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Agricultural proverbs have been circulating for quite a long time and are recorded in many ancient books. For example, there are some well-known agricultural proverbs such as "Plant rice for half a year", "Water the buds of wheat and water the flowers of vegetables", "When the roots are white in summer, farmers eat for an hour" and "The rice is as red as an oriole, just need water supply", which are included in the Shen Shi Agricultural Book in the late Ming Dynasty: "An inch of wheat is not afraid of water, and an inch of wheat is afraid of water". "Don't plant wheat without ash" and "Harvest wheat like putting out a fire" can be found in1Convenient Drawing at the beginning of the 6th century. "It's not hot in June, and the grains don't bear fruit", "Cover the quilt in June, and there is no rice in the field" and so on. , all found in Tianjia Wuxing1at the beginning of the 4th century; "If you want wheat, you can see three whites" and "The first month is three whites, and God smiles brilliantly", which was found in the book The Prince of the Tang Dynasty in the early 8th century. "If you want to know the five grains, you can see five trees" and "It is better to plow without pains than to be violent". See Qi Yaomin's Book in the 6th century. Agricultural proverbs quoted in ancient books are often referred to as "proverbs cloud" or "ancients cloud", indicating that the agricultural proverbs cited originated earlier and when they existed may not always be found in the literature. At least as far as we know, some agricultural proverbs can be traced back thousands of years, such as the Zhejiang agricultural proverb: "There is no abundant grass under the big tree, and there is no beautiful seedling between the big blocks", which was also seen in the Western Han Dynasty (Huan Kuan's salt and iron theory in BC 1 century): "There is no abundant grass under the Maolin, and there is no beautiful seedling between the big blocks." "The shower doesn't stop all day, and the hurricane doesn't stop" is similar to "The wind doesn't stop all day, and the shower doesn't stop all day" in Chapter 23 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Because the origin of agricultural proverbs can be traced back continuously, we have reason to think that the origin of agricultural proverbs is consistent with the origin of agriculture. The origin of agriculture is much earlier than written records, so the origin of agricultural proverbs must be before there are words. If music, dance and ballads all originate from labor, then agricultural proverbs are indeed an important branch of agricultural labor that is different from ballads. The difference between folk songs and agricultural proverbs is that the former confides in the thoughts and feelings of working people, that is, focuses on social relations; Agricultural proverbs, on the other hand, describe the struggle between working people and nature, that is, production is the center. This distinction is the result of gradual development. In fact, there is no clear boundary between them. Because agricultural proverbs can also include the experience of "standing in the world" outside agricultural production, in addition, agricultural proverbs can also include the experience of "standing in the world" outside agricultural production. Moreover, agricultural proverbs are harmonious in melody, rhyme, form and life, so it is difficult to completely break away from folk songs. This is especially true in ancient agricultural society. For example, July, Futian, Datian and Courtiers in The Book of Songs not only praise farming operations, but also express farmers' feelings. With the development of agricultural production, agricultural proverbs gradually split from ballads. At the same time, agricultural proverbs, which belong to pure production experience, are constantly increasing and enriching, and become an important part of guiding production.

[Edit this paragraph] Second, the role of agricultural proverbs in production

Agricultural proverbs are the crystallization of the experience accumulated by working people in long-term production practice, which will certainly play a guiding role in agricultural production. Especially in feudal society, working people were deprived of the right to read and write, and their experience mainly depended on "