Farming culture, in the first two periods of the development of Chinese agricultural culture, namely the primitive agricultural culture and the traditional agricultural culture period, can be collectively referred to as the farming culture period or the ancient agricultural culture period. In the process of the emergence and development of Chinese culture, agricultural culture is the foundation because it aims to meet people’s most basic survival needs (clothing, food, shelter, and transportation). It determines the way of survival of the Han nation and shapes the Han national culture itself. China is one of the birthplaces of agricultural culture in the world. The farming culture of the Central Plains is the foundation and important birthplace of Chinese agricultural culture. Before the Song Dynasty, farming in the Central Plains was the axis of Chinese agricultural culture. The origin of agriculture is developed and closely related to the invention and creation of agricultural technology, agricultural systems and agricultural concepts.
Agricultural culture refers to the sum of material and spiritual culture related to agriculture created by agricultural production practice activities. The contents of the dam break can be divided into agricultural science and technology, agricultural ideas, agricultural systems and laws, agricultural festival customs, food culture, etc. Its development can be divided into three stages: primitive agricultural culture, traditional agricultural culture and modern agricultural culture. Agricultural civilization is the first form of civilization in human history. It refers to a cultural collection of state systems, etiquette systems, cultural education, etc. that are formed by farmers in long-term agricultural production to adapt to agricultural production and life needs. China's farming civilization integrates Confucian culture and various religious cultures to form its own unique cultural content and characteristics, but the main body includes national management concepts, interpersonal communication concepts, language, drama, folk songs, customs and various sacrificial activities. , is the most extensive cultural integration in the world.
We all learn the characteristics of the farming era from materials and books. The ideal family model in traditional Chinese culture is "farming, reading and inheriting the family", that is, we must have "farming" to maintain family life, and also There must be "reading" to improve the cultural level of the family. An important manifestation of agricultural civilization is that men farm and women weave. The scale is small, the division of labor is simple, self-sufficiency, and it is not used for commodity exchange. This kind of nurturing farming civilization respects the harmony of nature and is in line with the Chinese culture's principle of optimism and destiny, which is the highest cultivation of life. Lotte means knowing the laws and regulations of the universe, and knowing destiny means understanding the value and true meaning of life. Advocating a career in farming and education and advocating cooperation and tolerance rather than predatory use of natural resources are in line with today's concept of harmonious development. The farming civilization represented by fishing, woodworking, farming and reading is a practical summary of the production and life of the Han nation for thousands of years. It is a cultural form that has been condensed and inherited to this day by the essence of the Chinese people in different forms. Its concepts of being timely, appropriate, disciplined, and harmonious are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. At the same time, from an ideological point of view, the ideas and cultural characters contained in farming civilization are very consistent with values, such as the cultivation and nurturing of labor. : Unity and unity, independence, peace-loving, self-improvement, collective supremacy, respecting the elderly and caring for the young, hard work and bravery, enduring hardships, hard work, thrift, and helping neighbors. These values ??are still respected today, so farming culture is very precious.
There is also the custom culture formed in the long-term agricultural production, which is derived and developed centered on agricultural services and farmers' self-entertainment. There are dances, poems, novels, etc. that everyone knows in modern times. For example, the dancer Yang Liping is familiar to us. In addition to her classics "Peacock Dance" and "Two Trees" that everyone is familiar with, she served as the artistic director and chief choreographer in 2003 and starred in the large-scale original ecological song and dance "Yunnan Image". In 2011, he directed China's first large-scale original Tibetan song and dance music "Tibetan Mystery", which came from the fields of farmers in the southwest mountainous areas and Tibetan folk customs. He only had a thorough understanding of agricultural civilization and incorporated it into the composition of art. Only then can all people be able to show the long history and beauty of Chinese farming culture through original artistic expression.