The Spread and Regional Development of Wheat Farming in the Yellow River Valley under the Han Empire

We synthesize recent archaeological discoveries on the spread of Han wheat farming, including archaeobotanical evidence, artefacts related to farming and flour processing, discovered texts such as wooden slips. cross-examine data with transmitted historical records within wider social cultural contexts Yellow River valley adjacent regions. conclude that in Middle region was slower than Lower due environmental reasons. After Emperor Wu's era, began take off both regions, which characterized by its expanding geographic distributions, increasing importance imperial agricultural economies growing recognition society. The beneficial factors, favorable climate-environmental conditions, accumulating agronomic knowledge, technological innovations other changing dietary traditions played diverse roles regional development these