After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

The next day, classes resumed as normal.

Having gotten used to the blissful days of not having to go to class for a week, she now feels a bit wistful about attending classes.

Tuesday arrived, and she still didn't have much energy.

I hurriedly ate lunch, took my laptop, and found a relatively secluded classroom. I washed my face to refresh myself.

She turned on her computer and skillfully navigated to the live streaming website. The website's homepage hadn't changed since she learned of the system's existence.

The system had previously suggested turning the live stream into a shortcut, but Zhu Qinggu refused, still feeling that the live stream should have a sense of ceremony.

Let it be. Even if the system stops updating the website, there will still be a lot of information on the website, or recordings of many AI-generated live streams, which will be very useful to her.

You can learn from it.

The ancients were accustomed to opening the sky curtain at this time, waiting early in the morning.

This episode will especially focus on food, a topic that concerns everyone in the world.

If people in ancient times had enough to eat, they wouldn't have had so many problems. The core of many exchanges of interests and power was basically about whether or not people were full.

So everyone is looking at the sky.

The system has detected that the live stream started at the peak of viewership and attention on the screen.

While there were many before, some people, after losing the initial novelty, felt that whether the canopy appeared or not didn't matter to their lives; it was just something to watch for fun.

It's different now.

How could a person not want to eat?

"Good afternoon, everyone. Have you had lunch yet?" Zhu Qinggu waved to them, using the most familiar and fitting opening line.

[I've eaten, now I'm just waiting for the live stream!]

[Haven't eaten yet, waiting for the streamer's live broadcast to serve as my meal, since we're talking about food.]

[While eating, I knew the streamer would start broadcasting at this time.]

Even though this was a comment from a human, it was enough to warm Zhu Qinggu's heart. She smiled again and said, "In China, don't we often greet each other with 'Have you eaten yet?' This actually expresses our most basic wish, which is—to be full!"

"Food occupies a major position in Chinese culture, running through our entire history of civilization and influencing all aspects of our lives."

"For example, jealousy is being envious, being cheated is suffering a loss, being broke is eating dirt, taking advantage of someone is being a hooligan, betrayal is being a traitor, and people often say that material enjoyment is eating, drinking, and having fun, and that learning from mistakes is called 'a fall into a pit, a gain in your wit'..."

"Having nothing to do, just eating your fill; watching the excitement, just eating melon seeds; threatening, you'll regret it; going to jail, you'll eat jail food; stuttering, you'll stammer; being poor, you'll starve; having a wealth of experience, you've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice..."

After Zhu Qinggu said that, the people under the sky realized that it was indeed the case.

It seems like everything can be related to food!

It's really interesting!

"So here's the question: what did the ancient Chinese eat that led to the creation of so many food-related words?" Zhu Qinggu looked at the live stream camera with amusement, patiently guiding the audience.

This has piqued everyone's curiosity.

Does this mean we'll have to start from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods again, just like before?

Previously, due to the discussion of oracle bone script in short videos, many scholars have become interested in these ancient artifacts and have begun organizing groups to protect and excavate them.

They are now very interested in what Zhu Qinggu said about the Stone Age, which existed even before the Shang Dynasty.

Eating is something that every living thing has to do, so the history of Chinese diet is even further back than the Stone Age.

"Today we'll mainly talk about the history of staple foods in China," Zhu Qinggu said firmly, his tone gentle.

The newly made paper was very good. Liu Che liked it as soon as he used it. Moreover, the paper gained widespread approval from many people, and Liu Che also made a small fortune.

Even with a close attendant recording things, he still wrote the words "staple food" on a piece of paper with a pen on the table, using the same simplified characters shown on the sky.

"Speaking of staple foods, in later generations, they were mostly rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, etc. The classic impression is rice in the south and wheat in the north, and wheat is what is called wheat."

"But talking only about rice and wheat is a bit lacking, and rice and wheat were not the staple foods that the Chinese people chose from the beginning."

“We also often see ancient texts with the words ‘five grains’ written on them. The five grains are grains, but grains are not just grains, but also beans and tubers.”

Zhu Qinggu clicked on the PPT, and the specific pictures and the words labeled on the pictures immediately appeared in the three categories.

"Grains include rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, etc.; legumes include soybeans, red beans, mung beans, peanuts, etc.; tubers are basically root vegetables, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, yams, etc."

People under the sky had seen this potato many times. They knew that potatoes were a high-yield food and that potatoes, along with corn, had been introduced from overseas.

If only they could get their hands on these high-yield crops.

"Do we often see phrases like 'lazy in physical labor and ignorant of the five grains' or 'abundant harvest of the five grains' in classical Chinese texts? So what exactly are the 'five grains'?"

"Many people know that the five grains are rice, millet, sorghum, wheat, and beans. There is also a saying that rice is replaced with hemp, but hemp is more used for textiles, so hemp was later excluded from the five grains."

"Rice is paddy rice, millet is sorghum, also called sorghum, foxtail millet is millet, wheat is wheat, and beans are a general term for legumes."

"But grains are not just these; there are also sorghum, glutinous rice, wild rice, and later introduced corn, etc."

[So many! I feel like I've completely forgotten how to distinguish between different grains, haha.]

[Actually, the abundance of food we have is a recent phenomenon, only about twenty years old. Before that, we couldn't even get enough to eat.]

[In ancient times, people ate two meals a day, which later became three meals a day. When I was little, I ate two meals a day, but now it's three meals a day.]

[We also need to thank the government's food basket program; otherwise, we wouldn't have so many vegetables to eat.]

"The Vegetable Basket Plan? What is that? Why do countries in later generations even have to control what their people eat?" Zhu Yuanzhang pondered.

Zhu Biao was used to it. Just as Miss Zhu said, the country in later generations wanted every citizen to live a good life!