解码汉字39 “黍”是中国最早种植的谷物。 39 "millet" is the earliest grain planted in China.

39  “黍”是中国最早种植的谷物。

黍   甲骨文象多穗下垂之禾谷形。旁注水字，表示黍子可以煮酒。《说文》注：“禾属而黏者也。以大暑而种，故谓之黍。从禾，雨省声。”孔子曰：“黍可为酒，禾入水也。”黍是一种籽粒似粟且具粘性之农作物。孔子说黍可酿酒，故以禾入水会意。

黍 (名) millet

《维基百科》介绍：中国栽培黍子的历史十分悠久，河北磁山新石器遗址保存的早期农作物籽实灰化样品的定年测试，发现距今约10000—8700年前种植的是黍，而粟则在距今约8700—7500年期间少量出现。
中国北方不仅关于黍子的遗址多、时代久远，而且还发现了黍子的大量野生种和品种类型，这些都是中国作为黍子起源地的佐证。目前世界各国学界基本采纳了栽培黍起源于中国的观点。
在《诗经·魏风》中有这样脍炙人口的诗句：“硕鼠硕鼠，无食我黍”，可见黍的栽培在先秦时期的重要意义。



39 "millet" is the earliest grain planted in China.

The millet is shaped like a cereal with many spikes. Margin of water words, that millet can cook wine. Confucius said: "millet can be wine, Wo into the water also." Millet is a kind of "millet is a kind of millet." Grain like millet and a sticky crop. Confucius said millet can be wine, so Wo into the water knowing.

Millet (millet)


The history of Chinese cultivated millet has a long history, and the dating test of early crop seed ashes preserved in the magnetic field of Neolithic sites in Hebei, China, found that about 10,000-8,700 years ago, While the millet is about 8700 - 7500 years ago, a small amount of time.
In northern China, not only the site of millet is long, but also a large number of wild species and cultivars of millet are found in China. These are all evidence of the origin of millet in China. At present, scholars from all over the world have adopted the view that cultivated millet originated in China.

In the "Book of Songs · Wei Feng" in this popular poem: "Shuoshuoshuoshu, no food I millet", we can see millet cultivation in the pre-Qin period significance.