Stable Food Supply

Millet is the Northern China's primary staple food while rice was for the south.

There were animal bones that were discovered giving the idea of the Chinese also eating meat though there are also some speculations that hunting was only for the noble's leisure.

This is a mortar that is used for taking the outer skin of the millet. It is still used in China today.

In order to keep up their crops, the ancient Chinese used wood and stone tools. In the fifth century BC, iron plows were developed. On the Northern grasslands, oxen pulled plows. But in the South, water bison pulled the plows but regardless of this, men did most of the agricultural work. They would cut wheat with sickles, carried crops by a pole hung across their shoulders with bags at the endto hold the grain, and they would loosen wheat by beating it with sticks. But the most complex tool was their irragation system. 

Some common foods of the Ancient Chinese include steamed buns, noodles or pancakes with vegtables soybean products, pickles, and some times meat, eggs, or fish on the side.