Anciently known as the five grains, the five grains are also the basic rations on which mankind depends.

What are the five grains?

The five grains are the staple grains that people consume in their daily lives over a long period of time, i.e., rice, wheat, corn, millet and beans. Rice is rice, rice is the main crop in the south of China, rice can be planted according to the different seasons are divided into early rice, rice and late rice; according to the varieties can be divided into indica rice, round-grained rice and glutinous rice; according to the color of transparent, milky white, red rice and black rice and other varieties.

Wheat is the main dryland crop in the north of China, varieties of barley and wheat two. Wheat is the main raw material for flour milling, while barley is mostly used for feed and making beverages, wheat is high in calories, rich in nutrients, making more varieties, easy to operate, but also one of the people's common diet. Corn is millet, China's arid and rainy northwest of the dry crop, millet fine and glutinous, palatable and nutritious are not bad, generally making millet porridge as much.

Millet is a kind of yellow millet looks like corn, generally for fodder grain and wine, so it is usually called wine rice. Beans that is soybean or soybean, this is a kind of food and food as agricultural products, soybean also has many varieties and colors, different varieties of its nutritional value and harvest season varies. Soybeans can be used to make cooking oil, soybean products and livestock feed, and are one of the more dependent crops in people's daily lives.

What is a mixed grain?

And miscellaneous grains are actually included in the five grains, for now, mainly refers to the lack of fine processing can be called miscellaneous grains, such as corn, soybeans, oats, brown rice, buckwheat, etc., the diet is often added to these, not only to help the body to provide the necessary nutrients, but also to prevent constipation, and to promote the health of blood vessels.

The source of the reference to "grains"

The earliest record of grains is the "Analects. The first record of the five grains was the Analects of Confucius, when Confucius and his disciples were traveling, and Zi Lu fell behind and asked an old farmer with a burden, where is Fu Zi? This old farmer's answer is very funny: four bodies are not hard work, the five grains, who is the husband of the son?

The old farmer thought Zi Lu was asking about grains, so he said something like this. The four bodies refer to the two hands and two feet, and the five grains at that time referred to: rice (rice), millet (yellow rice), jik (millet,), wheat, and peas (beans), and at that time these five types of grains were the main food for the people. In the earlier Shijing and Shujing, there was no such thing as "five grains", but only "a hundred grains", which referred to all kinds of edible grains.

Why are grains the most nutritious?

Medieval antiquity is very respected dietary nutritional balance, "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" in the very fine, the text mentioned: five grains for nutrition, five fruits for the help, five animals for the benefit of the five dishes for the full.

Here's five grains, five fruits, five animals, five dishes cut not to be right, here is the diversity of food and balanced to meet the needs of the human body, the specific how to do also depends on the actual situation. Cereal types, fruit types, meat types, vegetable types after thousands of years of development and integration, and now there has been a major development, diversification is richer.

Now look, the people of our country's staple food is rice and wheat, to assist some of the miscellaneous grains for supplementation, so that nutrition will be diversified, a variety of the human body needs trace elements and nutrition more comprehensive, effective in preventing the occurrence of certain diseases.