What are the main characteristics of ancient agricultural development in China?

Intensive cultivation is adapted to local conditions, focusing on improving land utilization rate and increasing yield per unit area, and adopting a series of technical measures such as improved varieties, intensive cultivation, thin tubes and more fertilization. Its formation is related to the small-scale peasant management mode and the gradual formation of the pattern of more people and less land under the feudal landlord economic system. In terms of agronomy and yield, Chinese traditional agriculture once reached the highest level in the ancient world.

Taking grain production as the center, diversification is the dominant form of traditional agricultural production structure in China. In addition to this kind of agricultural areas, there are pastoral areas dominated by nomadic economy, which are interdependent and have ups and downs in different periods.

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Chinese traditional agriculture has gone through the following stages:

1, Xia, Shang, Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn are the transitional periods from primitive agriculture to intensive traditional agriculture, characterized by furrow agriculture related to bronze tools, ploughing and connection.

2. The Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were the formation period of intensive cultivation, which was characterized by the formation of a dry land agricultural technology system with tillage, harrowing and tillage as the core;

3. The Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties were a period of intensive cultivation and agricultural expansion, which was mainly characterized by the formation of paddy field agricultural technology system with tillage, harrowing and tillage as the core;

4. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were a period of intensive cultivation and sustained development, which was mainly manifested in coping with the contradiction between population and land shortage caused by rapid population growth, devoting to improving multiple cropping index and expanding cultivated land, and the land utilization rate reached the highest level of traditional agriculture.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Traditional Agriculture