明代黄省曾在十六世纪上半叶完成的《稻品》,是我国第一部水稻品种资源的专著。黄省曾,字勉之,江苏吴县人,明代嘉靖年间(1522——1566)的举人,早年曾从王守仁、湛若水游学,后又向李梦阳学诗;毕生博览群书,通达古今,著有《五岳山人集》等,留有多种农学著作。编撰的《稻品》以及《蚕经》、《鱼经》、《艺菊书》,合称 The Yellow Rice Province in the Ming Dynasty, which was completed in the first half of the 16th century, is the monograph of China’s first rice variety resource. Huang Zengzeng, word Mianzhi, Jiangsu Wuxian people, the Ming Dynasty Jiajing years (1522--1566) of the lords, the early years of Wang Shouren, Zhan Ruoshui travel, and later to Li Mengyang poems; life Expo group of books, Tongda ancient and modern, with “Five Sacred Mountains set” and so on, leaving a variety of agronomy. Compiled “rice products” and “Silkworm”, “fish”, “Ju Ju book”, collectively