From "Earth Mother Sutra".
"In the year of Tai Sui and Geng Zi, many people died violently. In spring and summer, there were floods, and in autumn and winter there was frequent hunger and thirst." "In the first year of rat consumption, there are many biases. Look at the three winters, and there are graveyards on the top of the mountains."
These few sentences describe the agricultural production conditions in the Gengzi Year, and none of them are beautiful. Floods, hunger, no harvests, rat plagues, and "graveyards rising from the hills" refer to the fact that many people will die of illness and starvation during this year. This phenomenon might have occurred in ancient times when natural disasters occurred frequently or wars broke out, but it is absolutely impossible to appear in modern society.
The "Earth Mother Sutra" is a prophetic book about crop production. Most of the content in this book is related to crop production. Many people regard the verses and divination in it as divination. It is a prediction of future agricultural production.
The "Earth Mother Sutra" is the content recorded in the Huangli Tongshu in ancient times. The "Earth Mother Sutra" is often placed together with the Spring Ox Picture. The so-called "Earth Mother Sutra" is based on one poem and one divination. way, arranged in a sixty-year cycle. The entire text is related to agricultural production. However, the words in the "Earth Mother Sutra" only look like poetry in form, but in fact, they do not look like they were written by someone who can write poetry at all, but rather like someone who is not versed in writing. man's masterpiece.
The content in the Sixty Years of the "Earth Mother Sutra" is recycled and cyclical, so it seems to predict the development of agriculture, but in fact it has no reference value.
The "Earth Mother Sutra" is usually attached to the "Spring Cow Picture" page. Looking at the text of the Earth Mother Sutra, we can see that it is out of rhythm and incoherent with rhyme, which must have been created by someone who was not familiar with writing. For sixty years, the poem and the divination in the "Earth Mother Sutra" have been repeated over and over again, which has no practical value at all. Many of the articles in the general book can only be used as a reference. If they are used to predict the fate of the world, or to make predictions for sowing at the right time, they are not practical enough.
Another theory is that China's agricultural conditions and natural disasters do have a certain periodicity, which has its own unique significance in preventing plagues and disasters. The language of the "Earth Mother Sutra" is plain and not fancy. It is probably based on the oral transmission of the laws of nature by the hardworking Chinese people in ancient times. It can also be seen as an exploration of the laws of nature by the ancient Chinese.
Agriculture
refers to an important industrial sector in the national economy, a sector that uses land resources as its production object. It is an industry that produces food and industrial raw materials by cultivating animal and plant products. . Agriculture is the primary industry. The department that uses land resources for planting and production is the plantation industry. The department that uses the water space on the land for aquaculture is aquaculture, also called fishery. The department that uses land resources to cultivate and harvest trees is forestry. The department that uses land resources to cultivate or directly use grassland development Animal husbandry is animal husbandry. Small-scale processing or preparation of these products is a side industry and is an integral part of agriculture. The development and display of these landscapes or local resources is sightseeing agriculture, also known as leisure agriculture. This is a new form of agriculture that has emerged in the new era as people have more spare time.
Agriculture in the broad sense refers to five industrial forms including planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and sideline industries; agriculture in the narrow sense refers to planting. Including production activities of crops such as food crops, cash crops, feed crops and green manure.
The agricultural distribution range is very vast. Except for the poles and deserts, almost all of the earth's surface can be used for agricultural production. Of the actual land area of ??nearly 131 million square kilometers, about 11% is arable land and perennial cropland, 24% is grassland and pasture, and 31% is forest and woodland. Oceans and inland waters are sites for aquaculture production. The distribution of agricultural natural resources is very uneven. Arable land is mainly concentrated in Asia, Europe and North America. The economically developed countries in North America, Europe and Oceania are 0.56 hectares, while the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are only 0.22 hectares, of which Asia is only 0.16 hectares (1984). The forest distribution area is larger in Europe and Latin America; the grassland area ranks first in Africa, followed by Asia; there are also great differences between different countries and regions. The basic trends and characteristics of agricultural development in the contemporary world are a high degree of commercialization, capitalization, scale, specialization, regionalization, factoryization, knowledge, socialization, and internationalization intertwined, which has greatly increased the land output rate. , agricultural labor productivity, agricultural product commodity rate and international market competitiveness.