What political significance did Duke Zhou give to ancient farming activities?

Duke Zhou endowed farming activities with two political meanings:

(1) Inheriting the tradition-planting crops is the cause of the Wang Ye of the Zhou family.

(2) It can prevent the nobles from being as corrupt as the upper class in Shang Dynasty.

Corresponding to the importance attached by the Duke of Zhou to agriculture, a large number of agricultural poems were preserved in Zhou Song, Scholars and Xiaoya in The Book of Songs, which reflected the choice of agricultural culture direction in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhou people regard farming as a political way, which has a deeper connotation, that is, farming activities are related to people's harmony and moral frugality. Farming is not only a simple livelihood in the spiritual concept of Zhou people, but also has many additional functions. Agriculture was the mainstay of the economy in the Western Zhou Dynasty and even for a long time to come. Zhou people attached great importance to agriculture, which greatly promoted the development of agriculture in China. The "physiocratism" that prevailed in China for thousands of years originated from the farming politics of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

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