The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...

Ancient China was an agricultural society. The people felt great reverence for the land and grain and elevated these things to the status of gods. The people in the hope of obtaining a good ...

Millennia of agricultural tradition in ancient China, with farmers looking to the moon as a guide for when to sow and harvest crops, led to celebrations of the Lunar New Year. The holiday falls on ...

This indicates that ancient Chinese had mastered distillation ... at that time and enriching the study of the origin of Chinese agricultural civilization. This article was written in collaboration ...

A collaborative study has uncovered evidence of rice beer dating back approximately 10,000 years at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China ... of early rice agriculture and social structures.

However, the analysis also provided unique challenges, particularly in relation to the identification of ancient plant ... despite agriculture having been developed in China around 10,000 years ...