On Agriculture by Ping (Translation of Famous Works)

Author: M.T. Varro (Ancient Rome), translated by Wang Jiashou
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Features: This book is one of the classical Western agricultural texts and serves as an important source for studying the economic conditions of Roman estates during the late Republic. It holds a certain position in the history of economic thought. It records a side of the economic life and activities in Italy in the 1st century BC, providing many authentic, reliable, and interesting historical facts that help understand the production practices of human society at that time. Of course, it can also be used to compare the production practices of China during the same period. Therefore, whether for the study of ancient Western history or general economic and agricultural history, this book holds certain reference value. This book is a comprehensive work on agricultural techniques, which was a practical science and technology reading material two thousand years ago. Today, the significance of translating it lies mainly in the documentary historical materials. It is nearly four hundred years earlier than China's earliest major work, Jia Sixie's The Essential Techniques for People of All Trades from the Northern Wei Dynasty, dating back to the Western Han Dynasty.