the Kuang ya explains it by Je HE ta mai (the great m 
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with pork. 1, 289 :—The officers stimulate the wheat-sowing, — 
in the second month of autumn. I, 460 :—A condiment of — 
wheat with soups of dried slices and of fowl (diet of the 
ancient Chinese). 1, 461 :—Wheat suits goose. i 
Chou li, I, 270:—§ wheat produced in the Province of © 
JH Tsing chou (Southern Shantung). I, 94 i 
suits goose. 
Shi king, 79:—l am going to gather the wheat, #, in the 
north of Mei (which was north of the Yellow River). 
89:—I would have gone through the country amidst the 
wheat so luxuriant. Also 122-172 :—Large rats do not eat our 
wheat. 232 [Life in Pin’ *|:—Gathering of wheat and other 
grains in the 10th month. 469, 620:—Hov rst [v. infra, 
343] sows wheat. 620:—O accomplished Hou rst, thou didst 
give grain food to our multitudes, thou didst confer on us the 
Wheat 3€ and the barley #2 which God appointed for the 
nourishment of all! 582 :—How beautiful are the wheat 3 
and the barley #, whose bright produce we shall receive! _ 
Chun ts“u, 118:—There was [B.C. 664] a great want of 
wheat HE and rice I. 
Comp. regarding wheat P., XXII, 17, sJs HE siao mai, and 
the drawing under the same name, Ch., I, 13. See also 
Phon 20, XL, 8. Amen ewot., 834, 2 baku, vulgo mugg 
frumentum i In genere, et in specie Hordeum. 
— 840.— Barley, although it has never been cultivated to 
great extent in Stiely for the Chinese esteem it much | 
_ than wheat, was nevertheless known to them in the early days 
of Chinese husbandry, The classical name of this cereal } 
#F mou, sometimes, as in the Shi king, written 7B, W without 
the radical, The character mou is not found in the Rh yas 
: = , latter i 18 still the popular Chinese name for bark 
