Grains are the general name of food crops, and grain porridge refers to porridge cooked with grains, not specifically which kinds of grains. Five-grain porridge is mainly made of five grains, and at the same time, appropriate ingredients such as red dates, peanuts, barley and medlar are added, which is very fragrant.

There are two raw material formulas of cereal, one is red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans and kidney beans; The other is red beans, mung beans, soybeans, black beans and purple rice.

Cereals refer to rice, yellow rice, millet, wheat and soybeans. However, there are many kinds of miscellaneous grains, such as rice, wheat, soybean, corn, potato, rice, flour, crane, vine, root, horn and spike, all of which are miscellaneous grains.

Wheat is also a very common grain, like all kinds of flour usually used are actually wheat flour. Northerners like pasta very much, but in fact they prefer wheat as their staple food.

There are also many kinds of sayings about five grains, mainly two kinds: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice; The other refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice.

The difference between the two statements is that the former has rice without hemp, the latter has hemp without rice, and the raw grain has no rice, because the ancient economic and cultural center is in the Yellow River Basin, the main rice producing area is in the south, and less rice is planted in the north.