Rice Meal and Fish Soup:The Southern China Factors in the Qi Min Yao Shu
Qi Min Yao Shu,written by Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty,is a classic among the traditional Chinese a-griculture classics and an important historical material for studying ancient Chinese history.The book consists of ten volumes,with the tenth volume entitled"Grains,Fruits,and Vegetables Not Native to the China",implying that the contents of the first nine volumes pertain to the products of the"Chinese"regions in the Northern Wei Dynasty.Therefore,Qi Min Yao Shu is also regarded as an agricultural work reflecting agriculture in the Yellow River basin of ancient China,specifically a northern agri-cultural book.However,upon a closer examination of its contents,it is found that the book contains many atypical northern fac-tors,such as rice,fish,bamboo,orange,water shield,lotus,cordon euryale,water chestnut,wild rice,cabbage,ginger,Yuan,Yue melon,rhododendron,buffalo,and so on.Apart from the possibility that the northern environment provided for the existence at that time,these elements show the involvement and presence of southern factors in terms of place name,rice cultivation tech-niques,and fish distribution.Starting from products and technology,this study tries to reveal the southern China agricultural ele-ments it contained and explore ways that those elements had developed in the north,including personnel exchange and textual transmission,in order to show the cultural exchange and technological dissemination between agriculture in southern and north-ern China that has been ignored by previous studies.
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