Acculturation And Influence Of China Rice Cultivation On Japan During The Qin And Han Dynasties

As the two most important countries in ancient East Asia, China and Japan witnessed the frequent intercommunication in a long history. China's the Qin and Han Dynasties, the same time corresponding with Japan's Yayoi time, Qin Dynasty finished the comprehensive union of whole countries, and realized the formidable centralization of state power. All aspects of its politics, economy and culture were greatly developed and formed the first silver age in Sino-Japanese relations. As the main agricultural culture in Southern Yangtze River area, rice cultivation made the rapid progress and become the important content in the acculturation of China rice cultivation to Japan. Concerning to this kind of acculturation, this article researches this historical topic in virtue of the agricultural history research method, and comprehensively summarize the acculturation of China rice cultivation and systematically analyzes the influence on Japan during the Qin and Han Dynasties.This article is divided into five parts as following:Chapterâ… : Introduction. It expatiates on the purpose and significance of this article on the background of agricultural exchange history between China and Japan, elaborated this research goal and the significance; Summarizes the domestic and foreign researches, outlines the developing trend of research and elaborates the researching method and innovation spot of this article.Chapterâ…¡: The conditions of the acculturation of China rice cultivation to Japan during the Qin and Han Dynasties. Firstly, this article analyses the influences of many factors such as the geographical and climatic conditions of the Qin and Han Dynasties China rice cultivation, the capacity of spanning across rivers and sea as well as the dissemination in space and time. And then proves the possibility of acculturation to Japan; Secondly, it explains the influences of national power on large-scale rice cultivation and the acculturation to Japan during Qin and Han Dynasties. Since the establishment of Qin and Han Dynasties, the national strength rapidly developed and the technological science make outstanding progress, especially in the aspects of ship-building development and economic booming, formidable politics resource, and the change of people thought culture. All of the above mentioned factors further promoted the dissemination of Chinese rice cultivation to Japan.Chapterâ…¢: Comparison of the rice vestige and the relic discovered by China and Japan archeological excavation. It found out that the Southern Yangtze River area's rice cultivation was directly spread to Japan through the sea route. Following the social development, the acculturation of rice cultivation to Japan was changed from the folk communication to official communication and commercial trade because of the war.Chapterâ…£: Elaboration on the dissemination of Chinese rice cultivation to Japan in three aspects of rice type, rice cultivating tool and rice s production technology. As early as in the ancient time, there was the evidence that China's primitive farming culture began to enter Japan; After entering into the Qin and Han Dynasties, arising from the rapid social and economic development, the rice cultivation confronted with unprecedented developing opportunity and the cultivation technique of production and farming tool had achieved the advanced level in the world.Chapterâ…¤: Influence of China rice cultivation on Japan during the Qin and Han Dynasties. It greatly affected Japan's development in the early time and changed Japan's agricultural production as well as the social culture, especially, the acculturation of rice cultivation pulled open prelude of Yayoi time in Japan characterized with rice cultivation as main agricultural production and the use of metal farming tool which greatly promoted the productive development in agriculture. Therefore, the original agricultural production mainly through plant collection and hunting and fishing in Japan, marked as rope figure time in Japan, was ended and the Japanese began to enter into the residence time. Based on the above factors, the social class and the framework of nation were gradually formed.