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The wheat fields in Hua County, Anyang, Henan, look more like matcha cakes. Photography/Shi Yaochen
The big rivers and big granaries, the Chinese people’s care and attachment to food are carved in their bones.
Everyone knows that the rice in the Northeast is delicious. Henan is the hometown of wheat, and even the sorghum in Shandong has become a profound touch of red in contemporary literature.
There is one more sentence that is never forgotten in our textbooks: China uses 7% of the world’s land to feed 22% of the world’s population.
To this day, this sentence has taken on a new attitude. China’s population accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world’s population, and its grain output accounts for approximately one-quarter of the world’s. The days when the Chinese can’t eat enough have passed, and the goal of eating well is in the future.
Henan people grow grain. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Henan accounts for 6.2% of the country’s arable land and produces 10% of China’s grain, and the production of wheat accounts for 1/4 of China. The food in Henan not only feeds this province with the largest agricultural population in China, but also supplies 40 billion catties to the whole country every year.
Besides being able to grow grain, Henan people are also good at using grain. Flour is used to make quick-frozen dumplings and produce biscuits, and Henan has achieved the first place in the country. What the flour can do, Henan people can send them to the factory, and take advantage of the communication artery that grows in the Central Plains to the whole country. Speaking of the “Beijing” brand of instant noodles that many people had in their childhoods that were not delicious, and sprinkled with some seasonings, they were actually from the Nanjiecun brand of Henan.
From “can grow” to “can eat”, Henan can be called the epitome of China’s granary.
Luohe Nanjie Village, Henan, a national agricultural tourism demonstration site. Photography/Shi Yaochen
Where did the “land of fish and rice” come from? Yangtze!
Compared with the temper of the Yellow River, the other mother river, the Yangtze River, is much milder. As early as two thousand years ago, the Chengdu Plain in the Yangtze River began to become a famous granary. The “land of fish and rice” is synonymous with an important granary, and most of it falls in the water villages along the Yangtze River. There are two simple and far-reaching proverbs that outline a road to the leap of an agricultural civilization.
“Su Lake is cooked, the world is full”
“Huguang is familiar, the world is sufficient”
Su Hushu refers to Suzhou and Huzhou. Of course this