Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 18

In addition, there are two large granaries in his house, which are full of grain, which is about a thousand catties by visual inspection, and they feel very safe at first glance.

Commonly known as "five grains" refers to the five grains. There are many different terms for "five grains" in ancient times, and there are two main ones: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat, and bean; the other refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat, and bean.The difference between the two is: the former has rice but no hemp, while the latter has hemp but no rice.

The ancient economic and cultural center was in the Yellow River Basin, and the main production area of ​​rice was in the south, while the cultivation of rice in the north was limited, so there was no rice in the "five grains" at first.

Most of the places where rice is grown now are in Chu State, because that is Jiangnan.

"Valley" originally refers to grains with shells; rice, millet (meaning, that is, millet), millet (also known as yellow rice), etc. have a shell on the outside, so they are called valleys.The sound of Gu character comes from the sound of shell.Five grains were originally the five kinds of grains called in ancient times, and later generally refer to food crops.

There are two main theories about five grains. The mainstream ones are rice (commonly known as rice, rice), millet (shǔ, commonly known as yellow rice), millet (jì, also known as millet, commonly known as millet), wheat (commonly known as wheat, used for making flour), Shu (commonly known as soybean).

Due to the arid climate in some places, it is not conducive to the cultivation of rice, so hemp (commonly known as pockmark) is used instead of rice as one of the five grains.

"Da Dai Li Ji Yi Ben Ming", a collection of etiquette works before the Qin and Han Dynasties, said: "Those who eat meat are brave and brave, those who eat grains are wise and ingenious, those who eat air are gods and live long, and those who do not eat do not die and become gods."

Therefore, people in the Qin Dynasty believed that eating meat was the main food, and grains and the like were for the common people, but what did the slaves eat?

Leftovers are nothing, mainly because they can’t eat meat, and ordinary people seldom eat meat, most of them hunt game for meat.

"The Analects of Confucius Xiangdang": "Although there is a lot of meat, it does not make the food more powerful." This is when Confucius was a noble in the Zhou Dynasty, according to the living habits of the nobles, the staple food (grain) should occupy the largest proportion.

However, the ancestors of Daqin first grazed the emperor of Zhou. They were carnivorous animals, and the tradition of being vegetarian was not passed down at all. However, they did not eat only meat, but mainly meat, supplemented by grains and vegetables.

This is different from the dietary structure of several other countries, so people from other countries will think that Qin is low and barbaric.

After looking at his family's property, Li Jiyang started looking through the account books when he came back.

The writing of the Qin State has not been unified yet, but the records of the Li family are all in their own language, and Li Jiyang can barely understand some of them. Fortunately, during the archeology at that time, he had a lot of experience with his tutor.

In the evening, the burial began. The ancients also did the burial when the sun was about to set. The tomb was built on the mountain in the west. It was a big tomb surrounded by evergreen pines and cypresses.

As the only heir, Li Jiyang was going to be buried of course.

At this time, I didn't pay much attention to it, but the burial objects should be the same as before. Li Jiyang watched the good things being put into the tomb one by one, not to mention being greedy, these are all cultural relics!

Artifacts!

Cultural relics from the pre-Qin period!

Just buried with the dead!

The housekeeper looked at the young master's eyes, thinking that the young master was concerned about the funeral objects, but these things were used by the hostess during her lifetime, so it's okay not to be buried with her!

But the young master looked very distressed, so he had to secretly order people not to be buried with him except for some items, so as not to make the young master angry.

But the servants muttered to themselves, after all, it wasn't their own, the funeral objects are so thin!

Some slaves of the old woman were dissatisfied with the thinness of the burial objects, so they approached Li Jiyang and asked for more burial objects.

"The family has experienced so many things, how can there be so many funeral objects?" Li Jiyang, who was already distressed by those good things, completely broke out.

When he saw the tomb, he resisted to study it. He was already in a bad mood. Now is there anyone who is against him?