A Study On The Agricultural Production Experience Of Guan Zi

Guan Zi is a philosophical book which is very important and synthetic in Pre-Qin period. Most of its chapters reflect China's social situation in the Warring States period. Yellow River valley is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, and the Yellow River civilization's formation and development is closely related to the agricultural production and development. To Guan Zi appeared, China's agriculture had already entered a new period of rapid development, and gradually formed the feudal agriculture. Farming gradually approached from the slash and burn to precision farming, which provided a good writing condition for Di Yuan of Guan Zi in particular. The records in Guan Zi on agriculture of the Spring and Autumn period summed up the experience in agricultural production.In a long-term agricultural production process, people accumulated a wealth of Nong shi knowledge. Guan Zi is a summary of them, and establishes a relatively complete system about Nong shi. Through the inspection of the relation between the soil and vegetation growth, Guan Zi not only carried out a detailed classification on soil, but also recorded for the suitable growth of vegetation one by one, according to the local conditions in which the idea was fully reflected. In crops and farm tools, the Guan Zi recorded in almost all the crops and farm tools, the cultivation of crops, field management and harvesting, and other aspects are also discussed. The Guan Zi to water is the lifeline of agriculture. Guan Zi established a knowledge system about irrigation through study of local rivers, and it played a guiding role in the construction of water conservancy projects and flood control. In addition, Guan Zi thinks poultry and livestock is important, and poultry and livestock become an important part of life.Comparing Guan Zi with other books in Pre-Qin period such as Shang Shu ? Yu Gong, Li ji ? Yue Ling and LüShi Chun Qiu ? Shang Nong and other papers, which include a wealth of agricultural knowledge, we can ensure Guan Zi has a far-reaching impact on future generations. Guan Zi plays a transitional role in the history of China's agricultural development , which summed up thought about the experience of agricultural production in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and laid the foundation for the development in Qin-Han Dynasty. Guan Zi is an important reference at the beginning of the formation for the ancient Chinese system of agriculture. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River civilization in the history of the development of farming, Guan Zi opens the way for the later development of agriculture and the whole ideological system of agriculture, so it has an important position in the history of China's agriculture.