Oats is one of China's miscellaneous crops, divided into lemma oats and naked oats two kinds of oats, people used to lemma oats called "oats", naked oats called "oat". In fact, oats and oat, but also a peeling a non-peeling, oats are not easy to peel, so it is known as skin oats, the "Materia Medica" called sparrow wheat, wild wheat

Oats particles are long and slender cylindrical, fusiform, with a lot of velvet at the top, the grains of wheat by the hull of the surroundings, the color is white, yellow, grey, quilted, black. Oats originated in the Armenian region of Central Asia and evolved from the wild oat. Avena sativa, scientifically known as naked oat, is the quality of oats cultivated in China. Avena sativa has many names in China, North China called "oil wheat", Northwest called "jade wheat", Northeast called "bell wheat".

It is hardy by nature and grows in dry and barren places, such as the north and south of the Yinshan Mountains. This place is full of sunshine, very suitable for the growth of oat. It is rich in phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids and other nutrients needed by the human body, high protein content, while the content of fat is extremely low, very favorable to human health.