Rice, millet, millet. These six valleys are eaten by people.

Some staple foods in human life come from plants, such as rice, wheat, beans, corn and sorghum, which are important foods in our daily life.

Liugu, the six main cereals in ancient China, refers to six ancient crops: rice, millet, millet, sorghum, wheat and water chestnut, but in the San Zi Jing, rice, sorghum, water chestnut, wheat, millet and millet are combined into six cereals.

Extended data:

1, rice

Panicum miliaceum, widely cultivated in warm climate. As the staple food of human beings, seeds, chaff and other by-products can be used to feed livestock, and rice stalks can be used to make paper. Divided into rice and upland rice, usually refers to rice. The seed is called millet, and it is called rice after grinding and hulling. There are glutinous rice, japonica rice and indica rice. In ancient times, rice was sticky and japonica rice was not sticky.

Step 2 light

Liang and Panicum (Panicum) have round or oval seeds. Commonly known as "millet" in the north, it is called "millet" after peeling.

3. hey

The floorboard of beans.

4. Wheat

(1) Annual or biennial herbs are important food crops in northern China. Their seeds are edible and can also be used for brewing wine and sugar: wheat | barley | rye | oat.

② Especially wheat.

5. Xiaomi

Millet, with linear leaves and light yellow seeds, is called yellow rice after peeling, which is slightly larger than millet and sticky after cooking. Millet is a forage crop and small grain in Gramineae. Asia or Africa may have been cultivated more than 4000 years ago.

6.millet

Wheat or whole grains.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Liugu