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Five Grains

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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related to history · 24
Five Grains → Analects, China, Chinese, Darkness, Epic, Han, Houji, In, Lu Jia, Mencius, Millet, Rice, Rites, Shennong, Similarly, The, The Classic, The Huangdi Neijing, The Rites, Wugu
related to Holiness · 13
Five Grains → As, Boyi, China's, Chinese, Diyu, Shang, Shuqi, Squandering, Such, Taoist, The, They, Zhou

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rice grains five millet hemp chinese wheat soybeans culture bc china foxtail also crops proso term lists beans yellow citation

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the Tang-era monk Daoxuaninstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
who combined traditional Chineseinstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
Buddhist classifications of plantsinstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
animals in his Ritual of Measuringinstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
Handling Lightinstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
Heavy Property in which he lists five categories of grains including those mentioned in Buddhistinstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
Chinese texts.The terminstance ofand the Yellow Emperor.The traditional Chinese concept of five grains was later assimilated by Chinese Buddhists and Taoists0.80text
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Five Grainsrelated to historyAnalects0.60section
Five Grainsrelated to historyHan0.60section
Five Grainsrelated to historyThe Classic0.60section
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