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The sense of holiness or sacredness regarding the Five Grains proceeds from their traditional ascription to the saintly rulers credited with creating China's civilization. They were seen not merely as five crops chosen from many options but as the source permitting
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grains or staple crops of which the end produce is of a granular nature. The identity of the five grains has varied over time, with different authors identifying different grains or even categories of grains.
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By the time of written records, the development of agriculture in China had become greatly mythologized. There were various traditions regarding which of the early Chinese leaders introduced the Five Grains:
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in which five dry seeds are placed into a slot in the chimney of the stove. Casual worshippers may simply use any five beans (e.g., of different colors) instead of any particular set of grains.
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was seen as an embodiment of this society, one's behavior towards the Five Grains could take on political meaning: as a protest against the overthrow of the
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ostentatiously refused to eat the Five Grains. Such rejections of the grains for political reasons underwent a complex development into the concept of
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This article is about the five grain crops important to China. For the five grain crops that cause leavening at Passover, see
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There are various versions of which five crops (or even broad categories of crops) are meant by this list.
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Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford companion to food, p. 305, article on "five grains of China"
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is not known for any single recipe using all five grains, so there is no grain equivalent of
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Assortments of five grains continue to be used in ritual contexts, as in the
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itself. "Squandering the Five Grains" was seen as a sin worthy of torment in
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credited with the development of agriculture. He was often conflated with
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are granularity and diversity, as the images below may help to show:
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A Buddhist Classification of Animals and Plants in Early Tang China
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One modern Chinese dictionary notes other candidates including
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Then later people were able to fry dishes in sesame oil.
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who is described as a Zhou prince later deified as the
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Shennong planted the five grains and they all survived,
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Because they were helped by the six species of trees.
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Shennong was pleased that he got two seeds of them.
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to whom Wǔgǔ offerings are made in some traditions.
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Index

Five Cereals (China)
Five species of grain

Zao Jun
Kitchen God
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
farmed
crops
ancient China
mythological
supernatural
synecdoche
agrarian society
civilization
Diyu
emperor
Shang dynasty
Zhou
Boyi and Shuqi
bigu
Taoist
immortality
Chinese mythology
Great Flood of China
Shennong

Shennong
Han dynasty

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