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In the form of a "popular science picture book", this set of books introduces in detail ancient China's achievements in scientific discoveries, technological inventions, and engineering constructions. If the "Four Great Inventions" in the first volume gave a relatively independent and detailed introduction to a technological invention, the second volume introduces the achievements of ancient China in a technical field in a comprehensive and systematic manner. These include farming, textile, porcelain and construction techniques.
This book describes how ancient Chinese made world-renowned achievements through continuous development and exploration on the basis of primitive agriculture. From eating raw animal flesh and drinking blood to slash-and-burn cultivation, the rise of primitive agriculture drove the development of Chinese civilization. As a country steeped in agricultural tradition, China has made outstanding achievements in farming technology, farming tools, irrigation projects, crop cultivation, livestock domestication and other areas. In particular, farming methods such as suppressing weeds with fire and water, digging ditches to drain or water farmland, building embankments in low-set areas and terraced fields on hillsides, and following the changing seasons to farm, all these demonstrated an ecological thinking in agriculture. The scientific and creative inventions of bronze farm tools, cattle-driven iron equipment, and hydraulic devices like keel water wheel and water scoop have greatly improved agricultural productivity.

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