距今六七千年前的先人在各种陶器上刻画植物图案,是我国最早的有关植物的记载。后随着甲骨文字的出现,先人应用创造象形文字表征植物,并产生了植物“按形分类”的分类思想雏形。自西周讫秦朝前夕,由于生产力的发展,古人对植物的认识不断深化,因而出现了涉及植物品种、形态特征、生态环境及利用方法的记述。尽管先秦植物文献杂散零乱,作为中国古典植物学的萌芽为汉魏六朝中国古典植物学的形成奠定了基础,尽管如此又不得不承认它往往只是一种“附庸”,或传情达意,或串堂作证。 Ancestors six or seven thousand years ago in a variety of pottery depicting plant patterns, is China’s earliest records of plants. With the advent of Oracle characters, ancestors used hieroglyphs to represent plants and created prototypes of plants that were classified by shape. Since the Western Qin Dynasty, on the eve of the Qin dynasty, because of the development of productive forces, the ancients’ understanding of plants has been deepening. Therefore, there have been reports of plant varieties, morphological characteristics, ecological environment and utilization methods. Although the pre-Qin plant literature sporadic confusion, as the germination of Chinese classical botany for the Han and Wei dynasties in China formed the basis of the formation of classical Chinese botany, nevertheless have to admit that it is often only a “vassal,” or teaser, or string Church testified.