明朝人魏学的《核舟记》中,有这样两句话:“舟首尾长约八分有奇,高可二黍许。”对其中的“黍”字,不少书刊都解释为“黄米”或“黄米子”、而且似乎这种解释还成了一种比较通行的说法。比如:初中语文课本第四册把“高可二黍许”解释为“大约有两个黄米粒那么高”。《辞源》在释“黍”字时也说:“禾属而黏者也……今北人通呼为黄米子”。我认为“黍”和“黄米”固然有联系,但是两者是不同的,不应该把它们混为一谈。 (一)从历史上来看。黍在我国是一种很古老的粮食作物,被列力“五谷”之一。这说明,从先秦直到明,清,“黍”的概念是清楚的,那 In Ming Dynasty’s Wei Xue’s book “The Legend of the Navy”, there are two sentences: “The head of the boat is about eight points long and odd, and the high can be two.” For the word “黍”, many books and magazines are interpreted as “Yellow rice” or “yellow rice seed,” and it seems that this explanation has become a relatively popular statement. For example, the fourth volume of junior high school Chinese textbooks interprets “high and low ambiguity” as “about two yellow rice grains are as high”. “Ciyuan” also said in the interpretation of the word “黍”: “The person who is a member of the family and sticky person ... ... is also the person who is the northerner.” I think that “黍” and “Yellow Rice” are certainly related, but the two are different and they should not be confused. (a) Historically. Ape is a very old food crop in our country and it is one of the “grains” of Lie. This shows that from the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the concept of “黍” was clear.