Five Grains

This article is about the five grain crops important to China. For the five grain crops that cause leavening at Passover, see Five species of grain.
Zao Jun the Kitchen God to whom Wǔgǔ offerings are made in some traditions.

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.[1][2] It is also used as term for all grain crops in general.[3]

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