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The Five Grains or Cereals (traditional Chinese: 五穀; simplified Chinese: 五谷; pinyin: Wǔ Gǔ) are a set of five farmed crops that were important in ancient China. In modern Chinese wǔgǔ refers to rice, wheat, foxtail millet, proso millet and soybeans. It is also used as term for all grain crops in general.
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| the Tang-era monk Daoxuan | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| who combined traditional Chinese | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| Buddhist classifications of plants | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| animals in his Ritual of Measuring | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| Handling Light | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| Heavy Property in which he lists five categories of grains including those mentioned in Buddhist | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| Chinese texts.The term | instance of | and the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists | 0.80 | text |
| Five Grains | related to history | The | 0.60 | section |
| Five Grains | related to history | Analects | 0.60 | section |
| Five Grains | related to history | Han | 0.60 | section |
| Five Grains | related to history | The Classic | 0.60 | section |
| Five Grains | related to history | Rites | 0.60 | section |
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