唐代农书“稀见”现象探析

An Analysis of the Rare Phenomenon of Agricultural Books in Tang Dynasty

唐代农书在存目的数量上相对稀少,农书内容与质量相对薄弱,未能出现较重要的农学思想和农业技术。唐代士人的著述动机在科举初兴的催动下表现出较强的功利性,行卷习例使得士人著述偏狭于仕进,鲜能触及农家末学;农学观念的扩大与道教倾向使得农书著录和内容杂驳,从而淡化了农学价值;经济重心的南移使江南农业初兴,北方农书创作相对低落,却为南方农书的发展奠定了基础;农书的传播与农技的推广相悖而行,加上两次文献遭厄使得农书流传多舛,"稀见"语境下的唐代农书开启了后世农学发展的诸多路径。

The number of agricultural books in Tang Dynasty is relatively rare,the contentand quality of agricultural books are relatively weak,and there is no important agricultural thought and agricultural technology.Driven by the rise of the imperial examination,thewriting motivation of the scholars in the Tang Dynasty showed strong utilitarianism;Theexpansion of agronomic concept and the tendency of Taoism make the description and contentof agricultural books confused,thus weakening the value of agronomy;The southward shiftof economic center made agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River prosper,while the cre-ation of agricultural books in the North was relatively low,which laid the foundation for thedevelopment of agricultural books in the south;The spread of agricultural books was contra-ry to the promotion of agricultural technology,and the two times of literature suffering madethe circulation of agricultural books difficult.In the context of"rare",the agricultural booksof Tang Dynasty opened many paths for the development of Agronomy in later generations.