Describe briefly the food habits of Chinese people
There is an archaeological evidence of rice farming along the Yang-tse River as early as about 5000 B.C. People in northern China gathered wild millet and sorghum instead. They ate it boiled into a kind of porridge. Another food people associate with China is tea. People in northern China first began to eat wheat during the Shang Dynasty, about 1500 B.C.. Wheat was not native to China, people brought it from West Asia. So, rice, millet, sorghum, and wheat were the main foods of China. In southern China, people mostly ate rice. Some people bought or grew vegetables to put on their rice. Soyabeans and cucumbers are native to China. The Chinese had oranges and lemons, peaches and apricots. Also beginning in the Han Dynasty, about 100 AD, Chinese people began to make their wheat and rice into long noodles.
