"Grain avoidance...was the common medical cure for expelling the 'Three Corpses', the malevolent, grain-eating spirits that live in the human body, report their host's sins to heaven every 60 days, and carry out punishments of sickness and early death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigu_(grain_avoidance) …
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recommend James Scott's "Against the Grain" on this. Naturally, he talks about how specifically legibility of grains for taxation (not just agriculture in general) led to the formation of extractive states
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