The function of wooden plow, rake, rake, sickle and hoe

hoes are used for large-scale shallow excavation, such as loosening soil and turning over seeds.

Sickle is an agricultural tool for harvesting crops and mowing grass in rural areas, which is generally used to harvest rice.

polonium is an ancient agricultural tool for sowing. It is pulled by livestock and supported by someone behind it. It can complete ditching and planting at the same time.

a rake is an agricultural tool for gathering or scattering grain, firewood or leveling the land.

The wooden plow is pulled by cattle to turn over the soil, and is used for farming in farmland or dry land.

Extended information

I. Types of wooden plows

Generally, wooden plows are divided into two types: dry plows and water plows. The common name of dry plows is "arrow plows", which are thick and firm and have a component in the shape of an arrow, hence the name; The structure of the water plow is simple and light, and it is commonly called "single plow".

second, the Chinese character interpretation of harrow

harrow bà, pá. The word from Lei, from Ba, Ba also sounds. "Ba" means "attachment", "adhesion" and "prostration".

"Lei" refers to "farm tools". "Lei" and "Ba" are combined to mean "an agricultural tool for spreading broken soil, compost and weeds and attaching them to the surface of farmland (read bà)" and "an agricultural tool for ripping up the pile of grain and firewood and attaching them to the ground of grain drying field (read pá)".

Original meaning: A farm tool that peels away the deposits of farmers and makes them uniformly adhere to the surface of an open field.

Third, the significance of polonium

Similar farm tools were invented by Jethro Tull in 1731 in Britain, which is regarded as one of the symbols of the European agricultural revolution. More importantly, the principle of the car-smashing inspired many subsequent similar inventions and opened up a road for agricultural mechanization.

Four types of sickles

Narrow-fan sickles, Wide-fan sickles, Moon-bud sickles and Small sickles

Five historical developments of hoes

Our ancestors had already invented hoes made of stone for planting crops. After the Han Dynasty, because stone hoes made of stone were not durable, Han people changed them into iron hoes.

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