Principales populo favendi artes

Principales populo favendi artes, litteris Sinicis 齊民要術, pinyin Qímín yàoshù, est opus de re rustica Sinice anno fere 544 scriptum, auctore Jia Sixie. De agri et horti necnon arborum cultura, sericultura, animalium cura, medicina veterinaria, arte braxatoria et culinaria victualiumque conservatione disseritur. Scripta anteriora maiori parte deperdita citantur inter quae Fan Shengzhi shu et Simin yueling. Opus in decem libros, duos et nonaginta capitula divisum est, quorum index hic habes:

• Lib. 1 cap. 1: terram collucare et laborare
  • cap. 2: semina cerealia colligere
  • cap. 3: Setariam italicam colere
• Lib. 2 cap. 4-16: alia frumenta colere
• Lib. 3 cap. 17-29: holera et legumina colere
  • cap. 30: calendarium rusticum
• Lib. 4 cap. 31: saepem serere
  • cap. 32: arbores transplantare
  • cap. 33-44: arbores fructiferae, Zanthoxylum bungeanum
• Lib. 5 cap. 45: Morus alba, sericultura
  • cap. 45-51: arbores ligniferae, Bambusa
  • cap. 52-54: plantae tinctoriae
  • cap. 55: arbores caedere
• Lib. 6 cap. 56-61: animalia, aves, pisces elevare
• Lib. 7 cap. 62: commercium
  • cap. 63-67: ars braxatoria
• Lib. 8 cap. 68-79: ars culinaria: liquamen e soia, acetum, conditura carnium
• Lib. 9 cap. 80-89: ars culinaria: carnes, pulmenta, bellaria, etc.
  • cap. 90-91: confectio glutini, atramenti, penicillorum etc.
• Lib. 10 cap. 92: plantae exoticae

Bibliographia

• Francesca Bray, Science and Civilisation in China vol 6 fasc. 2: Agriculture (Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 1984) pp. 55-60 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
• H. T. Huang, Science and Civilisation in China vol 6 fasc. 5: Fermentation and Food Science (Cantabrigiae: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 123-124
• Amano Motonosuke, "Dry Farming and the Chi-min yao-shu" in Silver Jubilee Volume of the Zinbun-Kagaku-Kenkyusyo (1954) pp. 451-466
• Françoise Sabban, "Insights into the problem of preservation by fermentation in 6th century China" in Astrid Riddervold, Andreas Ropeid, edd., Food conservation (Londinii: Prospect Books, 1988) pp. 45-55
• Françoise Sabban, ""Suivre les temps du ciel": économie ménagère et gestion du temps dans la Chine ancienne" in Maurice Aymard et al., edd., Le temps de manger. Alimentation, emploi du temps et rythmes sociaux (Lutetiae: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l 'Homme, 1993) pp. 67-80
• Shih Sheng-han, A Preliminary Survey of the Book Ch'i Min Yao Shu: an agricultural encyclopedia of the 6th century. 2a ed. 1962

Nexus interni

• Libri de re rustica antiqui

Nexus externi

• "Qimin yaoshu" apud ChinaKnowledge
• Textus apud Vicifontem Sinicum