Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (6.1988/1991)

THE CHINESE PLOUGH

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GENERAL CHRONOLOGY / ALLGEMEINE CHRONOLOGIE

Hemudu Culture c. 5000-4000 BC
Yang Shao Culture c. 4000-3000 BC
Long Shan Culture c. 2000 BC
Shang Dyn. 1600-1100 BC (Yin) (Schang)
Feudal Age Western Zhou Dyn. 1100-770 BC
Feudal Age Eastern Zhou Dyn. 700-221 BC
(Tschou)
Spring and Autumn Period 770-476 BC
Warring Kingdoms 475-221 BC
Qin Dyn. 220-207 BC (Tsin)
Han Dyn. 206 BC-220 AD
Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Wei Dyn. 220-265 AD

Jin Dyn. 265-420 AD
Southern and Northern Dynasties 420-589
AD
Northern Wei 386-535 AD
Northern Zhou 557-581 AD
Sui Dyn. 581-618 AD (Sui)
Tang Dyn. 618-907 AD
Wu Tai (Five Dyn. Period) 907-960 AD (fiinf
Dyn.)
Song Dyn. 960-1279 AD (Sung)
Yuan (Mongol) Dyn. 1260-1368 AD (Jiien)
Ming Dyn. 1368-1644 AD
Qing Dyn. 1644-1911 AD (Tsing)

REVIEW

BODEMCULTUR: De geschiedenis van het
ploegen. ed. Gerard Rooijakkers met bijdra-
gen van dr. Peter Meurkens en dr. Herman
Crompvoets. Limburgs Volkskundig Mu-
seum 1987. 147 p, 95 ill. 3 maps.
This pricely produced publication was
made in connection with an exhibition of ag-
ricultural tools and implements in the Lim-
burg Museum of »Volkskunde« in the old
castle 1986.
After a general introduction it contains a
main chapter on ploughing implements and
their functions, a short chapter on folklore
connected with these tools and a comprehen-
sive chapter on the sources as well as notes
and bibliography. In addition there is a cata-

logue of the exhibition. Although the book is
in Dutch everybody may benefit of its re-
ference to a great variety of implements, illu-
strations and written sources, especially con-
cerning the agricultural equipment of the lo-
wer Rhine-Valley from Mainz to the South-
Eastern part of the Low Countries.
Moreover in the periodical on Limburg lo-
cal history LIMBURG, Neerlands Volksle-
ven, vol. XXI No. 1 (Wassenaar 1971) pp. 97-
113. J. M. G. van der Poel has written a paper
on the Mecklenburger Haken’s introduction
to the Netherlands and the Rheinland
»Honsploeg« (illustrated).
Axel Steensberg