Fan Shengzhi shu


Fan Shengzhi shu was a Chinese agricultural text from the Han dynasty, written by Fan Shengzhi in the first century BC. The book was lost in the 11th- or 12th-century Song dynasty, possibly during the Jurchen invasion. Several fragments of the text have survived as quotations in other books including Qimin Yaoshu, , Yiwen Leiju, and Taiping Yulan.

Author

Fan Shengzhi was a Han dynasty official, possibly from Shandong, who served in the Guanzhong region first as court gentleman for consultation, then as agricultural development commissioner and commissioner of charioteers. The highest office he attained was that of censor-in-chief.

Table of contents

  1. "Ploughing"
  2. "Harvesting"
  3. "Irrigation"
  4. "Field usage"
  5. "Grain"
  6. "Millet"
  7. "Wheat"
  8. "Rice"
  9. "Barnyard grass"
  10. "Large beans"
  11. "Small beans"
  12. "Nettle-hemp"
  13. "Hemp"
  14. "Melons"
  15. "Gourds"
  16. "Taros"
  17. "Mulberries"
  18. "Miscellaneous"