It means: Rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, and potatoes are the basis for survival. With more food, the people will be stable, and the country will be stable.

Key words: Whole grains

Five grains refer to: rice, wheat, soybeans, corn, potatoes. At the same time, grains other than rice and flour are also customarily called miscellaneous grains. Cereals also generally refer to food crops, so grains are also the collective name for food crops.

In the "Huangdi Neijing", the five grains are called: "japonica rice, adzuki beans, wheat, soybeans, and yellow millet", while in "Mencius and Teng Wengong", the five grains are called "rice, millet, and millet". ", wheat, bean". In Buddhist sacrifices, grains are also called "barley, wheat, rice, adzuki beans, and flax". Then Li Shizhen recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that there are 33 kinds of cereals and 14 kinds of beans. In total, ***47 types. There is also a saying that grains generally refer to five categories of crops, namely "hanging, vine, root, horn and ear".

The origin of the name of grains

The earliest record of the term "grains" can be found in "The Analects of Confucius". According to the record in The Analects of Confucius: More than 2,400 years ago, Confucius took his students on a long trip. Zilu was lagging behind. He met an old farmer carrying a bamboo basket with a staff and asked him, "Have you seen the Master?" The old farmer said: "If the limbs are not working and the grains cannot be distinguished, who is the Master?"