We often mention words such as "six parents deny", "whole grains" and "five elements are short of water". Which "six relatives" do you mean? What five kinds of grains do "five grains" refer to? What do you mean by "five elements"? Well, it is necessary for children to master cultural common sense. Only when they understand the meaning can they apply what they have learned!

What is grain?

There are many different versions of the grain, and there are two most important ones: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice; 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.

People often refer to the first kind of grains: rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice.

1, rice: commonly known as rice, is an annual aquatic herb in Gramineae. Rice is an important grain widely planted in tropical Asia. South China is the main rice producing area, and it is also cultivated in northern provinces. Seeds are mainly divided into two subspecies, indica and japonica. Subspecies include many cultivated varieties. Use ripe caryopsis as medicine. Sweet and warm. And digestion, spleen, appetite.

2, millet: millet shell, that is, yellow rice, its son is sticky after cooking, and can make wine and cakes. Because it is not conducive to digestion, "millet" is basically not used as a staple food now.

3. Xiaomi: also known as Xiaomi, it is drought-tolerant and has many varieties. Commonly known as "colorful millet", including white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet and sticky millet. The earliest wine in China was also made from millet. Millet is suitable for growing in arid areas without irrigation. Its stems and leaves are hard and can be used as feed. Generally only cows can digest it. The staple food now is basically not "millet".

4. Wheat: one of the staple foods of human beings. When it is ground into flour, it can be made into bread, steamed bread, biscuits, noodles and other foods. After fermentation, it can be made into beer, alcohol, liquor or biomass fuel. Almost all wheat is used as food, and only one sixth is used as feed. The two river basins are the earliest areas for growing wheat in the world, and China is one of the earliest countries for growing wheat in the world.

5, glutinous rice: the floorboard of beans, the old saying goes: "Glutinous rice is the strongest. It was called _ in ancient times and "bean" in Chinese. This word is called "Ji". Losers are a general term for many beans. But soybeans say glutinous, bean seedlings say Huo, and adzuki beans say _. " Bean products are also one of China people's favorite foods.

What does grain mean?

Grain "millet, millet, wheat, rice, rice" refers to:

1. Xiaomi: Xiaomi has a shell, that is, yellow rice. Its seeds are sticky when cooked and can be used to make wine and cakes. Because it is not conducive to digestion, "millet" is basically not used as a staple food now.

2. Xiaomi: also known as Xiaomi, it is drought-tolerant and has many varieties. Commonly known as "colorful millet", including white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet and sticky millet.

3, wheat, a kind of Gramineae, a kind of grain, divided into wheat, barley and other types.

4, glutinous rice: the floorboard of beans, the old saying goes: "Glutinous rice is the strongest. It was called _ in ancient times and "bean" in Chinese. This word is called "Ji". Losers are a general term for many beans. But soybeans say glutinous, bean seedlings say Huo, and adzuki beans say _. " Bean products are also one of China people's favorite foods.

5. Rice is a straight cereal crop of Gramineae, and its main type is "rice" cultivated in soil.

Extended data:

1. Grain culture plays an important role and can be said to be the origin of human civilization. According to authoritative data, hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans have observed traces of sorghum on stone tools, indicating that grains have been pregnant with humans for more than 100 thousand years. It is a feat in human history to cultivate weeds into coarse grains, which gave birth to human civilization. At the same time, it tells the world that human beings have an indissoluble bond with grains. Grain painting is the highest artistic embodiment and portrayal of grain culture.

2. Millet, millet and other crops in the five grains have the characteristics of drought tolerance, barren tolerance and short growth period, so they occupy a particularly important position in the original cultivation of dry land in the north. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the characteristics of "keeping old is easy to do" were discovered, and together with millet, it became an indispensable food for people at that time.

3. Five-grain sauce is a powder baked at low temperature by various health-preserving five-grain raw materials. It has not been expanded, and no quick solvent is added in the processing process, so it can retain the nutrients of raw materials most completely.

4. Cereals mainly refer to the seeds of plants. Including rice, wheat, soybeans and other miscellaneous grains, such as millet, black rice, buckwheat, oats, coix seed, sorghum and so on.

Grain is a processed staple food. It mainly provides 50%~80% of heat energy, 40%~70% of protein and more than 60% of vitamin B 1.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Grain

What is grain?

In Huangdi Neijing, grain is considered as "japonica rice, adzuki bean, wheat, soybean and millet", while in Mencius Teng Wengong, grain is called "rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice" and also called "barley, wheat, rice, adzuki bean and flax" in Buddhist sacrifices.