Integrating skills Farming and gardening1 warming- up1 What season do you think the 1st picture is
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Jia Sixie was a great agricultural scientist of ancient China, living in Northern Wei Dynasty
He wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu2 Pre-reading1
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What do you know about Jia Sixie
Qimin Yaoshu During the third and fourth decades of the sixth century, Jia Sixie wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu, in English translated as The Manual of Important Arts for the People
The book has chapters on wine-making, recipes for cooking and instructions on farming and gardening
For many centuries it was considered an important summary of the knowledge about agriculture
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Why do we consider Jia Sixie as an agr