: The eighth day is believed to be the birthday of millet, an important crop in ancient China.
Other places in North China replace glutinous rice with glutinous yellow millet, and these days, some folks replace white glutinous rice with purple rice.
: The eighth day is believed to be the birthday of millet, an important crop in ancient China.
"Overuse of fertilisers has contaminated our groundwater," said Nad, who farms millet, sorghum and groundnut.
People in the capital city fry broomcorn millet flour, cakes made of wheat flour and dates, husked wheat rice, and other things as their food.
And the ingredients they discovered are as eclectic as any trendy brewpub's: broomcorn millet, tubers and a grain known as Job's tears.
The scientific analysis of the food and other offerings in the Emperor's tomb complex have also revealed that, as well as tea, he was determined to take millet, rice and chenopod with him to the next life.
Across town the 500-seat Yonghe Fine Food City gives a new spin on traditional dishes, with must-tries like golden millet pudding studded with tiny orange sea buckthorn berries.
There are many kinds of snacks in Beijing,and quick-boiled tripe,enema,jellied bead curd,fermented bean drink,fry liver,seasoned millet mush,sheep head meat,bittern boil,burn,end nest nest,honeyed fried dough twist,fry cakes,pea flour cake,etc.
One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, "Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I shall never get my work done, and in order that she may not miss her way," he added, "I will take a bag of millet with me and strew the seeds on the path.
"For instance, we have Western and Chinese bakers working together to invent new desserts, combining Beijing's traditional bean cake with tiramisu filling, or our snail roll using millet flour pancakes from Shandong, and our steamed Cantonese pork roll matched with Japanese tempura.
I like millet congee.
One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, let our eldest daughter bring me my dinner into the forest, or I shall never get my work done, and in order that she may not miss her way, he added, I will take a bag of millet with me and strew the seeds on the path.
