Ji is a Chinese character, pronounced sh. The seal script "ga" means to grow like a bean. After writing "Feng", it becomes a pictophonetic character, with "Fu (Cao)" as the phonetic notation and "Shu" as the phonetic notation. "Zizania latifolia" is the general term for beans.

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"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.

There are two main views about grain. Mainstream rice (commonly known as rice, rice), millet (commonly known as yellow rice), millet (Jiì, also known as millet, commonly known as millet), wheat (commonly known as wheat for flour) and glutinous rice (commonly known as soybean). Because the dry climate in some places is not conducive to the cultivation of rice, hemp (commonly known as pockmarked) is used instead of rice as one of the five grains.

Millet: Millet is shelled, that is, yellow rice. When cooked, its son becomes sticky and can be used to make wine and cakes. Because it is not conducive to digestion, "millet" is basically not used as a staple food now.

Xiaomi: Also known as Xiaomi, it is drought-tolerant and has many varieties, commonly known as "colorful millet", including white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet and sticky millet. The earliest wine in China was also made from millet. Millet is suitable for growing in arid areas without irrigation. Its stems and leaves are hard and can be used as feed. Generally only cows can digest it. The staple food now is basically not "millet".

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