, and sorghum. Rice is husked rice, wheat can be ground into flour, corn is common in life, soybeans are soybeans, sorghum is relatively rare, and it is generally ground into flour to make miscellaneous grains.

I can tell the grains, because when I was young, I went to work in the fields, and the grains grew differently, sorghum was red ears, wheat was golden, rice was green rind, and millet was yellow grains.

The five grains are millet, beans, hemp, wheat and rice. The five types of grains referred to in ancient times.

Introduction:

The culture of grains plays an important role in human civilization.

The origin. According to authoritative data, traces of sorghum have been observed on stone tools hundreds of thousands of years ago, indicating that grains have given birth to human beings for more than 100,000 years.

Humans cultivate wild weeds into cereals.

This cannot but be said to be a feat in the history of mankind, and the five grains gave birth to a pre-mature human civilization. At the same time, it tells the world that human beings have an indissoluble relationship with grains. The grain painting is the highest artistic embodiment of the grain culture and the artistic portrayal of the grain culture.

The grain painting originated in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty was the tribute of the Chongqing government to the emperor, Chongqing is the birthplace of the Chinese grain painting, and then developed to the north, and it is also distributed in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Mr. Tang Dayan is the inheritor of Chongqing's grain painting.

In the process of circulation, the grain painting has many names, and according to folk tradition, it should be called"Grain painting", abbreviation"Grain painting"or"Grain painting", can also be called a beautiful name"The art of grains"。Some mountainous areas in the northwest of our country are called"Grain art"、"Gu Yi"、"Bean plastic painting"、"100-meter chart"、"Rice painting"Wait.

"Five grains" are the five kinds of grains referred to in ancient times. Books older than the Analects, such as the Book of Songs and the Book of Books, only have "hundred grains" and do not say "five grains". From 100 grains to 5 grains, is there a decrease in the variety of food crops?

No. In the beginning, people often gave several different varieties of a crop a proper name, so that there were many lists. Moreover, the word "hundred" here is just used to refer to many, and there are not really a hundred.

The emergence of the term "five grains" indicates that people have a relatively clear concept of classification, and at the same time reflects that there were five main food crops at that time.

I want a meal with my sister for the New Year.

Five grains were originally called five kinds of grains in ancient China, and later generally referred to grain crops.

There are many sayings about "five grains" in ancient times, the most important are two, one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean; The other refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean. The difference between the two is that the former has rice without hemp, and the latter has hemp without rice. In ancient times, the economic and cultural center was in the Yellow River Basin, and the main production area of rice was in the south, while rice cultivation in the north was limited, so there was no rice in the "five grains" at first.

The five grains "millet, millet, wheat, mushroom, and rice" refer to the following:

1. Millet: Millet shelled, that is, yellow rice, its seeds are sticky after cooking, and can be used to make wine and cakes. Because it is not conducive to digestion, "millet" is basically not used as a staple food now.

2. Millet: also known as millet, the growth is drought tolerant, there are many varieties, commonly known as "millet has five colors", there are white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet of various colors, and there are also sticky millet.

3. Wheat, a class of grasses, a kind of grains, divided into wheat, barley and other types.

4. Mushroom: A general term for beans, as the old saying goes: "Soybean is the strongest."

The ancient name is 尗, the Chinese name is the bean, and the word is now Shu. The general name of the beans. However, soybeans are called soybeans, bean seedlings are called Huo, and small beans are called wattles.

Bean products are also one of the favorite foods of the Chinese people.

5. Rice is a kind of cereal crop with straight stem of the grass family, and the main type is "rice" (which has always referred to light rice) with soil cultivation.

黍, 稷, wheat, 菽, and rice are pronounced as: shǔ, jì, mài, shū, dào, respectively.

1. 黍黍 (pinyin: shǔ) is a general standard second-level character in Chinese. The first text of this character was first seen in the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription, and its ancient character image was the image of a mature millet scattered spike.

Some of the glyphs have the word "water", which probably indicates the need for water for irrigation. Millet is a food crop that is similar to rice and is commonly known as yellow rice.

2. 稷稷 (pinyin: jì) is a second-level general standard Chinese character in Chinese. This character was first found in the Warring States period, and it may have been produced earlier.

The original meaning of millet is a grain crop, but the specific meaning is different, one says it is millet, one says it is sorghum, and the other says it is non-sticky millet. Millet was a very important food crop in ancient times, and was regarded as the length of a hundred grains. Ji evolved from the length of a hundred grains to the god of five grains, and together with the earth god, it was called "Sheji", and later became the name of the country.

3. Maimai, pinyin: mài, is a first-level character of the general standard of Chinese, and it is a phonetic character and a meaning character. Oracle glyphs.

From, from 夂, for the word differentiation of the word. The original meaning refers to coming, and the meaning of coming later is expressed in terms of what should be wheat. Wheat is an annual or biennial herb that includes wheat, barley, oats, rye, etc.

Zishi is mainly used as grain or concentrate feed, winemaking, caramel and so on. The stalks can be used for weaving or papermaking. Mai is also one of the radicals of Chinese characters.

4. 菽菽 is a Chinese character that is pronounced shū. The seal script is written as "尗", which means to look like a bean growing. Later, it was written as "菽", which became a shape and sound character, "艹 (grass)" for the shape of the side, and "uncle" for the sound side. "Mushroom" is a general term for legumes.

5. Daodao (pinyin: dào), a first-level general standard Chinese character (commonly used character). The specific time of production of this character is unknown, some people believe that it was first seen in the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription, and the upper part of its ancient glyph is "rice"; The lower part resembles a container for rice.

Later, it became a shape-sound structure, from the sound of grass and scooping. The original meaning of "rice" is an annual herbaceous plant, and rice is actually called "rice", and after being hulled, it is "rice" for consumption. There is the position of "rice man" in "Zhou Li", which is an official in charge of rice planting.