Congee Pinyin: porridge, a first-class Chinese character, pronounced as porridge (zhōu or yù). porridge, congee, thick porridge, broken pieces of porridge, painting porridge, porridge molasses, milk porridge, an ethnic group of porridge, porridge for sale, porridge, put porridge

In the history of China's written history, porridge has always been accompanied by the trace of porridge. The earliest text about porridge is found in the Book of Zhou: Huangdi began to cook grain for porridge.

Chinese porridge in 4,000 years ago, mainly for food, 2,500 years ago for medicinal purposes, the "Records of the Grand Historian" magpie Cangong biography contains the Western Han Dynasty famous doctor Chun Yu Yi (Cangong) with "fire Qi congee" to cure the King of Qi; the Han Dynasty medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, "the theory of typhoid fever," said: Gui Zhi Tang, service has been a moment to sip hot porridge more than a liter to help the medicine is a powerful example. The first time I saw this is when I was a young man and I had to go to the hospital for a few days.

Entering the Middle Ages, the function of porridge is "edible", "medicinal" highly integrated into the humanistic "health" level.

Song dynasty Su Dongpo has a book posting said: night hunger, Wu Zi wild advice to eat white porridge, cloud can push the new, diaphragm benefit stomach. Porridge is fast and beautiful, porridge after a sleep, wonderful.

Lu You, a famous poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, also highly recommended porridge health, that can prolong life, has made "porridge food" poem: "the world learns long years, do not realize that long years in the present, I get the Wanyuanqiu Pingyi method, only porridge to the immortal." Thus, the world's understanding of porridge to a new realm.

See, porridge and the relationship between the Chinese people, just like porridge itself, thick and sticky dense, together; porridge as a traditional food, in the heart of the Chinese people's status is more than any other nation in the world.