摘要
本文着重从整体上对《齐民要术》中农谚进行初步考察。一,在明确农谚概念的基础上,通过仔细检索,认为《要术》至少有45条农谚。二,初步探讨了《要术》农谚的来源、特征和价值。指出:作者亲自从民间采集是其主要来源,形式古朴、分布不均衡等是其重要特征,而帮助理解古代农业技术、保存早期农谚等是其主要价值。三,在全面考虑诸说的前提下,对两则争议最大的农谚提出管见,认为:"作暴"即"放弃不做";而"回车倒马"则是反映区田法下种植密度与产量的农谚。
This essay emphatically deals with the farmer's proverbs in 'Important Means of Subsistens for CommonPeople'. Giving the precise concept of farmer's proverbs and looking through the whole agricultural thises, I realizethat there are at least 45 farmer's proverbs in it, I studied the origin, features and values of the fimer's proverbs in'Important Means of Subsistens for Common People' and I think most of the proverbs were collected from the folksby the author .They are simple and unsophisticated in form and distributed unevenly in either chapters or ontechniques, which are their important feactures. They can help to understand the ancient agricultural technique andshow us the looking of ancient farmer's proverbs. After thinking about the explanations of the farmer's proverbs byother researchers, I analized two of the proverbs, which caused most arguments, My undrstanding is, '作暴'means 'leave something undone' while '回车倒马'. shows in the pit fields the relation between the crop thicknessand the yields.
出处
《中国农史》
CSSCI
北大核心
1998年第4期79-88,共10页
Agricultural History of China