水上先民（家）与广东农业张寿祺（中山大学人类学系）在封建王朝的士大夫所留下的诗文中，谈及岭南水上先民，均说他们不懂农耕。南宋杨万里《户》一诗最为典型：“天公吩咐水生涯，从小教他蹈浪花，煮蟹当粮那识米，缉蕉为布不须纱。……”（据四部丛刊本《诚斋集》卷... Ancestors in Water and Guangdong Agriculture  Zhang Shouqi (Department of Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University) In poems by fellow doctors of the feudal dynasties, they talked about the ancestors of Lingnan Water who both said they did not understand farming. Southern Song Dynasty Yang Wanli “household” a poem is the most typical: “God told the water career, taught him to teach him a wave of childhood, cooking crabs when the grain that rice, banana for the cloth yarn.” (According to four series of books, "volume...