The Promulgation And Popularization Of Agricultural Books In Yuan Dynasty

As a traditional agricultural country,China has been adhering to the concept of "farming-oriented" in dynasties.Agricultural books,as a summary of agricultural production experience and production technology,have been valued by successive rulers and agronomists.In 1260,the Yuan Dynasty has already abolished the Jin Dynasty,but not yet merged with the Song Dynasty.Because of perennial war,the agricultural production of the northern region is almost stagnant.With the suggestion of Han officials,Kublai commanded Emphasis on Mulberry at the beginning of his reign and promulgated Collection of Agricultural Mulberry,the earliest existing official agricultural books in China.There have been a number of private compiling agricultural books in the Yuan Dynasty.From the publication,printing and promulgation of Collection of Agricultural Mulberry to the whole country,formed a complete set of processes.The agricultural books not only spread widely in the place of the Yuan Dynasty,but also disseminated to Koryo and prompted the compilation of North Korea’s first agricultural book Straightforward Farming.The official enactment of agricultural books in Yuan Dynasty promoted the spread of agricultural knowledge and played a certain role in restoring agricultural production and developing economy.But it is limited.In the course of the implementation of agricultural books,the acts of persuading agricultural nuisance and officials to misrepresent Mulberry books.In the Yuan generation,the conflict between nomads and farming has always existed.The accompanying ethnic contradictions and cultural conflicts continue to fail to solve,so there is a great resistance to the implementation of the Yuan Dynasty agricultural books.Rulers try to strengthen control over the people through the enactment of agricultural books.But the official enactment of agricultural books does not regulate this contradiction and conflict.And eventually led to the collapse of the persuasion system.