In a country like China,where agriculture is the mainstay,agricultural works naturally pro-liferate.The boom in the creation of agricultural books in the Qing Dynasty was particularly great,with a huge volume and a wide variety of categories,accounting for more than 60％of the total number of books written in previous dynasties.However,under the prosperous scene of agricultural books,the view of agricul-tural books in the Qing Dynasty shrank compared with the previous dynasty.Since the Song Dynasty,the an-cient concept of agriculture has a tendency to expand,some of the leisure,ornamental flowers and tea geneal-ogy and other writings can be included in the scope of the agriculturalist.However,in the Qing dynasty,these writings that had nothing to do with farming and sericulture were deleted,and both official and private bibliographies emphasized the practicality of the content covered by agricultural books,and strictly limited the scope of inclusion to agricultural sang knowledge directly related to clothing and food raw materials.The shift of the Qing people's view of agricultural books to practicality was brought about by the combined ac-tion of many factors such as practical thought,population pressure,economic benefits,and Huayi concepts.
agricultural book viewofficial bibliographyprivate bibliographyknowledge of farm-ing and sericulture
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