论商周青铜农具及其制作使用

BRONZE FARM TOOLS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE IN SHANG AND ZHOU DYNASTIES

本文依据对大量出土实物及古文献的研究,指出在中国古代存在着一个农具发展的铜石并用时期,部分地区已构成了独立的青铜农具发展阶段,与从石农具直接过渡到铁农具的西方发展模式有别。这一特点对铸铁农具在中国的早期出现与迅速推广,起着重要的促进作用。

On the basis of a study of numerous unearthed artifacts and historical documents, this paper points out that there was in ancient China a period of development for farm tools in which bronze and stone were used in their manufacture, while in some of its areas bronze farm tools had reached the stage of independent developrnent and all this was different with the mode of development of Western countries whose transition of stone farm tools into iron farm tools had been a direct one. These played an important role for the early appearance and rapid spread of cast-iron farm tools in China.