The history of mankind begins with the use of tools; With the use of tools, human beings officially broke away from the ranks of animals and walked out of the wilderness of ignorance. The history of agriculture began with the influence of farm tools on agricultural activities. Before agriculture began, human beings experienced nearly two million years of gathering and fishing. Although people can already use tools at this time, they can't be called farm tools. The natural ecology was purposefully processed by people before the emergence of agriculture, and the tools used for agricultural processing were agricultural tools. It can be seen that from tools to farm tools, human ancestors learned it after nearly 2 million years of hard exploration, and it is not easy to get farm tools. With farm tools, there is agriculture. Agriculture and farm tools were born in human society at the same time, and no one can do without their twin brothers.

The birth of agriculture and farm tools ended the human demand for society and began a new era of human contribution to society.

With the change of society, agricultural production has developed and farm tools have made corresponding progress; The progress of farm tools in turn promoted the development of agriculture. China has been founded by agriculture since ancient times, with a long history of agriculture. All walks of life have always developed with the development of agriculture. The development of agriculture is manifested in the development level of farm tools to some extent. The invention and development of farm tools led to the emergence and development of a series of scientific and technological departments and research scientific and technological departments. It can be said that the whole national economy and people's livelihood are directly or indirectly related to agriculture to varying degrees. Since the Stone Age, China has been a country based on agricultural production economy, and all social systems in past dynasties have been inextricably linked with agricultural development. Agricultural production tools promote the development of productive forces, but they will inevitably lead to new changes in economic conditions, and the development of economic conditions will inevitably lead to the evolution of social systems. This is a great promotion of agricultural production and the development of farm tools to the social system.

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China has been a big country based on agriculture since ancient times, with a history of agricultural civilization of more than 10,000 years. It is one of the few agricultural cradles in the world. China has a solid foundation of agricultural science and technology; China's agricultural culture is rich in connotation. The Yanhuang culture, which was born and developed in China, is at the same or similar level of development as the ancient Egyptian culture, ancient Greek culture, two rivers culture, ancient Indian culture and Maya culture, and only Yanhuang culture has evolved into Chinese culture without interruption. Of course, there are many reasons. The most fundamental reason is that Yanhuang culture has always been rooted in smokeless, green and huge agricultural culture (including farm tools culture), with rich and advanced scientific and technological content; It provides a strong material foundation for the formation and sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and provides the same mode of production, lifestyle and ideological and cultural choices for the great integration of people of all ethnic groups in China. China's agriculture has supported the largest nation in the world, created unparalleled economic achievements and taken an ecological road of sustainable development. This is the beauty and uniqueness of Chinese civilization, and it is also the foundation of new rural construction in China today.

In essence, farm tools are the products of human beings using and transforming nature in order to survive and constantly improve their living conditions, improve the appearance of agricultural production, mark the continuous development of agricultural productivity, and are the epitome of the continuous progress of human society from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom. Therefore, the farm tools contained in the production tools are a cultural carrier and cultural phenomenon, which is one of the important connotations of the whole ancient civilization. Since farm tools are man-made things, they contain human wisdom and technology and become an important part of human material civilization. The production, use and abandonment of farm tools also reflect people's ideas and branded human spiritual culture.

Agriculture is the source of all trade. Agriculture is an indispensable industry after human beings enter the farming era. Many other industries may disappear temporarily or permanently with the development of society, but agriculture will not. Agriculture not only existed in the past, but also exists now and will never be absent in the future. Farm tools are brothers and sisters of agriculture, and without agriculture, there would be no farm tools; Without farm tools, there would be no agriculture. Therefore, the historical process that mankind has gone through begins with the footsteps of agriculture; It keeps advancing in the footsteps of agriculture and all walks of life differentiated from agriculture. The occurrence and development of agriculture are closely related to the occurrence and development of agricultural tools. Therefore, to study the history of human development, it is necessary to study the history of agricultural tools.

The history of farm tools is an important content and part of national history. A national history without a history of farm tools is unthinkable. The history of farm tools reflects the great history of the Chinese nation from one side; It embodies the great quality and fine tradition of Chinese sons and daughters who have always been hardworking, brave, smart, creative and innovative. Studying the history of farm tools can not only inherit and carry forward these virtues, but also help to improve people's national self-esteem, self-confidence and patriotism, especially the younger generation. But also enables us to discover the scientific development law of agricultural machinery; We can learn from the development of agricultural machinery today, thus promoting the development of contemporary agricultural machinery and achieving more brilliant achievements.

Studying the history of agricultural tools in China is to restore the true colors of the development history of agricultural tools in China, so that people can treat history correctly. Correctly treat the history of traditional farm tools in China. Studying the development history of agricultural tools in China is to find out our experience and shortcomings from the footprint of historical progress; Find out the reasons and lessons of our changing from advanced to backward, and provide reference for the development of agricultural machinery in China in the future. The purpose of studying the development history of agricultural tools in China is to provide more abundant, accurate and authentic historical materials about the development of agricultural tools for the general history of China and related disciplines.

It is the historical responsibility of historical workers, including historians of agricultural tools, to reproduce the truth of history to the world.

To this end, we thought of a very important question, that is: should Chinese civilization be five thousand years or ten thousand years? Traditionally, the Chinese nation has a history of 5,000 years of civilization. It is said that this statement is mainly based on the invention of characters and the emergence of cities. This basis is really unreasonable.