Basic characteristics of ancient agriculture

1, mode of production: small-scale peasant economic mode of production with men plowing and women weaving. Appeared in the late spring and autumn period

2. Basic characteristics of ancient agriculture in China: Small-scale peasant economy was the basic mode of agricultural production in China feudal society for a long time. Small-scale peasant economy takes the family as the unit of production and life, and combines agriculture with cottage industry. The main purpose of production is to meet their basic living needs and pay taxes, and it is a self-sufficient natural economy. In China, the self-sufficient natural economy always dominated the feudal economy.

Extended data:

Chinese traditional agriculture (English name: Chinese traditional agriculture) is a typical organic agriculture, which embodies and implements China's traditional thought of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, natural conditions, geographical location, harmonious relationship between people and various material things, intensive cultivation, crop rotation and interplanting, combination of land use and farming, and combination of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.

Chinese traditional agriculture is intensive agriculture, which is mainly characterized by intensive cultivation according to local conditions, focusing on improving land utilization and increasing yield per unit area, and adopting a series of technical measures such as improved varieties, intensive cultivation, thin tubes and more fertilizer. Its formation is related to the small-scale peasant management mode and the gradual formation of the pattern of more people and less land under the feudal landlord economic system. In terms of agronomy and yield, Chinese traditional agriculture once reached the highest level in the ancient world.

Since the Warring States Period, agricultural ethnic areas and nomadic ethnic areas with the Great Wall as the boundary have been formed. There are also some indigenous farming groups in pastoral areas, but they are mainly nomadic economies with a single tendency. Pastoral areas have a weak planting foundation and depend on agricultural areas economically. Some agricultural products and handicrafts need to be imported from agricultural areas.

Agricultural areas also need pastoral areas to supply some livestock and livestock products. The two economic zones have economic ties through official and private, legal and illegal mutual markets. When they are blocked, wars often occur. This special production structure interwoven with ethnic relations had a great influence on the economic and political development of ancient China.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia: Chinese Traditional Agriculture