As the first clan tribe in the Chinese nation that changed from fishing and hunting to farming, Yan Di Shennong created the agricultural culture of China.
In the early stage of agricultural development, the main technological progress was in domesticating wild plants. After tasting hundreds of herbs and trying to plant them, the ancients initially identified several main weeds suitable for planting, and the types of weeds in different regions were not the same.
In addition to some of the harvested seeds being eaten, people will choose full seeds to keep as seeds. This is actually the domestication process of wild animals and plants, which makes cultivated plants and cultured animals more and more different from their wild original species, becoming crops and livestock respectively.
China people attach great importance to seed protection and always do everything possible to protect crop seeds. There is even a saying that "people starve to death without eating seeds". This custom is more conducive to the cultivation of crop varieties. It can be speculated that in the middle of Shennong's reign, China has basically cultivated various main crop varieties.
Extended data:
The sufficiency of material production in primitive society brought about a surplus of products. According to the legends recorded in ancient books, the exchange of original products began to sprout in the era of Emperor Yan and Shennong.
"Hey. Cohesion "said:" Shennong takes Japan and China as the city, the people of the world, the goods of the world as the gathering place, and the retreat after the transaction, each in his place ". In order to solve everyone's surplus products, Yandi Shennong set up a market for people to exchange with each other, which led to the primitive commodity trading in China society, accelerated the transformation from primitive public ownership to slave private ownership, and laid the foundation for the birth of a new social system.
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