| Something On The Longer Life Of A Rice Plant |
| Rice has been around for...a little more than a few years, I think...the Chinese (tan people who live on the Eastern part of E-A-R-T-H [like me]) love rice (well they'd to, or else they would've all starved and died off), and in some forms of dialect used in China, rice literally meant the same thing as food (mostly isolated rural languages, in which the users never defined the difference between the two...which there really wasn't). So that about means that rice has been around as long as the Chinese...and I dunno, but the Chinese seem to live pretty long...and they started farming rice 6000 years ago, so...I'm not sure what I would do if I had farmed rice for 6000 years O_o. Although the Thai were probably the first to harvest the rice, I won't mention them here and will rather pretend that the Chinese were the first. Although the Chinese were probably the first to harvest rice, they certainly weren't the last. The practice spread relatively fast, with people in India farming rice in 2500 BC, West Asia and Greece in 300 BC, and even East Africa was benefitting from rice by 800 AD. It is widely accepted that the Chinese first invented the extremely efficient method of creating rice paddies, which resembled shallow ponds, with the minor abnormalty of rice growing out of it. And...uh...so I guess you should stop whatever you're doing and go farm rice because everyone else is doing it. |