Assertion: soybean | /r/HasProperty | sacred
Facets:
value: since ancient times in china
type: TEMPORAL
value: prior to fermented products
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Prior to fermented products such as fermented black soybeans (douchi), jiang (Chinese miso), soy sauce, tempeh, nattō, and miso, soy was considered sacred for its beneficial effects in crop rotation, and it was eaten by itself, and as bean curd and soy milk.
text: Since ancient times in China the soybean was considered the most important cultivated legume and one of the five sacred grains (called wu-ku in Chinese and go-koku in Japanese); namely millet ( shu ), millet ( chi ; both these millets are subspecies of Panicum miliaceum ), rice ( tao ), wheat and barley ( mai ), and soybeans ( shu ).