"The Yellow Emperor cooks and dies as a kitchen god" (Huai Nan Zi), "The Five Kinds of Huang Di's Arts" (Records of the Five Emperors), "The Yellow Emperor cooks the cauldron" and "The Yellow Emperor started steaming the grain for rice and cooking the grain for porridge" (Textual Research on Ancient History in Qiao Zhou, Three Kingdoms). We know that in the distant Shennong era, our ancestors had ended the state of "eating like fur and drinking blood", learned to use fire and cooked food, and learned to make simple cookers. After a long time, in the era of the Yellow Emperor, people finally improved the pit into a stove, and they could make an earliest steamer-Tao Zan according to the principle of steam heating.

The concept of "eating" came into being by steaming rice and cooking porridge. What is a meal? Rice and porridge are cooked cereal foods, and they are also the general names of foods that people eat regularly every day, including main and non-staple foods. The ancient book "Ji Shi Cai Tang" ("Da Dai Li Ji") refers to a meal composed of Ji Shi (staple food) and vegetable soup. This is a new change in the diet structure of our nation brought by "steaming grain for rice" in the Yellow Emperor. In the early primitive society, our ancestors mainly made a living by hunting, fishing and collecting the fruits and stems of wild plants, and often mainly used meat; Since the era of the Yellow Emperor, with the development of agriculture, people's one-time eating has been changed to meals, supplemented by vegetables and a small amount of meat, which is also a meal. This diet has continued to this day. In the later period of primitive society, the population increased gradually, and the ready-made food raw materials became less and less. The Yellow Emperor led his subjects, plowed the land with knives and burned the fire, and developed primitive agriculture. On the vast land of the Yellow River Basin, pieces of flat green fields appeared. The "Five Kinds of Arts" advocated by the Yellow Emperor is to widely plant five kinds of cereals, namely, millet, millet, paddy, wheat and rice. His practice of "comforting all the people" is, first of all, Guan Xinmin food to solve people's eating problems. In this respect, the Yellow Emperor and Yao, Shun and Yu who inherited him are all models. China has a long history of food culture, and its connotation is profound. Knowing China's food culture can help us better understand taste of china's dishes and appreciate China's ancient cultural traditions.