What are the characteristics of natural economy?

(1) Its basic characteristics are: family-style production, the combination of agriculture and cottage industry, "men plow and women weave", and basically self-sufficient.

(2) Compared with other economies, it has the following characteristics:

Because it is produced by family, it is scattered;

Because it is basically self-sufficient and rarely touches the market, it is closed;

Because of its small production scale, it is impossible to accumulate too much, and it is easy to go bankrupt in case of natural and man-made disasters, so it is fragile;

Because of its simple division of labor and small scale, it is difficult to expand reproduction and has no desire to improve technology, so it is conservative;

However, because of this, it also has tenacious regeneration ability.

Extended data:

The progress of production tools, especially the use of iron farm tools and the use of Niu Geng technology; Progress in agricultural technology; The emergence of private land.

Farming method

1. Primitive agriculture adopts slash-and-burn mode.

2. Seven or eight thousand years ago, the appearance and widespread use of Lei Geng marked that China agriculture entered the stage of "ploughing the fields" or "hoeing the fields with stone tools".

3. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, a small number of bronze farm tools and intertillage farm tools appeared, and techniques such as furrow irrigation, weeding and soil cultivation, green manure retting and pest control were mastered. Agricultural production has been developed.

4. Iron farm tools and Niu Geng appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, which became popular in the Warring States Period. Since then, the iron plow Niu Geng has become the main farming method of Chinese traditional agriculture.

5. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Qu Yuan Plow (Jiangdong Plow) appeared in Jiangdong area, which marked the basic stereotype of the traditional walking plow in China.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Natural Economy