Millet was first planted in the Yellow River valley in northern China.

Xiaomi, also called Xiaomi, is called Xiaomi in the north. Millet is millet, with small grains and a diameter of about1mm. Millet is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, and it is also the main food crop in ancient China. Therefore, Xia and Shang Dynasties belong to "millet culture".

Millet grows drought-tolerant, and there are many varieties, commonly known as "colorful millet", including white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple millet and sticky millet. The earliest wine in China was also brewed with millet, and China has a long history of planting millet. Neolithic cultural sites where millet grains were unearthed, such as Xi 'an banpo village, Cishan in Hebei, Peiligang in Henan, have been around for six or seven thousand years.

Xiaomi, which people usually eat, was first cultivated from Setaria viridis, also called millet. It belongs to foxtail millet in Gramineae, and we eat its peeled seeds. Millet is also one of the earliest crops in the world. It originated in China, and now the largest cultivated country in the world is China. Xiaomi's ancestor is dog tail grass.

Introduction to Setaria viridis:

Annual green bristlegrass. Roots are whisker-like, and tall plants have supporting roots. The culm is erect or bent at the base, the leaf sheath is loose, hairless or sparsely pilose or verrucose, the tongue is extremely short, the leaves are flat, and the Yangtze River Delta is narrowly lanceolate or linearly lanceolate. Panicle compactly cylindrical or slightly farther at base.

The flowering and fruiting period is May-65438+1October. Produced in all parts of China; Born in the wilderness and roadside, it is a common weed in dry land crops. Temperate and warm temperate regions originated in Eurasia are now widely distributed in temperate and subtropical regions all over the world.

Its stems and leaves can be used as feed and medicine for treating carbuncle and facial tinea. After boiling the whole grass in water for 20 minutes, the filtrate can spray and kill cabbage worms, and the spikelets can extract furfural.