Millet has been an important food in northern China since it replaced millet in the late Neolithic period. The poem "Let's talk about it, I have no millet food" in the Book of Songs, which reflects the fact that millet was the staple food at that time. Xiaomi is also one of the sources of ancient government tax revenue and an important symbol of social prosperity. For thousands of years, China established its country by agriculture, and its worship and sacrifice to the millet god extended. The worship of millet has experienced the evolution of "Su Guan-Hou Ji-Su Shen". In ancient times, the worship of millet god and country god was often mentioned side by side, and "country" became the symbol of the country.
Mentally speaking, Xiaomi has cultivated the excellent qualities of hard-working and perseverance of Chinese descendants with its biological characteristics such as drought resistance, barren resistance and storage resistance. Xiaomi culture is deeply imprinted in China people's spiritual world, which deeply affects people's thinking and humanistic feelings. In ancient times, Boyi and Shu Qi "refused to eat Zhou Su" and starved to death in shouyangshan. Li Shen's poem "Two Ancient Styles" in the Tang Dynasty said: "A millet is planted in spring, and there are ten thousand kinds in Qiu Cheng. There are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death "; "After cutting the grain at noon, sweat dripped into the soil. Who knows that every grain is hard? Today, there is still this feeling of caring for people's livelihood and cherishing food.
From a global perspective, the symbol of millet in ancient culture is unique. For example, North Korea calls it "millet", Russia calls it "rice grain" and India calls it "stick valley". For another example, Su is called Cinaka in Sanskrit, which means "China", or Cheen in Hindi, Cheena in Bengali and Chino in Gujarat. These are all phonetic differences. These language traces prove some connections between China local culture and Xiaomi spread overseas, and also show that the symbol of Xiaomi in traditional culture has world significance.
In short, the connotation of millet culture is rich and extensive, from farming methods to cultivation techniques, from ancestral temple sacrifices to folk customs, from poetry to various meanings. It is an important gene bearing the long-term development of Chinese civilization, with extraordinary vitality and world significance.