Women led the Agricultural Revolution

据考古学家报道，在今日山西碧村及陕西西安附近有多个新石器时代的农村。村民尊崇妇女，原因在于妇女是农耕先锋。男猎女釆，妇女成为野生食用植物的专家，继而试栽试种，造就人类的农业革命。神农氏当是蛾眉而非须眉。以农立国之功首推女性, 男权社会实有僭夺女神农氏后冠之嫌。

 

神农莫道是仙翁，百草娇尝第一功。

狩猎英雄奔化外，耕耘健妇定关中。

碧村长爱炊烟白，黄土乍惊桃陌红。

春抱梦来秧万畝，千秋金稻国香风。

（平水韵七律 ）

 

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Women led the Agricultural Revolution

 

The first Chinese farmers turned out to be women. Indeed, archeological findings indicate that women in the Neolithic (New Stone) Age did enjoy a high status in northern China. They were honored and even deified in the millet-farming villages around today's Xian.

 

While their men were occupied with hunting, Neolithic women were free to forage for edible plants. Individually or collectively, they got inspired and made a quantum leap to the groundbreaking idea of farming. Domesticating wild plants, they effectively moved their food sources incredibly close to their dwellings. Village life would soon settle in as a norm, followed by nation-building. 

 

Neolithic women brought about the Agricultural Revolution. Shennong is a goddess.

 

 

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