1, Japonica rice means: Japonica rice milled rice

2, the specific explanation: "Southern History - Xu Xiaoke biography": "(Xu Xiaoke) family wall, the mother of the birth of the disease, want to Japonica rice for the gruel, can not always do." The Dream of the Red Chamber, Fourth Second: "This one is loaded with two buckets of Japonica rice from the Royal Field, and it is rare to make congee." Hong Shen, "Fragrant Rice," Act I: "This five-double-double grain of fragrant rice is still exchanged for japonica rice from someone else's house."

3. Japonica rice is the seed kernel of Japonica rice, also known as paddy rice, is the finished product of rice grain, and its production process includes hulling, milling, and finishing the finished product. Japonica rice is mainly produced in northeastern China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, and is also grown on a larger scale in Tianjin, Jiangsu, Hubei, and Henan, China. The grains of Japonica rice are generally oval or round. Japonica rice grains are plump and fat, and nearly round in cross-section. The color is waxy white, transparent or translucent. Japonica rice texture is hard and tough.

4, Japonica rice in China as food for at least two thousand years of history, medicinal first contained in the "famous doctors," its efficacy as "the main benefit of gas, stopping boredom, stopping ejaculation." Japonica rice grain shape is short and broad, oval, according to the different harvest season, divided into early Japonica rice and late Japonica rice two kinds. Japonica rice contains a large amount of carbohydrates, about 79%, and is the main source of calories. Japonica rice is rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and B vitamins and other nutrients, has the role of nourishing yin and Jin, in addition to the annoyance of thirst, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and replenish the lung gas.