The Historical Origin Of Coarse Grains

Qing Xue Fucheng "Ying Zhao Chen Yanshu" : "Eight flag soldiers, not used to rice food, often led by Niu Lu Zhang Jing rice easy money, fold to the soldiers, buy miscellaneous grain filled food." "Twenty years to witness the strange situation" twenty-six times: "The original country people are very bitter, the rice is sold, and they only eat some miscellaneous grains." Hong Shen "Fragrant rice" the first act: "My home is mountainous, thin soil, a year can only plant a variety of grains."
The saying of "grains and grains" appeared in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, "The Analects of Confucius · Micro Son" : "The four bodies are not hard, the five grains are not divided." But there are different explanations. One is broomcorn, millet, wheat, beans and rice. One is broomcorn millet, millet, wheat, beans and hemp. The main difference between these two statements is the existence of rice hemp, the reason for the divergence, because there were more than five crops at that time, the existence of "hundred grains", "six grains" and "nine grains" is a clear proof, and there are differences in crop types in different places. The reason why "cereals and miscellaneous grains" is popular is influenced by the thought of five elements. Therefore, generally speaking, the five grains refers to several major food crops.