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Food in Ancient China

In Ancient China, it was very difficult to grow and get food. Meat was very expensive, and the crops they made required laborious and long hours. And even today in modern China, it is still difficult to get food. With its population hovering around a bulging billion people, it is not easy getting food for all of these people, but when they do get it, they often make filling and some tasty dishes.
When you want to order Chinese food, you probably think of getting some sweet and sour chicken, or Mongolian beef. But probably, the first thing you think about is rice, which was the first grain ever farmed in China. There is evidence that they even began farming rice as early as 5500 BCE. People cooked rice by boiling it in water, the way they do today. Or they made it into wine, which was rather unoriginally called rice wine. Rice wine has been a popular beverage since prehistory. But rice doesn’t grow in northern China, only Southern China. That’s why......

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