How did using metal help ancient Chinese people increase food production? It led to wet farming for rice. It led to planting crops in rows. It led to stronger plows for tilling.
How they grew food: Rice and millet were the two main crops grown in Ancient China. Rice paddy (field) flooded from river. Rice needs a lot of water, so the Chinese figured out how to flood the fields from rivers to make rice paddies (fields for growing rice).
How did the Chinese improve farming?: By the Tang dynasty (618–907), China had become a unified feudal agricultural society again. Improvements in farming machinery during this era included the moldboard plow and watermill. Later during the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), cotton planting and weaving technology were extensively adopted and improved.
