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Ancient China's agricultural development is also quite good, what are their main characteristics

Adapted to the local conditions according to the time, intensive cultivation, centered on improving the land utilization rate and increasing the yield per unit area, adopting a series of technical measures, such as good seeds, intensive cultivation, fine management, and more fertilizers. Its formation is related to the gradual formation of the small-farming mode of operation and the pattern of large population and small arable land under the feudal landlord economic system. In terms of agronomy and yield, traditional Chinese agriculture had reached the highest level in the ancient world.

Multiple operations centered on grain cultivation were the dominant form of traditional Chinese agricultural production structure. Beyond such agricultural areas, there were pastoral areas where nomadic economy dominated, and the two depended on each other, and at different times, they were mutually dependent on each other.

Expanded information:

Traditional agriculture in China has gone through the following phases:

By and large.

1, Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn is the transition from primitive agriculture to the traditional agricultural form of intensive cultivation, the main feature is the bronze tools, Lei Zhi, coupled ploughing, linked to the ditch agriculture;

2, the Warring States period, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties is the intensive cultivation of agronomy in the shaping of the period, the main feature is the formation of dry-land agricultural technology system centered on ploughing, harrowing, ursing;

3, Sui, Tang, Song, Song, and South dynasties are the formation of intensive agricultural technology;

4, Sui, Tang, Song, and South China. The Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties are the expansion period of intensive farming, mainly characterized by the formation of water-field agricultural technology system centered on plowing, harrowing, and middle-land agriculture;

4 the Ming and Qing dynasties are the sustained development period of intensive farming, mainly characterized by coping with the contradiction of large population and small arable land due to the population explosion, and committed to increasing the compound seed index and expanding arable land, and the land utilization rate reached the highest level of traditional agriculture. The land utilization rate reached the highest level of traditional agriculture.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Agriculture