Based on previous, this article tries doing a systematic analysis of Sung vegetables and vegetable industry. There were about forty to fifty different types of vegetables in Sung, The whole vegetable category was similar to contemporary, and cultivati...
Based on previous, this article tries doing a systematic analysis of Sung vegetables and vegetable industry. There were about forty to fifty different types of vegetables in Sung, The whole vegetable category was similar to contemporary, and cultivation, storage technology was mature. The Sungs recognized that vegetables of different varieties have different sowing season, different varieties of vegetables and loose soil tilth required different degrees. In dishes with cultivation methods, all regions have geographical differences in
common. There is a growing vegetables in the water garden of turnip in South, which popularized in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Sichuan. North was also about governance intensive vegetable bed. The Sungs mastered a seed treatment, germination, seed and nursery technology, in particular, pregermination way the use of incubation,
the use of sulfur and other minerals to increase vegetable production, to improve quality and sealed storage of vegetables. People exclaimed their sophisticated skills. Along with the improvement of productivity, urbanization, by the former generation of self sufficiency, Sung’s Vegetable industry was tended to specialization and commercialization. Both the southern border areas or rural and urban, there were extensive gardens and vegetable production base. Vegetables should be on consumer demand in the city, the out skirts of the city was the emergence of specialized vegetable production base. Because of the relations of production of
vegetables, people's livelihood, huge demand, Lucrative, low risk, it attracted all classes. In addition to the vegetable gardens of the ordinary farmers and citizens, there were vegetable gardens owed officials, government run and operated by the monastery, which had amazing size. At the same time, Sung government was also aware of the profit, gradually strengthened the management and revenue of vegetable industry.