"Food is the most important thing for the people" comes from Han Shu Shi Lichuan written by Ban Gu, a historian in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The original text is: "Jun regards the people as the sky, and the people regard food as the sky."
Interpretation: the emperor is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented. ?
China entered the farming era very early. In the long agricultural society, people have to pay more attention to food and clothing because of the low level of productivity, relatively small social population and frequent natural and man-made disasters in history. In ancient times, countries and countries were described as "countries". This "millet" was described as millet in some ancient books and as grain in some books. In short, it is a kind of food.
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Creation background
Because Historical Records only wrote the early years of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, many people wrote sequels for it at that time. According to the records in the Book of Changes, there are more than ten people who wrote the sequel to Historical Records, such as Liu Xiang, Liu Xin, and so on, whose title is still called Historical Records.
Ban Gu's father, Ban Biao (AD 3 ~ AD 54), was very dissatisfied with these sequels, so he chose Different Stories about Old Events as Historical Records and Postscript of Sixty-five.
After Ban Biao's death, Ban Gu, who was only 22 years old, began to sort out his father's manuscripts, determined to follow in his father's footsteps and complete this masterpiece and the Han Dynasty.