What is the significance of the rise of agriculture?

First, the symbol of the rise and development of the agricultural era is the emergence of planting economy.

With the development of social productive forces, people gradually change from hunting and gathering to raising and planting. The original cultivation has also become the main food source, which is much more stable than the previous hunting behavior, and agriculture has gradually begun to rise.

Second, the significance of the rise of agriculture

After the emergence of agriculture, people have changed the relationship between man and nature, which depends on the gift of nature. People can get as much food from a small piece of land as from gathering and hunting on a larger piece of land. Only by applying the knowledge of biological reproduction to agricultural production practice can people rely on their own activities to proliferate natural products and find a more stable and reliable source of food and clothing. Since then, people have put forward some initiatives in nature. Therefore, after the emergence of agriculture, it soon became the basic production department in ancient China. Due to the gradual development of agriculture, people can not only meet the needs of producers themselves, but also produce surplus grain. At this time, cities appeared, and the division of labor between agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts, especially mental labor, could be distinguished from manual labor.

Third, the development of primitive agriculture.

Developed farming is the main economic sector. At that time, people used large polished stone knives and axes to reclaim farmland. They also widened and extended the flattened stone tablet, drilled holes and installed wooden handles as the main excavation tools. In addition, there are improved bones and double-toothed wood mines.

In the late Longshan culture, there appeared a triangular stone plow pulled by people. Various ploughing tools, such as stone hoes and clam hoes, have also been unearthed in various places, which are agricultural tools for weeding, indicating that field management has been strengthened. Traces of water conservancy irrigation have been found in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is the characteristic of rice planting, indicating that the technology of water conservancy fertilization has been mastered initially. Harvesting tools have also been significantly improved. On the basis of the existing half-moon stone knives and clam knives, the stone knives are lengthened and perforated.

Rice cultivation is more common in the south. Today, rice or rice residues can be found in many places in southern provinces and regions.

On the basis of agricultural development, animal husbandry has also made remarkable progress. Besides pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, there are also horses and chickens. Later, the so-called "six livestock" was complete.

Fishing, hunting and gathering still occupy a certain position in economic life. Various arrows, net pendants and animal bones such as deer, musk deer, fox, tiger and fish have been found in the Longshan cultural site in the north. Fishing and hunting are still an important production activity.