The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which contains many poems describing farming activities. These poems are mainly concentrated in "National Style" and "Xiaoya", including the following:
National Wind and Folk Customs in July: This is a long poem describing farmers' life, describing farmers' farming activities all year round, plowing, sowing, weeding in summer, harvesting in autumn, storing, spinning and hunting in winter. This poem reflects the hardships of agricultural production and farmers' life at that time.
Xiaoya New Nanshan: This poem depicts the vast and fertile land of Nanshan and expresses the great-grandson's hopes and prayers for a bumper agricultural harvest. The poem mentions natural phenomena such as "the sky is in the same cloud, rain and snow are in the same storm", which implies the influence of climate change on agricultural production.
Futian, Xiaoya: This poem describes the scene of cultivating Futian and expresses the desire for a bumper harvest. The growth of crops such as Wei Weijie Festival mentioned in the poem reflects the basic knowledge of agricultural production at that time.
Daejeon, Xiaoya: This poem depicts the vast and fertile land of Daejeon and expresses the great-grandson's hopes and prayers for a bumper agricultural harvest. The poem mentions some methods to prevent and control pests and diseases, such as "eliminating moths and insects is harmless to our fields", which reflects the awareness of ecological protection in agricultural production at that time.
In addition, there are other agricultural poems in The Book of Songs, such as Xie, Chen Gong, Feng Nian, Zai Ji and Liang Ji, which all describe the agricultural production activities in the Zhou Dynasty.
In a word, the agricultural poetry in The Book of Songs is an important part of China ancient culture. They reflect the prosperity of agricultural production and the richness of agricultural culture at that time, and are also important materials for studying the agricultural production and social development in ancient China.