The Mountain Farming Culture Implied in Ancient Stone Tablet Inscriptions of the Dong People and Its Value in Rural Revitalization Practice
Agriculture,rural and peasant issues has been the fundamental problem concerning national economy and people's livelihood all the time.It has been paid great attention to by all the governments in hundreds and thousands of years,during which,the civil and the official have accumulated and kept a large number of historical documents about agriculture,reflecting a great ancient agricultural development of a long history and brilliant civilization and catching the world's attention.The Dong people tablet inscription,which caries the history of agriculture as a corner of an iceberg in the sea of China's agricultural historical documents and the special categories in national folk literature retains a considerable number of historical regulation data of cultivation,forestry,animal husbandry,water resources production order,rural public welfare and governance,all representing the mountain farming culture in many aspects,such as the Dong people ecological protection,resource utilization,farming techniques,livelihood knowledge,public welfare management,dispute mediation,and the harmony of human and nature,making a kind of precious"teaching material"for the transmission of countryside farming culture as well a special"historical book"of displaying the traditional agricultural society,which is indispensable in the study of regional economic and social history and having a positive value to promoting the strategy of rural revitalization in ethnic areas.
Mountain Farming CultureThe Dong people Tablet InscriptionsValue AnalysisRural Revitalization