page_title: Five Grains
section_title: Huangdi
hierarchical_section_title: Five Grains / Legendary accounts / Huangdi
caption_attribution_description: English: The Yellow Emperor, one of the mythical Five Sovereigns. Inscription reads: 'The Yellow Emperor created and changed a great many things; he invented weapons and the wells and fields system; he devised upper and lower garments, and established palaces and houses' (Birrell, Chinese Mythology, ISBN 0-8018-6183-7, p.48) / The Yellow Emperor, one of the mythical Five Sovereigns. Inscription reads: 'The Yellow Emperor created and changed a great many things; he invented weapons; he divide fields; he devised upper and lower garments, and established palaces and houses' (周家华, translated according to another understanding. ) 中文: 黄帝多所改作，造兵，井田，垂衣裳，立宫宅
context_page_description: The Five Grains or Cereals are a grouping of five farmed crops that were all important in ancient China. Sometimes the crops themselves were regarded as sacred; other times, their cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source. More generally, wǔgǔ can be employed in Chinese as a synecdoche referring to all grains or staple crops of which the end produce is of a granular nature. The identity of the five grains has varied over time, with different authors identifying different grains or even categories of grains.
context_section_description: Huangdi (lit. "Yellow Emperor"), placed 2699–2588 BC by Sima Qian, was also credited in ancient texts as the first teacher of cultivation to his subjects.
caption: Yellow Emperor (Huangdi)
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