张履祥与太湖地区农业知识的传播

张履祥农业知识传播与交流的典型耕读士人，他农业知识的来源以及自己农业知识的外传，进一步说明以他为代表的太湖地区底层士人对农业知识传播的贡献。张履祥和其生活范围内人士通过书信等方式的交流，通过这个过程把农业知识介绍给他人。这里介绍了张履祥获得农业知识的方式，包括书籍、实践、老农、家传等途径不断积累自己的农业知识。其次说明了张履祥通过血缘、地缘、结社交游、门人训导的方式将自己总结的农业知识传播出去。这个过程正是一种典型的农业知识传播方式，身为士人的张履祥是农业知识传播的纽带。

Zhang Lvxiang and the Dissemination of Agricultural Knowledge in Taihu Lake Region

Zhang Lvxiang was a typical intellectual of agricultural knowledge dissemination and exchange. From the source of his agricultural knowledge and its dissemination, people can find the contribution of agricultural knowledge made by the grassroots in Taihu Lake re- gion represented by Zhang Lvxiang. Zhang Lvxiang and other intellectuals introduced agricul- tural knowledge to others through the exchange of correspondence, etc. Methods of their at- taining knowledge included books, practice, visiting old farmers and inheriting from their own families; channels of dissemination of knowledge included relations of blood, geogra- phy, association, friends, disciples and teaching. This process is a typical mode of trans- mission of agricultural knowledge and Zhang Lvxiang as an intellectual was the bond of spreading agricultural knowledge.