2. China porridge culture: In the recorded history of China, traces of porridge have been accompanied. The writing about porridge was first seen in Zhou Shu: The Yellow Emperor began to cook cereal for porridge.
3. The porridge in China was mainly used for eating 4000 years ago, and was first used as medicine 2500 years ago. The Biography of Historical Records of Bian Que and Cang Gong records that Chunyu Kun, a famous doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, treated Wang Qi's disease with "Hodge porridge"; Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the Han Dynasty, wrote in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Taking Guizhi Decoction for a period of time and drinking a liter of hot porridge to help medicine are powerful examples.
4. In the Middle Ages, the function of porridge was to highly integrate "edible" and "medicinal" and enter the level of "health preservation" with humanistic color.
In Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo wrote a book saying: I was hungry at night, and Wu advised me to eat rice porridge. Clouds can push Chen Zhixin and benefit my stomach. Porridge is fast and beautiful, and it's wonderful to sleep after eating porridge. Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, also strongly recommended eating porridge for health preservation, believing that it could prolong life. He once wrote a poem "Eat porridge": "Everyone in the world is an old man, but I didn't realize that at present I want to learn from the people and only eat porridge from the gods." As a result, the world's understanding of porridge has risen to a new height.
6. It can be seen that the relationship between porridge and China people is as thick as porridge itself. As a traditional food, porridge is more important in China than in any other country in the world.