Significance of Farming Culture

The following are the significance of farming culture:

1. Providing Food: The core of farming culture is agricultural production, which can provide sufficient food supply for human beings through farming and breeding. The development of farming culture enables human beings to get rid of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and realize stable food production and food security.

2. Promoting social progress: The rise of farming culture gave birth to the formation of cities and the progress of human society. Farming culture laid the foundation for urbanization, professional division of labor and the development of civilization, and promoted the development of human society towards a more complex and organized form.

3. Formation of values: A wealth of values, such as hard work, filial piety and respect for nature, emerged from farming culture. In the process of planting, cultivating and harvesting, people gradually formed the understanding and values of labor, family, community and social order, which is of great significance to the harmony and stability of the society.

4. Inheriting history and culture: Farming culture has been passed down from generation to generation, and a rich history and culture has been inherited through word of mouth, festival customs and folk art. Farming culture contains rich cultural connotations such as reverence for the land, seasonal cycles, traditional knowledge, etc., and plays an important role in maintaining national cultural diversity and identity.

5. Protecting the ecological environment: farming culture emphasizes the harmony between man and nature **** life, focusing on saving resources and protecting the ecological environment. Farming culture advocates sustainable agriculture and rational use of natural resources, which helps promote green development and ecological civilization.

Characteristics of Farming Culture

Farming civilization determines the characteristics of Chinese culture. Chinese culture is a type of culture distinct from nomadic culture, in which agriculture plays a decisive role. The predatory character of nomadic civilization, born out of the hunting culture that preceded it, differs markedly from Chinese civilization, which is indiscriminately based on cultivation.

The agricultural civilization of living in clusters and intensive cultivation has nurtured a self-sufficient lifestyle, cultural traditions, agricultural ideology, rural management system, etc., which coincides with today's concept of harmony, environmental protection and low carbon. Historically, nomadic civilizations often disappeared because they could not adapt to environmental changes.

The geographical diversity, historical inheritance, and folklore of farming civilization are not only important features of Chinese culture, but also important reasons why Chinese culture has continued to flourish.