A Study On Ancient Farm Poetry Of China

The paper is primary investigation on ancient farm poem. Ancient farm poem is belong to the China traditional culture . It is very lamentable if we could not sorting and research the cultural heritage of agriculture. The origin of the ancient farm poem is based on labour of agriculture or anima husbandry, religions, sings and dances of the pre-historical. An inauspicious start to the research of ancient farm poetry before Qin Dynasty is that there is too little material to read. The author of this paper just could found out twenty-one poems in The Book of Songs and fours poems in the other material. Most of these verses are related the problem of lobbers. Therefore , the character and function of ancient farm poem are provide good service for landlord. This situation was changed when scholars emerged at Qin Dynasty. Social factors of the development of ancient farm poem from Han to Tang are a complicated question. The poem possess distinguishing feature in the feudal dynasties of past ages. At Fist, the number of this kind of poem is few although it has Tao Yuan min. At the same time, the proportion of folk songs to farm poem in the figure has changed so that there are fewer farm poem and more folk songs . in Wei jin south and North Dynasty. Second , the idyll and pastoral poet are flourishing, such as Wang Wei, Meng Hao ran. They are very important poets in Literary history of China. The epoch-making event is the raise of poem which is spread the special knowledge to the farmer. For instance, some of them is talk about farm implements, some of them related to cultivating skill and so on. This kind of poem is so thriving and prospering day by day that even the emperors of Qing Dynasty write a great quantity poems to show their attach importance to the agriculture. The last section of the paper is sum up the main points of the poem. The poem about farm tools , melon and vegetables , cow , silkworm, tea in the successive dynasties.