"-Shen Zhou (1427-1509), Comments on Eating Zhou Legend has it that zhou-also known as rice porridge or rice congee-is one of the great discoveries of the imperial household. One of the more plausible legends says that some time during the Western Zhou dynasty (11th century BCE-771 BCE) somebody mistakenly-or rather, by a stroke of luck-added too much water while making rice, resulting in rice porridge.
∼明朝沈周《食粥語》相傳，粥是黃帝的一大發明，較可信的說法是西周時候的一個美麗的錯誤，因為煮飯時多放了水而成為稀飯。