Bees collect flowers to brew honey. What were the names of ancient bees?

It was called "bee" in ancient times. In the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1 1 century ~ 77 1 century BC), there was a poem "Don't give up the bee" in The Book of Songs Zhou Song Xiao Ya, which is the earliest document record about the word "bee".

The word "honey" first appeared in the Book of Rites. Internal rules "(before the 3rd century).

During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC), the earliest existing documents about beekeeping appeared-The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of Zhongshan and Six Classics of Zhongci (about the 3rd century BC).

Among them, the word "honey" began to be combined into disyllabic words, which have been used ever since.

This paper describes the primitive beehive shape that looks like a human, but has two songs, and the custom of praying for bees with a rooster instead of killing it.

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