Chinese Traditional Fishing Culture

The book "Traditional Chinese Fishing Culture" mainly consists of five chapters: "Tracing the History of Fishing and Cultural Evolution", "Historical Development of Fishing Equipment", "Fishing and Royal Ways", "Fishing and Officials", and "Fishing and Poetic Dwelling". The purpose is to summarize and sort out the technical details of ancient Chinese fishing from traditional literature, and strive to clearly present the "gain" of fishing techniques; at the same time, it also hopes to enter the mental world of the ancients through the relevant information about ancient fishing, and deeply explain their complex mentality and cultural inertia towards fishing. In the manuscript, issues related to traditional Chinese fishing culture are developed and elaborated, mainly by excavating and combining relevant information in ancient literature, history, painting, and archaeological documents, sorting out the development history of hooks, baits, fishing wheels and other utensils related to Chinese fishing sports, as well as the evolution history of fishing techniques, fishing channels and other technologies, and examining China. The historical origin, philosophical connotation and cultural value of fishing are discussed, and its important connection with the way of governing the country by ancient kings and the pursuit of officials by intellectuals is summarized, thereby summarizing its life significance to the poetic dwelling of ancient intellectuals, and exploring its reference significance for inheriting and carrying forward traditional fishing culture in the future.