Land is the mother of mankind, and agriculture is the cradle of civilization. In China, agriculture has carried the dreams of millions of people and remained prosperous and blooming in the nation’s five-thousand-year history. Its achievements in farm tools, production methods, water engineering, agriculture policies, and international communication have contributed a splendid chapter to the book of world civilizations.
An Insight into Chinese Agricultural Civilization is an online video course which will start a tour into the past, talking with legendary figures, walking through the farm fields, marveling at those splendid water engineering projects and seeing how the East and the West were connected by agricultural exchanges in ancient times. Through this online English course, learners will increase their knowledge about China’s agricultural civilization and moreover about the long history of Chinese civilization.
