Answer: Agriculturalism (農家/农家; Nongjia) was an early agrarian social and political philosophy in ancient China that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism. The philosophy is founded on the notion that human society originates with the development of agriculture, and societies are based upon "people's natural propensity to farm."
An Agrarian society, or agricultural society, relied on its production and maintenance of crops and farmland for its economy; which is why they thrived around bodies of water, which kept the land fertile and was good for farming.
