Simple understanding of what cereals are

"Five grains and miscellaneous grains" generally refer to food crops, which are collectively referred to as food crops. [1] "Five grains refer to: rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, and potatoes. It is also customary to refer to grains other than rice and flour as miscellaneous grains.". In the "Huangdi Neijing", the five grains are referred to as "japonica rice, adzuki beans, wheat, soybeans, and yellow millet." In the "Teng Wengong of Mencius", the five grains are referred to as "rice, millet, millet, wheat, and beans." In the Buddhist ritual, the five grains are also referred to as "barley, wheat, rice, adzuki beans, and sesame." Then, Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that there are 33 types of cereals, 14 types of beans, a total of 47 types. There is also a saying that "five grains" generally refer to five types of crops, namely, "hanging, rattan, root, horn, and ear". When the term "five grains" was originally created, there was no record of what it meant. The earliest explanation we can see was written by people in the Han Dynasty. There are mainly two interpretations by the Han people and later generations of the Han Dynasty: one is rice, millet, millet, wheat, and beans (i.e., soybeans); Another term is hemp (hemp), millet, millet, wheat, and beans. The difference between these two statements is only that one has rice without hemp, and the other has hemp without rice. Although hemp seeds can be eaten, they are mainly used for weaving cloth from their fibers. "Grain refers to grain. The former statement does not include hemp in the five grains, which is more reasonable.".

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