The history of Chinese food dates back to about 5000 BC. Over this vast period of time, Chinese people have developed their own unique way of preparing food. Their ways of identifying ingredients to make perfect combinations, their multi-phased cooking techniques, and their administering of multi-phased flavoring have all been developed gradually. The ancient Chinese had a very healthy diet, and from historical evidence, we can see that farming in China seems to have started approximately 5,000 years ago.

Chinese cuisine is marked by both variety and change. Since ancient times, food has been at the center of social interaction, and many present-day dishes with their varieties of aroma and taste can be traced back to ancient Chinese food traditions. The Chinese have always considered food an art, placing the emphasis on the preparation of food as well as how it is served.

This article has put together 10 of the most popular traditional foods of ancient China. Let’s explore these foods one by one:

10. Vegetables (Soybeans and Cucumber)



As broadly consumed till today and as other ancient civilization had it, vegetable is an important diet for the Chinese antiquity. The unique of Chinese diet which survives until today, however, was not generally refer to all the veggies but specifically refers to Soybean and Cucumber. The two items mentioned above were the main vegetable dish in ancient Chinese foods; it was previously a pricey item for foods.

In the ancient Chinese, these two staples are consumed as early as 1000 BC when people started to make their own crop. The history of soybeans as Chinese diet was recorded in the discovery of bronze vessels which is presumed to be archeological evidence from the early age of the Zhou period. On those vessels, the Chinese character for soybean, “Shu”, is carved there. Soybeans grains are a commodity enjoyed by the majority of the population, yet the poorer ones usually need extra work to add vegetables to their rice. This development of soybean was predicted to appear around 500 BC, the time of the Confucius. The same way work for cucumber, it’s also a pricey food in China. However, these vegetables were favored for its nutrition that’s good for the body.

Soybean and Cucumber are still widely consumed by Chinese people until today since vegetable is good for health. It is believed to give nutrition to skin and to make the body feel younger.

9. Wine (Rice and Millet)



China is regarded as one of the first countries in the world to have made wine. Since its introduction, wine was not just a drink but was also endowed with a spiritual and cultural significance, reflecting social and political life and aesthetic ideas, and cropping up in contemporary literature as well. During the Shang dynasty (16th to 11th century BC), people began to drink wine and used it to worship the gods; yellow rice wine is considered the first of this kind. All other varieties of wine are supposed to have been developed after the Han (206 BC–220 BC) and Tang (618 BC –907 BC) dynasties. Years later, millet wine was introduced and it was a big hit, even more popular than tea.

8. Sorghum



Even though sorghum might sound alien to many ears, but this commodity is one of the favored foods consumed by the ancient Chinese. Today, sorghum is still commonly produced in China and used to make various kinds of dish.

Known as Milo, this staple was highly favored because of its simple nature. Compared to other grains cultivated in ancient Chinese, sorghum relatively was easier to plant and better for the pocket. To grow sorghum, the farmer needed only a small bucket of water since this grain is strong enough to strive on the land that couldn’t be cultivated with other grains. Sorghum seed also cost them less and it didn’t particularly need to be fertilized regularly. Thus, this food was very famous in ancient time, especially for the lower class. The archeological evidence of sorghum consumption is found in Shijiazhuang. It’s predicted that the consumption of sorghum as one of the ancient Chinese foods began in the late Neolithic period.

7. Meat (Pork, Beef, and Chicken)



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