The five grains of rice, wheat, millet, peas and grain are pronounced dào mài shǔ jì shū.

The crops that rice, wheat, millet, soybeans, and sorghum refer to, respectively, are rice, wheat, millet, soybeans, and sorghum.

Rice is one of the most important food crops for human beings and has a long history of cultivation and consumption. Half of the world's population now eats rice, mainly in Asia, southern Europe and parts of tropical America and Africa.

Wheat, barley, oats, rye and so on. The seeds are mainly used for grain or as concentrate feed, brewing, and making caramel. The culms are used for weaving or papermaking.

Millet is called yellow rice after peeling, slightly larger than millet, and sticky when cooked.

Jik refers to corn or the genus millet, an ancient Chinese edible crop said to be non-sticky millet and sorghum.

Peas is a general term for beans, the old saying goes: Beans are the strongest crop. Anciently known as 尗, Han said the beans, the word for beans. Beans, the general name of the beans. However, the soybean said beans, bean seedlings said Huo, small beans are said to agree. Bean products are also one of the Chinese people's favorite food.

"Five grains" said:

"Five grains", there are a variety of different sayings in ancient times, the most important two: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat, beans; another refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat, beans. The difference between the two is: the former has rice without hemp, the latter has hemp without rice. Ancient economic and cultural center in the Yellow River basin, the main source of rice in the South, and the North planted rice is limited, so the "five grains" in the initial no rice.