Farming is described by culture.

Grasp the wet grass and cook tea slowly, and learn poetry and calligraphy to grow melons for the time being. Half an acre of lotus wind shakes the moon shadow, and a garden of spring water protects peach blossoms. There is no rain in the heart, and the road to lightness is limited. How many things have been solved by the sickle plough, and the silver hoe is waving at home.

Agriculture is the earliest social production activity that human beings engaged in, and it is also a social activity that human beings transform nature. China's farming culture has a long history. According to archaeological findings, as early as Hemudu period, there were grain fossils.

The Book of Songs is a collection of poems reflecting the social life of the Zhou Dynasty, which contains many agricultural poems related to agricultural production activities, and to a great extent reflects China's ancient agricultural cultural thought and the life form of the agricultural society.