Reading abandons agriculture and makes people hungry and cold; Farming wastes reading, and etiquette dies. What do you mean?

Zhang Lvxiang said in Xun Zi Yu that "reading and abandoning farming are hungry and cold; If you plow and waste your studies, etiquette will die. " China's farming and reading culture has bred many agronomists and produced a large number of agricultural ancient books. China's farming and reading culture has bred many agronomists and produced a large number of agricultural ancient books. The quantity and level of agricultural ancient books in China are rare in other countries. Most ancient agricultural books were written by intellectuals who lived a life of farming and reading. They are familiar with ancient books, have writing ability, have participated in agricultural production, have knowledge of agricultural production, and have the conditions to write agricultural books. Cui Ai was born in a noble family in the Qing Dynasty. As a teenager, he was familiar with Confucian classics. When he was young, he ran his own farm. Based on his own experience, he wrote the Four People's Monthly Order, which is a monthly agricultural magazine.

In ancient China, some intellectuals regarded part-time farming and part-time reading as a reasonable way of life, and regarded "farming and reading to spread the family" and the combination of farming and reading as their own value orientation, forming a "farming and reading culture"