Fan Shengzhi Shu(Fan Shengzhi Book) is a collective name of important agricultural masterpieces at the end of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-8AD). The author lived in the reign of Emperor Chengdi of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD). This book was compiled based on the agricultural experience and techniques in the Yellow River drainage area, containing the principles to cultivation, selection of planting time, methods to deal with seeds, methods to store, plant and reap specific seeds and the methods to distinguish seeds, etc. Among those, the methods to plant individual crops were written in great detail.

The crops recorded include thirteen kinds: gramineous crop, millet, wheat, rice, barnyard grass, soybeans, bean, Xi hemp, hemp, melon, Makino bottle gourd, dasheen and mulberry. The methods to distinguish seeds, also called the methods to distinguish fields, are also highlighted in the book. There are other methods written in details, such as seed washing, field cultivating, wheat planting, melon planting and mulberry engrafting, which are scientific.

In the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), Jia Sixie often quoted it in hisQi Min Yao Shu(Essential Techniques for the Peasantry). Many people collected and recompiled it in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).