"qi Min Yao Shu" Intensive System

This article makes a deep study of the intensive cultivation system of the ancient great agricultural works , with the traditional agricultural production process order and the intensive cultivation system of our coutry as clues. Its study includes the following five aspects: firstly, the premise of intensive cultivation, that is the building of farming tools and water conservancy; secondly , the measures to keep the ability of the soil renewal and rich; thirdly, the excellent technique of land preparation and cultivation; fourthly, the advanced technique of seed; and lastly, the farming harvest. Consequently, it reasons in theory and practice that our intensive cultivation system had developed into a case-hardened phase by the time of the Wei, Jin, South and North Dynasty. This system stipulates the direction of the agricultural development aftertime which makes us have a thoroughly different developing way from the west. At the same time it also points out that the intensive cultivation system can give us historic instruction and reference for the development of agriculture modernization which can help us solve such problems we're facing during the course of agricultural production as high consumption, high pollution of the conventional agriculture or the turn of the chemical agriculture.