Pinyin: liùgǔ

English: [six crops]

Interpretation: In ancient times, it refers to six crops: rice, millet, millet, sorghum, wheat and water chestnut.

"Zhou Li Tianguan Fu Shan" records: "Any king who eats it, eats six grains, eats six animals and drinks six wines is ashamed to put 120 articles. Jane used eight things and 100 cans of sauce. Every day, ten people have two pots, and everything has its own dishes.

In ancient times, water bamboo was called water bamboo.

Grains are millet, beans, hemp, wheat and rice. Five ancient cereals. There are many sayings about "five grains" in ancient times, and there are two main ones: 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 is that the former has rice without hemp, while the latter has hemp without rice. The ancient economic and cultural center was in the Yellow River valley, and the main rice producing area was in the south, while the rice planting in the north was limited, so there was no rice in the original "five grains". "Valley" originally refers to grains with shells; Like rice, millet (millet, that is, millet) and millet (also known as yellow rice), there are shells outside, so they are called valleys. The sound of the word Gu comes from the sound of shells. Grains were originally called grains in ancient China, and later referred to food crops.

The five grains are millet, millet (millet), rice, wheat and glutinous rice.

Commonly known as corn (yellow rice), millet (commonly known as millet in the north), rice (commonly known as rice), wheat (the main material for making flour) and soybean.