明清理学家张履祥的农本思想

Neo-Confucianist ZHANG Lv-xiang's thought of taking agriculture as foundation

明清之际的理学家张履祥,在变革动荡的社会走入乡间,认识到并重新诠释了农业的重要地位,认为农业关乎百姓生活、家国天下治乱兴废存亡,又通过亲身践履农业生产活动,著述了《补农书》,总结出嘉湖特定区域的农业生产技术,提出了重视兴修水利等重要主张。对于造成农村社会问题的根源,他还从吏治等维度开展了深刻的反思。

During the period of late Ming dynasty and the early days of Qing dynasty, Neo-Confucianist ZHANG Lv-xiang came to the village and concerned about the agriculture, farmer and rural area of his time in his social reflection view. He realized profoundly and reinterpreted the importance of the agriculture; and carried on the agriculture labor and wrote Supplement to the Book on Agriculture,which summarized diligently the agricultural knowledge of Jiahu area and proposed some suggestion such as building water conservancy projects. On the issue of the rural social problems, he reflected the unfair social system of his time from the perspective of officials administration.