齐民要术

Traditional form:

齊民要術

Pinyin (reading):

Qímín Yàoshù

Definitions:

• Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰／贾思勰 ( Jiǎ Sīxié)

Characters:

• 齐 - even, uniform, of equal length
• 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
• 要 - essential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to demand
• 术 - skill, art; method, technique; trick

Traditional characters:

• 齊 - even, uniform, of equal length
• 民 - citizens, subjects; a nation's people
• 要 - essential, necessary; to ask for; to coerce; to demand
• 術 - skill, art; method, technique; trick