曾之谨《农器谱》与宋代江西农耕文明的发展

On Zeng Zhijin’s Records of Agricultural Tools and Development of Jiangxi Agricultural Civilization in Song Dynasty

江西是世界农耕文明的发源地之一,宋代是江西农业发展的鼎盛时期,其中最能代表农业生产力发展水平的是生产工具的改进创新及先进生产工具的推广和普及,曾之谨专门论述农具的著作《农器谱》正是这一时期江西农耕文明进步发展的理论结晶。《农器谱》是一部最早系统记述各种农具的专著,对当时江西乃至全国的农业生产有较大的促进作用。

Jiangxi is one of the cradles of world’s agriculture civilization. The Song Dynasty was the heyday of Jiangxi’s agriculture development, when agriculture productive force was mainly reprensented by the improvement and innovation of production tools, and the promotion and popularization of advanced production tools. The book Records of Agricultural Tools written by Zeng Zhijin was the theoretical crystallization of improvement and development of agriculture production tools of Jiangxi Province then. Records of Agricultural Tools, as the earliest monograph that systematically records, illustrated various agricultural tools, which greatly promoted agricultural production of Jiangxi province and even the whole country at that time.