Chinese Food

This is the food they ate. its dumplings

When you think of Chinese food many people automatically think rice. In fact, rice is a main staple of food for Asian people. Rice is a grain and it is grown throughout the region as it is still today. Farmers grow rice in paddies, then when it is harvested they take it to the city to sell.

Emperor Qin would have great banquets where food was plentiful. People were also able to take the rice and make rice wine. This was served to the guests in the great banquet hall.

Of course another staple in Ancient China and still very much today is tea. Tea leaves are plentiful in China. They are picked, and pressed and added with water. At all meals and in between tea is served. Did you know that if a tea pot is placed on the table and the spout is facing the guest it is considered an insult.

Another staple in China that was used for food was millet. Millet is a small-grain that is ground down and used as ceral.

These were the main foods of China - rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat. In northern China, people mostly ate millet, wheat, and sorghum. In southern China, people mostly ate rice. Poor people ate almost nothing but these foods.