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Old Aug 29, 2006, 04:09 PM
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Five sacred nourishments - Hazelnuts and ?

I read on a website about Oregon hazelnuts that :

"A manuscript found in China that dates to 2,838 B.C. mentions hazelnuts as one of the “five sacred nourishments” bestowed by God on humans.

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What were the other four Chinese 'sacred nourishments'?

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Old Aug 30, 2006, 02:04 AM   #2  
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Ha, very interesting. I get 120 hits searching “five sacred nourishments” yet only the hazlenut is named.

I did further searching looking for more about this manuscript but the only references I could find were the same sources as above citing this supposed manuscript.

...this leaves me skeptical that such a manuscript even exists. Smells like urban legend to me.

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I would easily guess honey to be on that list, as it is an ancient food with great historical references. Other ancient foods from that area might be rice, tea and wine which clearly has close ties to sacredness. This is all conjecture, of course!

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jonmark222 agrees: I think you may well be right, but what I want to know is what the text said. Thanks. J.
magprob agrees: Crickets are another one.
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I agree with you Rick....sounds like an urban legend to me. I wonder how much else is inaccurate on the Internet?
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oops...we just changed the link to the feature to "Rate this Answer". Sorry about that.
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Morganite might know, he comes up with some pretty obscure stuff when it comes to religious texts.
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