Seven things to open, "Food, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea". Rice is the staple food of Taiwanese people, but the same bowl of rice is nourishing with all kinds of temperaments. Therefore, Taiwanese people say "the same rice is a hundred kinds of people", but when mocking someone for not knowing the suffering of people, they will say "whether they eat rice is not the price", which is more important than Emperor Hui's words "Why not eat meat minced meat".

Rice can be divided into dry rice (mill rice) and rice according to the water required for growth. Dry rice can grow in water-deficient land or mountainous land, usually harvest once a year; due to different climates, rice harvests vary. Taiwan has a warm climate, abundant sunshine and rainfall, making it a unique rice farming place. It is mostly cultivated for two periods. The top three harvests are Changhua, Yunlin and Jiayi County. Yilan, Hualien and Taitung in the east have nurtured many high-quality rice with their pure and pure soil. Huang Qing, the "Sunyuan Old Man" who was born in the New Taipei Forest in the late Qing Dynasty, once sang in "14 Orders of the Fields" that Taiwan is a island with "the climate is gentle and thick, and it is ripe in early winter and harvests in late winter."

If the powder viscosity is different, rice can be divided into three categories: minced rice, japonica rice and glutinous rice. The rice is low in viscosity, long and dry, and is used for processing purposes; the japonica rice has a soft and hard taste and is the most commonly served on the dining table; the glutinous rice has the highest viscosity and is used for wine, soup making, rice dumplings, etc., which carries countless festivals and family memory.

Archaeological research shows that carbonized rice has been unearthed at sites such as the Thirteenth Street in New Taipei City, Huilai and Tainan Nanke. A large number of stone-made farms have been found at the Zhishan Yan site in Taipei. It is confirmed that prehistoric indigenous peoples who had already learned to plant dry rice as early as the mid-Neolithic period (about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago). By the 17th century, when the Spanish and Dutch arrived in Taiwan, they also left behind records of buying rice from the indigenous people.

In the Netherlands and Ming dynasties, the Imperial Immigrants along the coast of China began to cross the black water and came to this new world, bringing rice and farming technology mainly based on rice rice. The Dutch even brought oxen from Penghu, changing the appearance of Taiwan's agricultural industry. However, in order to pioneer the emigrants from the Qing Dynasty, they had conflicts with the indigenous people. The poem "Everyone is slashing with his sword and his waist" by the late Qing Dynasty literati Lin Shumei, who wrote a vivid and elegant atmosphere of Han people planting rice seedlings under the shadow of restlessness. Rice fields are both food and the front line of conflict.

As Taiwan became the "country of fish rice", the rice even returned to the coast of Mainland. The Qing Dynasty's censor, Qiu Qi, wrote in the "Taiwan Bamboo Branch Lexicon": "Early rice harvested and late rice ripened, and it was secretly transported to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou." Although the Qing government controlled exports, smuggling continued. Rice is both a genital and a benefit.

After the Japanese colonized Taiwan, they implemented the policy of "industrial Japan, agricultural Taiwan". However, Japanese people who were engaging in eating japonica rice could not eat japonica rice with a hard taste, so they asked a breeding expert, Yongji, to cultivate a new japonica rice product suitable for Taiwanese farming, "Taichung No. 65", named "Ponrice Rice". They returned to Japan. Taiwan's original japonica rice was called "coming" with the meaning of "always been" in the Japanese word Han.

After the Second War, with a large number of people from other provinces working in Taiwan, demand for food surged, and the government promoted the increase of production and product improvement, and then foreign exchange for foreign exchange to support industry. However, after the 1970s, Taiwan, which entered the industrialized society, experienced a dilemma of rice surplus, and the government promoted rice field transformation and fallow. After joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2002, rice from abroad entered the market. With the diversified diet, the amount of rice eaten by Chinese people dropped from 100 kilograms to more than 40 kilograms every year, and the rice fragrance became lighter in daily life.

In order to make the Hui people's love for rice, the agricultural units strive to develop excellent products. For example, the cold and cold dishes of Simi "Taipei No. 9" are not hard; "Tainan No. 16" has the Q-sticky texture of Japanese Yokogami rice; "Kaohsiung No. 139" has the fragrance of Ikebana bread; "Tainan No. 11" is the main force in stable production, and is even "sayed as Tianji" by Japanese trading companies. In addition, Yiquan fragrant rice with taro fragrance and jasmine fragrant rice that exudes the breath of seven leaves all give Taiwanese rice more unique flavor.

"Food people are the foundation of all kinds of flavors…… It is ridiculous to see rich people, but they don’t talk about food and forget the roots after talking about food. "The Garden Food List" Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty affirmed the core position of rice in the way of eating, and even advocated "Those who know the taste will not use dishes when they meet good food." I once chewed dozens of white foods in detail, and it turned into sweetness and fragrant. However, what we love most is still the simple bowl of bitter tea oil and soy sauce. If you add a half-cooked poached egg, you won’t change the food.

Whites are simply paired with dried meat, ginger, or hot chicken, melon meat, etc., and poured with gravy and sauce, which is a national snack that is unique and suitable for large mouthfuls to snatch into your mouth. If you add eggs, meat, crusts, crab meat, ham, and even famous fish, dried beans, it will be fried in various colors of people, which is difficult for the writer Shu Guo to stir-fry. Zhuo praised: "Rice is a gentleman. It is harmonious with all things, but it is harmonious and different."

Several years ago, I went to the Taitung County Electric Optical Tribe and went to the Beinan River to the shore of Beinan Stream with Qingyuan. I saw him rake and rake and turn the rake under the sun. Although the mountain winds in Huadong Valley were blowing, it would not dissipate the sweat beads that flowed from the sweat. Inscription, "Wo sweat drips into the soil, every grain of water is hard to do" is no longer just a poem in the book, but the truth in front of me. In my heart, I also hope that those who work hard to cultivate the blessing fields can all be harvested. So is life.