中国古代的嫁接技艺

通过对中国古籍的考察, 发现中国古代嫁接技法的产生可能是受到自然界中连理枝 现象的启发。嫁接技法应用到生产中的年代不晚于西汉(前206 -公元25);古人主要将嫁接技法应用在缩短生产周期, 保持物种特异性状和扩大繁殖系数上;古人在生产实践中总结出嫁接四法 和六法 , 发现砧木和接穗的选择、嫁接时间和嫁接技巧等因素影响着嫁接成活率, 提出气 和液 的概念来解释嫁接成活机理, 并在总结大量远缘嫁接实践的基础上, 提出亲缘关系较近的植物嫁接容易成活的观点。参18

Grafting in ancient China

Through investigations into a portion of Chinese ancient books , it was discovered that the emergence of Chinese ancient grafting was enlightened by the phenomenon of two branches of different trees twined together in nature .Before the WesternHan Dynasty (206 BC -25 AD), grafting was had been applied in production .Ancient people used it to shorten productive cycle , keep special character of species and expand reproduce coefficient . Ancient people also summarized four methods and six methods from grafting practice , and discovered many factors impacting on the survival rate of grafting such as selection of scion and stock , grafting time and grafting technique .The ancients put forward the conception of gas and liquid to explain the survival principle , and posed the view that plants with close relation applied in grafting are easy to survive on the base of summarizing a great deal of grafting practise .[ Ch , 18 ref .]