元代生态思想与实践举要

On the Ecological Theory and Its Practices during Yuan Dynasty

在理论上,元人尚未完全突破"灾异说",但是,在蝗虫灾害的应对实践中,元人完全突破了"灾异说",且比宋人做得更好。在人和动物的关系问题上,元人坚持人类中心,既反对滥杀动物,也反对动物中心论。在农业生态方面,从朝廷到士大夫,在科学研究和农业实践两个层面,其成就都卓然可观。

In Yuan Dynasty, the scholars had not thoroughly abandoned the theory about plague that had been popular since Han Dynasty, however, they broke through the theory in the actions to wipe out the locusts that resulted in some plagues, and did better than the scholars in Song Dynasty. They were more practical than the scholars in Song Dynasty in that they insisted on human centrism, but at the same time they stroke a good balance of relationship between human view of animal centrism. In agriculture and animal. They advocated animal protection, while went against the ecology, the central government and the scholars got a lot of achievements in agricultural research and farming practice.