Why is agriculture the mother of civilization?

Because of the emergence of farming civilization, the development of productive forces has been greatly improved. As a result, the matriarchal society of human beings has been transformed into paternal society, which has promoted the economic and political development. It is precisely because of the emergence of farming civilization that human beings have continuously made creative progress.

Archaeologists in China have been exploring it as an important academic topic for decades, and have conducted investigations and excavations in Jianghuai, Hehan and Han basins and vast areas, and found a number of sites, such as Zhupiyan in Guilin, Guangxi, Wannian Xiandong in Jiangxi, Cishan in Wu 'an, Hebei, Peiligang in Xinzheng, Henan, Nanzhuangtou in Xu Shui, Hebei, Pengtoushan in Lixian, Hunan and other places. The first two sites are about eight or nine thousand years ago. Wu 'an Cishan site and Xinzheng Peiligang site are also earlier than Yangshao culture in the Central Plains, seven or eight thousand years ago.

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The production structure of agriculture in China includes planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sideline; But for thousands of years, it has been mainly planted. Due to the large population and relatively small cultivated land area, grain production is particularly dominant. In the traditional concept, growing food is almost synonymous with agricultural production. Planting is agriculture in a narrow sense.

Since the 1950s, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sideline have all increased on the original basis, but their proportion in the total agricultural output value has not changed much. After 1979, due to the reform of rural economic system and the policy of "never relaxing grain production and actively developing diversified economy", the rural economy changed from a relatively single operation to a diversified commodity economy, and forestry, animal husbandry, fishing and sideline industries all increased on the original basis, and the situation began to change significantly.

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