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What do rice, wheat, beams, beans, paddy, millet and jik mean?
Rice - refers to an annual herbaceous plant, widely cultivated in warm climates, the seeds are used as a staple food for human beings, the hulls and other by-products can be used to feed livestock, and the stalks are used to make paper. Rice is divided into water rice and dry rice, usually referred to as rice. The fruit is called grain, and after milling and removing the husk, it is called rice. There are glutinous rice, round-grained rice, indica rice. Ancient sticky for rice, not sticky for Japonica Liang - through the sorghum, corn (annual herbaceous plants, the seeds are round or oval grain. North commonly known as "grain", peeled and called "millet") of the best varieties of the general term.  Beans - a general term for beans Wheat - ① annual or biennial herbaceous plants, is an important grain crop in northern China, the seeds can be eaten, but also brewing, sugar: wheat | barley | rye | oats. ② refers exclusively to wheat Millet - annual herb, leaves linear, yellowish seeds, peeled called yellow rice, slightly larger than millet, cooked viscous. Millet is a class of small seed-shaped fodder crops and cereals in the grass family. It was probably cultivated in Asia or Africa more than 4000 years ago.  Jik - the name of the plant. Ancient edible crop of China, i.e. corn. Said to be non-sticky millet. Also said to be sorghum