#What farm work did you do when you were a child# As a rural person, there were naturally a lot of farm work when you were a child. Planting seedlings, planting corn, watching cattle, cutting grass, beating pig grass, carrying manure, threshing corn... In short, the farm work has basically been done. It is said that at that time, the planting of seedlings in the mountains was artificial, if you inserted slowly, you would choose to insert the side or less, otherwise you would be surrounded by those who inserted fast and ulterior motives, and then the big guys would laugh and laugh to make you embarrassed. As for watching cattle, it is the favorite of the friends, because after the big guys drive the cattle to a vacant lot, they begin to play games such as skipping rope, losing bags, playing stone chess, etc., but also pay attention to not letting their own cattle steal other people's crops at any time, otherwise they will be scolded or even beaten if they are found, but sometimes they forget to have fun for a while, and eventually they will inevitably be scolded and beaten.
Since there were basically no small cultivators at that time, and every household relied on cattle to plough the fields, not only did they graze the cattle to graze, but they also had to go to the fields early or one night to cut the grass and go home to feed the cattle, and at the same time, they also cleaned their own fields by the way, so that the voles were less likely to waste the crops. Of course, because the big guys all feed the cattle, they basically cut their own fields and grasses, and if they quietly cut others, they will be scolded if they are discovered. Even if it is not discovered who it is, the host family may also scold in the field to vent their dissatisfaction.
Playing pig grass is supposed to be the work of the little girls, but if there is no girl in the family or the girl is still young, sometimes the boys can't and have to take the sickle and the back pocket and follow a group of girls uphill to fight the pig grass. However, due to the small number of pig grass hits, so there are not many pig grasses that I know, and many times when the big guys go home together, boys always fight less than girls. Therefore, in order not to be scolded by adults for not hitting less, they cheated on the bottom of the back pocket to put a few branches on the shelf, so that the pig grass that was dissatisfied with the back pocket was deliberately made into the illusion of the back pocket mouth or above. Of course, this is not nothing, the most embarrassing and depressing thing for boys is that there are some nasty adults in the village who see you a boy playing pig grass with a bunch of little girls, and they will joke and say, "Oh oh, you a boy with a bunch of little girls playing pig grass, your little chicken will fall, and then it will become a girl!" Of course, it was impossible, but slowly I still felt shy and unnatural, and gradually protested with adults, especially mothers, and stopped playing pig grass with girls.
As for manure, at that time, there was no basic ploughing road in the field, no three-wheeled motorcycles, tractors and other transport vehicles, there was no fertilizer, and the crops planted were basically farm manure, most of which were cow dung. Therefore, every household basically has the dung basket woven with bamboo strips, and the cow dung is grabbed and put in the dung basket with a three-tooth nail rake, and then manually carried to the field. Of course, the children can only bear less, otherwise if their own fields are far away from home, sometimes they will not be able to rest the fields several times, and they will also press the shoulders of this person to be hot and painful.
When it comes to threshing, the most feared is the big sun day and the glutinous valley, because the sun day is hot, and the rice mango that flies everywhere is very itchy, especially the glutinous valley rice mango, which is even more itchy, the more scratched and itchy, I can't wait to take a bath quickly. And the harvest of corn is the same, especially on the sun day, the corn leaves are also very cut, do not pay attention to it will be scratched, sweat because of the salty taste, flow to the wound will feel spicy pain...
Of course, the times are changing, with the rise of the upsurge of reform and opening up, once upon a time, rural people have gone out to work, coupled with the adjustment of the rural industrial structure, the rural farming families are rare, the rural agricultural work is gradually no longer done, and many agricultural work has slowly become an unforgettable memory.
