Ancient Chinese food
When you think of Chinese food you think of rice, andrice was the first grain that was farmed in China. There is archaeological evidence of rice farming along the Yang-tse River as early as about 5000 BC. People cooked rice by boiling it in water, the way they do today. Or they made it into wine. Rice wine has been popular in China since prehistory.Another food people associate with China is tea. Tea grows wild in China.These were the main foods of China - rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat. In northern China, people mostly ate millet, wheat, and sorghum. In southern China, people mostly ate rice. Poor people ate almost nothing but these foods.When people could afford it, they bought or grew vegetables to put on their rice. Soybeans, for instance, are native to China. So are cucumbers. For fruits, the Chinese had oranges and lemons, peachesand apricots. The native flavorings are ginger and anise.
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History of China
Modern humans first came to China from Central Asia or India about 50,000 BC. These were Stone Age people, who lived in caves with their dogs and wore fur andleather. They hunted andgathered their food. By around 4000 BC, these people were starting to farm rice and keep sheep andchickens. By about 3000 BC, they were usingpottery and living in houses, and they soon afterward learned from Central Asian people how to use horses to pull wheeled chariots.
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