One of the most complete and oldest agricultural books in China

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The earliest and most complete agricultural book in China is "Qi Min Yaoshu". Qi Min Yao Shu is a comprehensive agricultural work written by Jia Sixian, an outstanding Chinese agronomist during the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Song to Liang dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, and is also one of the earliest monographs in the history of agriculture in the world, and is the earliest complete agricultural book in China. The book systematically preserves the essence of ancient agricultural techniques.

Qi Min Yao Shu was written about the sixth century AD, with a total of ten volumes, 92 articles, and nearly 110,000 words.

When Jia Siqian wrote, he "collected scriptures, fought and ballads, inquired about the old and done." It is precisely because of the breadth of the book and the practice of the book that the content is rich and colorful, in Jia Sixian's own words, "starting from a farmer, and finally making a living, and the book is incomplete." Volumes 1 to 6 describe the cultivation of grains, oilseeds, fibers, fuels, vegetables and fruits, mulberry and other species, as well as the cultivation of livestock and fish.

Clause. Volumes 7, 8, and 9 are mostly about food, and respectively record the processing and cooking of food, including brewing, pickling, fruit processing, cooking, cake bait, drinking pulp, sugar production, etc. The food was so rich and detailed that it was unprecedented in the food writings of the time.

It can be said that "Qi Min Yaoshu" is not only an important agricultural book, but also an important work on dietetics.

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A striking feature of volumes 7, 8 and 9 is the preservation of a large number of precious historical materials on food and drink, and another feature is that the food content involved is diverse, and the dishes included are rich and colorful.

On the one hand, Qi Min Yaoshu cites a large number of food classics before the sixth century, and retains a lot of precious food documents; On the other hand, it summarizes the dietary practice in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which lays the foundation for the further development of food cooking in later generations. It can be said that Qi Min Yaoshu is actually the foundation and writing mode of ancient Chinese dietetics before the sixth century, and it is worthy of an epoch-making work in the history of Chinese dietetics.

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The earliest surviving complete agricultural book in China is the "Qi Min Yaoshu" written by Jia Siqian of the Northern Dynasty.

The book summarizes the production technologies of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline products, and fishery, and is very rich in content. Jia Siqian sorted out the agricultural knowledge recorded in ancient books, collected folk songs and proverbs, and learned from the production experience of farmers.

He also proved and enriched these experiences in production practice, emphasizing that agricultural production should follow the laws of nature, and that crops must be planted according to local conditions.

Qi Min Yao Shu praised Geng Shouchang's Chang Ping and Sang Hongyang's average loss method as "the art of benefiting the country and the people, immortality", and ridiculed Confucius for "not being diligent in the four bodies, and not dividing the five grains".

Jia Siyun has established a relatively complete agricultural science system, and has made a reasonable classification of agricultural categories characterized by practicality. A series of processes such as land reclamation, cultivation, post-production processing, brewing, and utilization are described in detail, and also discuss planting, forestry, and various aquacultures.

The earliest surviving agricultural book in China is the Book of Victory.

Introduction to "The Book of Victory".

The Book of Victory" is also known as the eighteen chapters of "The Book of Victory", which is a book published by the Academy Audiovisual Publishing House, and the author is Chuan Shengzhi. The contents of the extant Book of Victory mainly include the following three parts:

The first part is the general theory of cultivation and cultivation. "The Book of Victory" first put forward the general principle of cultivating reeds: "The foundation of all cultivation lies in the fun time, and the soil, the manure, and the early hoeing and early harvest"; "The sum of time, suitable for the disadvantage of the land, although the field is thin and evil, the harvest can be ten stones per mu.

Then, the principles of soil tillage and the methods of seed treatment are discussed.

In the former, the timing and methods of soil tillage and soil tillage were emphatically expounded, and the importance of correctly grasping the appropriate soil tillage timing was repeatedly explained from both positive and negative aspects. The latter includes the selection, preservation and handling of crop seeds; A special seed treatment method, the seed method, was introduced. In addition, it is also involved in the selection of sowing dates, etc.

The second part is the sub-theory of crop cultivation. The cultivation methods of 13 crops, including grass, millet, wheat, rice, barnyard weed, soybean, adzuki bean, fir fir, hemp, melon, gourd, taro and mulberry, were introduced, and the content involved the production links such as tillage, sowing, cultivating, fertilization, irrigation, plant protection, and harvesting.

The third part is the high-yield cultivation method of special crops. This is a very prominent part of the "Book of Victory", among the more than 3,000 words in the Book of Victory, there are more than 1,000 words about the law of zoning; Moreover, it was often cited in later agricultural books and similar books.

About the Author:

The author of "The Book of Victory", there is no biography of him in the official history, and there are few records of his deeds in ancient books. He was born in the late Western Han Dynasty, and the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles" notes that he served as a speaker when he was Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty. His ancestral home is in the area of Panshui, Shandong.

Guangyun "Cloud Volume Erfan 29th year, the surname "out of Dunhuang, Jibei Erwang."

Huangfu Miyun: 'My surname is Fan, but I was in turmoil by Qin, and I avoided the land in the water, because of the change. Han has a lot of victory, wrote a book about planting, the sub-series is Dunhuang Taishou, and the descendants are because of the family. It is a tributary of Jishui, which is forty miles north of Cao County, Shandong, and borders Dingtao County.

Although he was a native of Shandong, his main activity in history was to guide agricultural production in the Jingshi area of the Western Han Dynasty. "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles" notes: "Liu Xiang's "Beilu" cloud, so that the teaching of Tian Sanfu, there are good fields to teach teachers. Migration is the royal history. ”

The Book of Jin and the Food and Goods Chronicle said: "The former light car messenger was the governor of the victory and the three auxiliary wheat planting, and Guanzhong was prosperous. "The experience and information he accumulated in these activities were the basis for writing the agricultural book; And he is mainly famous for his "Book of Victory".

The earliest surviving agricultural book in China is "Qi Min Yaoshu".

Qi Min Yao Shu is a comprehensive agricultural work written by Jia Sicha, an outstanding Chinese agronomist during the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Song to Liang dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, and is also one of the earliest monographs in the history of agriculture in the world, and is the earliest complete agricultural book in China. The book systematically preserves the essence of ancient agricultural techniques.

The book consists of 10 volumes and 92 articles, systematically summarizing the production of agricultural and animal husbandry of the working people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River before the sixth century, the processing and storage of food, the utilization of wild plants, and the methods of controlling famine, and introduces in detail the seasons, climate, and the relationship between different soils and different crops, and is known as the "encyclopedia of ancient Chinese agriculture".

The influence of "Qi Min Wants to Crack Friends" on later generations

Since its publication, the book has long been valued by the Chinese dynasties, and has become a classic for the study of ancient species changes after being spread overseas. "Qi Min Yaoshu" can be interpreted as a method for ordinary people to make a living, and it can also be interpreted as a method for governing people's livelihood. The official periodicals of the Northern Song Dynasty are not easy to see, and there is a saying that "people who are not in the court cannot get them".

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, there have been many agricultural books, all of which take it as a model, among them, the Yuan Dynasty's "Nongsang Zesan Compendium", Wang Zhen's "Agricultural Book", the Ming Dynasty's Xu Guangqi's "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", and the Qing Dynasty's "Time Examination" are all influenced by it.

Qi Min Yao Shu systematically summarizes the knowledge of agricultural science and technology in the Yellow River Basin of China since the Qin and Han dynasties, preserves the essence of agricultural technology in the Han Dynasty, and focuses on summarizing the new experience and achievements of dryland agriculture in the north after the Book of Biansheng, such as the dryland farming technology system centered on tillage, harrowing and harrowing, and the technologies of crop rotation and stubble, planting green manure, and breeding of improved seeds. In the following 1,000 years, the development of dryland agriculture technology in northern China basically did not go beyond the direction and scope summarized by it.

The first complete agricultural book in China is "Qi Min Yaoshu". Qi Min Yaoshu is a comprehensive agricultural book, the first of the five major agricultural books in ancient China, which describes the agricultural production in the lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin, that is, the southeastern part of present-day Shanxi, the south-central part of Hebei, the northeastern part of Henan, and the north-central part of Shandong, and covers the production technology knowledge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and sideline departments.

Qi Min Yao Shu was written in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty (533-544 AD), which is a comprehensive agricultural work written by Jia Sixian, an outstanding Chinese agronomist during the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Song to Liang dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, and is also one of the earliest monographs in the history of agriculture in the world, and the earliest complete agricultural book in China.

The book consists of 10 volumes and 92 articles, systematically summarizing the agricultural and animal husbandry production experience, food processing and storage, utilization of wild plants, and methods of controlling famine among the working people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River before the sixth century, and introduces in detail the seasons, climate, and the relationship between different soils and different crops, and is known as the "Encyclopedia of Ancient Chinese Agriculture".

Other agricultural books in our country:

1. "Agricultural Mulberry Compendium".

The Compendium of Nongsang was written in the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1273), which was an official agricultural book compiled by the Yuan Dynasty. The book consists of 7 volumes and more than 60,000 words, mainly introducing the agricultural technology of the north. Although much of the content in the "Compendium of Nongsang" is quoted from ancient agricultural books such as "Qi Min Yaoshu", there are also new contents, and they are more practical.

2. "Wang Zhennongshu".

Wang Zhen's Book of Agriculture was written in the second year of Emperor Yuanrenzong's reign (1313), and the author was Wang Zhen (year of birth and death unknown). The book has a total of 130,000 words, which changes the limitations of the previous agricultural books that describe agriculture in the north, and discusses the agricultural technology and its similarities and differences between the north and the south, and at the same time widely introduces various agricultural tools in the first way.

3. The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration

The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration was born in the late Ming Dynasty and was written in the thirties of the 17th century by Xu Guangqi (1562-1633). The book has a total of 60 volumes, more than 70 thousand words, the main content is extracted from the previous generation of agricultural books and various literature, but the author carefully cuts and comments at the same time to form a relatively complete agricultural system.

4. "Time Examination".

Written in the seventh year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1742), it is a comprehensive agricultural book officially revised in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The book has a total of 78 volumes and more than 980,000 words, with field production as the main content, as well as various industries of forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishery. In addition to compiling the agricultural books of the past dynasties, the "General Examination of Conferral of Time" also widely quoted many words and illustrations about agricultural affairs in the "Siku Quanshu", and the literature value is very high.

China's earliest agricultural book is the "Zhunong Essentials", its author is the Tang Dynasty's Yuan Yiwen (720-796), also known as the original jujube Jingzan, is a famous historian, folkist and agriculturist in the Tang Dynasty.

The book was compiled in the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty (787), with a total of 10 volumes, which included the basic knowledge, techniques, methods and experiences in agricultural production and production, including grain, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.

It is the earliest monograph in China that systematically introduces the knowledge and experience of China's agricultural science and technology, and lays the foundation for later generations of agricultural books. The book is rich in content, easy to learn and easy to understand, and was widely disseminated in the Tang Dynasty, and has high historical and cultural value.