The Influence of Traditional Intensive Agriculture on China

1, positive: farmers' lives are relatively stable and farmers' enthusiasm for production is high.

2. Negative: small production scale and simple gender division of labor make it difficult to expand reproduction, which hinders the development of social division of labor and exchange economy and social development.

Intensive cultivation is the production mode of ancient agriculture in China. Intensive cultivation sprouted in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Warring States, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was the period of technology formation, the Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties was the period of intensive cultivation expansion, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties was the period of in-depth development.

Expand the historical development of intensive cultivation data

1, Spring and Autumn Period to Qin and Han Dynasties

Features: Intensive cultivation begins.

Performance:

The most advanced ridge tillage method in the world appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period.

(2) Zhao's practice of replacing farmland in Han Dynasty can prevent wind and drought; The area field method appeared, which strengthened the intensive cultivation technology.

③ The Fan Sheng Zhi Book, an agricultural work in Han Dynasty, reflects the whole process law of crops from cultivation to harvest.

The rickshaw was invented in the Han Dynasty.

⑤ Continuous cropping system is the main farming system. In some places, the fallow system is implemented, resulting in a two-year triple cropping system.

2. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties

Features: The agricultural production technology characterized by intensive cultivation in the Yellow River Basin is becoming more and more mature.

Performance:

① The Book of Qi Yao Min in the Northern Wei Dynasty is the earliest excellent agricultural book in the world.

② The area of cultivated land in the south of the Yangtze River has been expanded, and the farming technology has made great progress.

3. Sui and Tang Dynasties

Characteristics: Intensive cultivation techniques of rice fields in South China are gradually maturing.

Performance:

① Techniques such as seedling raising and transplanting are widely used in rice planting.

(2) Qu Yuan Plough appeared in Jiangdong area, and the intensive cultivation technology adapted to paddy fields and various soils is improving day by day.

4. Song and Yuan Dynasties

Features: Intensive cultivation technology has entered a comprehensive maturity.

Performance:

(1) farming tools and hoes have appeared in the dry land in the north.

(2) A double cropping system of rice-wheat rotation was formed in the south of the Yangtze River, and a triple cropping system was formed in some places, and the economic center moved south.

③ The communication of crop varieties is very extensive.

5. Ming and Qing Dynasties

Features: Intensive farming develops continuously.

Performance:

① Two-year triple cropping system and three-year quadruplecropping system are implemented in the north, and various forms of one-year double cropping system are developed in the Yangtze River basin in the south.

② A large number of new crop varieties have been cultivated.

③ Introduce high-yield crops such as corn and sweet potato from abroad.

(4) Expand the planting area of cash crops and form professional production areas.

⑤ Agricultural works such as The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration and Heavenly Creations appeared.

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