The Book of Ascension
The important agricultural books in the Western Han Dynasty are generally considered as the earliest existing agricultural books in the world. The main contents include the basic principles of farming, the selection of sowing date, seed treatment, cultivation, harvest, seed retention and storage technology of single crop, and seed planting methods.
Qi Min yaoshu
Written at the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is a comprehensive agricultural work written by Jia Sixie, an outstanding agronomist in China. It is one of the earliest monographs in the history of agriculture in the world and the earliest complete agricultural work in China. The secretary talked about the agricultural production in the lower reaches of the Yellow River basin, that is, southeast Shanxi, south-central Hebei, northeast Henan and north-central Shandong, covering the production technology knowledge of the Deputy Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fishery.
Overview of farming mulberry
An agricultural science book written by the Ministry of Agriculture in Yuan Dynasty. Meng Qi, Chang, Miao and others participated in the compilation, revision and supplement, and the book was written in the 10th year of Zhiyuan (1273). The relevant contents of agricultural books from ancient times to the early Yuan Dynasty were selected, and the experience of farming technology before13rd century was systematically summarized and studied.
Wang Zhennong's book
Wang Zhen, an agronomist and agricultural mechanic in Yuan Dynasty. Agricultural technology in northern China and technology in south china agriculture, China were also discussed. On the basis of predecessors' works, it comprehensively and systematically expounded the so-called generalized agricultural production knowledge for the first time, and put forward the traditional system of agriculture in China. Although the Yuan Dynasty ruled China for 97 years, it didn't last long, but it left three outstanding agricultural works in the agricultural history of China: One was the Summary of Agriculture and Mulberry compiled by the Ministry of Agriculture in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the other was Wang Zhen's Agricultural Book and Summary of Agriculture and Mulberry's Food and Clothing. Among these three books, Wang Zhennong's Book has the greatest influence.
Encyclopedia of agricultural management
This book was written by Xu Guangqi during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. According to the content, The Complete Book of Agricultural Policy can be roughly divided into two parts: agricultural policy measures and agricultural technology. There is a basic idea running through it, that is, Xu Guangqi's thought of "agricultural policy" for governing the country and keeping the people safe, which is also the difference between the Complete Book of Agricultural Policy and other large-scale agricultural books.
Time-limited general examination
Official comprehensive agricultural books of China in Qing Dynasty. In the second year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (1737), E Ertai, Zhang and other presidents appointed more than 40 officials to collect and sort out the previous literature records on farming, which lasted for five years and was compiled in the seventh year of Qianlong (1742). The word "giving time" in the title comes from "calendar is like the sun, the moon and the stars, respecting people" in Yao Dian of Shangshu, which means that the court respects people. This book not only compiles agricultural books of past dynasties, but also quotes 427 kinds of agricultural records in classics, history, books and books, with 5 illustrations12, many of which are very precious.