China Agricultural Books Catalog

Author: Wang Yuhu
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: After the manuscript was sent out, it took a long time before I could read an article by Mr. Liang Jiamian published in the third issue of Academic Research in 1963. Mr. Liang pointed out many errors in the first printing of this book. Some of them have been corrected in this revision, while others have not yet been revised. In addition to expressing my deep gratitude to Mr. Liang, I also hope readers can refer to his article. Recently, Mr. Hu Daojing published an article titled "Lun Mengxi's Forgetful Records" in Wen Shi, where he mentioned that some ancient Chinese agricultural books can be classified as belonging to the "Mountain Dwelling System." I strongly agree with Mr. Hu's opinion. In the article on Chinese agricultural books appended to the back of this book, I briefly discussed several systems or types of Chinese agricultural works, but I did not mention the "Mountain Dwelling" type. Now that I think about it, it should be considered an oversight. In the past, many works that could be regarded as agricultural books were indeed written by those "reclusive scholars." This is also an inevitable product of China's feudal small-peasant economy in the past.