The Korean ethnic group in Yanbian has a long history of eating five-grain rice. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, farmers piled up rice, yellow rice, millet, sorghum rice, and adzuki beans in a stuffy pot to make five-grain rice.

Rural residents also put some into the cattle trough to see which kind of grain would be eaten by cattle first to predict which one will be harvested this year.