The invention of the plow and how long it has been around

Slei can be said to be the earliest form of farming in China, the primitive agriculture of farming is slash-and-burn, people mainly use stone axes, stone shovels, wooden Lei, bone ploughs, stone sickle and other simple labor tools. Into the age of civilization, Lei, ??ê is still an important tool for agricultural production. Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, people mastered the technology of iron smelting, iron agricultural tools gradually replaced the past stone, bone and other heavy and fragile agricultural tools. This change greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production at that time.

Development of plowing technology: Around the late Spring and Autumn period, oxen plowing began to appear. In the middle and late Warring States period, iron plows were used for oxen plowing. In the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the invention and use of the plow wall enabled the popularization of ox plowing. In the Tang Dynasty, the curvilinear plow already appeared in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The invention of the curved plough is another breakthrough in the reform of agricultural tools since the Han Dynasty, and its emergence marks the basic stereotypes of the traditional Chinese walking plow.