人们谈到瑶族落后的生产方式时,往往都称之为「刀耕火种」。唐代诗人刘禹锡,唐元和十年(815)贬为连州刺史,曾作《莫瑶歌》,有「星居占泉眼,火种开山脊」的著名诗句。山脊,指向阳的不太陡的半山腰。火种,是刀耕火种。刘诗反映了居住在高山上的连州瑶胞的生活和耕山锄岭的生产情况。 When people talk about the backward mode of production of the Yao people, they often call it “slash-and-burn”. The Tang poets Liu Yuxi, Tang Yuan and Decade (815) were relegated to Lianzhou Cishi, and they were used as “Mo Yao Song”. They are famous poets of “stars occupy springs and fires open ridges”. Ridge, pointing to the sun is not too steep half hillside. Fire, slash and burn. Liu’s poems reflect the living conditions of Lianzhou Yao people living in the mountains and the production of farming hoes.