The Functions of Millet and Millet in The Book of Songs

Millet: In ancient times, it refers to a kind of millet, whose real name is millet. The leaves are linear and the seeds are light yellow. It is called yellow rice after peeling and sticky after cooking. It is one of the important food crops. In ancient China, hundreds of millet were arranged, and their length was regarded as the standard of one foot, which was called millet ruler. Xiaomi can make wine, cakes and so on.

Xiaomi: commonly known as Xiaomi. Ancient millet is the general term for millet, millet and other grains. Ancient agricultural books are called Liang, and glutinous millet is called Shu. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "valley" refers to millet. Later, people called it a thinner kind of sorghum millet, and northerners called it millet millet. The simple distinction is: big ears, long and thick hair, small ears and short and fine hair. A seedling resembles a thatch. Xiaomi is still planting.

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Millet is a forage crop and small grain in Gramineae. Asia or Africa may have been cultivated a long time ago. Under the southwest corner of building foundation F374, the first phase site of Dadiwan, Qin 'an, Gansu, China, the remains of grain crops-millet and rape carbonized 8,200 years ago were found. Generally, the plant height is 0.3 to 1.3 m (pearl millet can be as high as 1.5 to 3 m).

Spikes or racemes, but there are also panicles. Except for pearl millet, the seed shell does not fall off after threshing, and it is often milky white after peeling. Millet is an important food crop in many parts of Asia, Russia and West Africa. In the United States and western Europe, it was mainly used as pasture or hay, but in medieval Europe, it was also used as the main grain.

There are many kinds of millet, such as pearl millet (a common grain in India and Africa, suitable for poor and dry soil), millet (used as feed in the United States and eaten in Asia and Eastern Europe), millet (also known as millet or millet, planted as hay in North America and Western Europe and an important food crop in China and other Asian countries), which refers to millet (an important food crop in South Asia and parts of Africa) and Japanese millet (in Japan and Japan).

Millet has high carbohydrate content, protein content is about 6% to 1 1%, and fat is about 1.5% to 5%. Millet has a strong fragrance and can't be used to make puffed bread. Mainly used for dried steamed stuffed buns and porridge or rice. The annual output of the world is about 30 million tons, and the main producing countries are Indian, China, Nigerian and Russian.