Panicum miliaceum, widely cultivated in warm climate. As the staple food of human beings, seeds, chaff and other by-products can be used to feed livestock, and rice stalks can be used to make paper.

Divided into rice and upland rice, usually refers to rice. The seed is called millet, and it is called rice after grinding and hulling. There are glutinous rice, japonica rice and indica rice.

2. Shu Shu (three tones)

Millet, with linear leaves and light yellow seeds, is called yellow rice after peeling, which is slightly larger than millet and sticky after cooking. Millet is a forage crop and small grain in Gramineae. Asia or Africa may have been cultivated more than 4000 years ago.

3. Gigi (four tones)

Wheat, or whole grains (japonica rice, adzuki bean, wheat, soybean, millet).

4. Mai Mai (four tones)

(1) Annual or biennial herbs are important food crops in northern China. Their seeds are edible and can also be used for brewing wine and sugar: wheat | barley | rye | oat.

② Especially wheat.

5. Shushu (1)

The general term for beans.

brief introduction

Rice, millet and wheat grains are collectively referred to as "five grains", and there are two main types: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and rice grains; 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".

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.