The origin of porridge: Huangdi began to cook grains into porridge.

This sentence comes from Zhou Shu, which means that Huangdi was the first to cook grains into porridge.

In China’s recorded history, traces of porridge have always been with us. It was first seen in the Book of Zhou: Huangdi began to cook grains for porridge.

Chinese porridge was mainly eaten four thousand years ago and was used for medicinal purposes 2,500 years ago.

Extended information:

In the Middle Ages, the function of porridge highly integrated "edible" and "medicinal", entering the "health" level with a humanistic color.

Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty had a note saying: If you are very hungry at night, Wu Ziye advises you to eat white porridge, which can promote the metabolism of the old and promote the new, relieve the diaphragm and benefit the stomach. The porridge is delicious quickly, and the sleep after the porridge is indescribably wonderful.

Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, also strongly recommended eating porridge to maintain health, believing that it can prolong life. He once wrote a poem "Porridge Food": "Everyone in the world learns about years, but they don't realize that years are now. I have Wanqiu." "Eating porridge will lead to immortality." This has raised the world's understanding of porridge to a new level.