There are many kinds of traditional Chinese agricultural tools, and the replacement is also quite frequent, and many agricultural tools that were once popular to every household have disappeared in the long river of history with the changes of the times.
China is a traditional agricultural country with a long history, in the land of China, there were primitive human activities 1.7 million years ago, and 10,000 to 4,000 years ago, that is, the historical Neolithic Age, the ancestors who lived on this land pioneered agriculture.
Since mankind began the era of farming, agricultural tools are naturally indispensable, and in the era of low productivity, what were our ancestors using to cultivate?
This thing, which many people have seen, is also one of our common ancient agricultural tools. The reason why it is common is not that modern agriculture is still in use, but that we can understand this agricultural tool through "Dayu Zhishui".
In some ancient murals and illustrations, modern sculptures, reliefs on the Dayu Zhishui, you can see that Dayu is holding a tool in his hand, and that thing is called 耒耜.
According to legend, it is a farming tool invented by Shennong and used to turn the land and sow crops in agricultural production. The plough is developed from the silk.
The stalk is the handle, and the stalk is the soil-raising part of the lower end of the sycamore. It is a pointed wooden stick with a short section of beam. Insert the tip into the soil when using, then step on the beam with your foot to make the stick go deeper and then turn it over.
In ancient poetry, Qi Qi is also a frequent visitor.
Liu Zongyuan's "Three Songs of the Tian Family": Zaza's voice, flying to the black kite.
Wang Anshi's "Fifteen Poems of Hesheng Yu Farm Tools": Qi Qi sees Yi, and the saint takes the wind and thunder.
Lu Qiao, also known as "Lu Shaft", is a kind of animal power agricultural tool used to crush. The overall is similar to a cylinder, slightly larger in the middle and slightly smaller at both ends, which is suitable for rotating around a center. It is used to roll grain (usually with stone milling as a chassis), to level the ground, etc. Until recent decades, the rural areas of Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other provinces have been used in large quantities.
Older people should have used it before. However, the name of this thing varies from place to place, some are called lv zhuai, and some are called lu zhi, lu chi, lù dú.
Fan Chengda's "Four Hours pastoral miscellaneous": Tie the cattle to the road in front of the door, and move the west side of the door.
Yao Xie's "Zhao Wen Yu Xi Beckons Drinking Table": Twilight smoke is empty and the sea and mountains are cool, and the late rice is new in the Tun Lu Gang Farm.
These are two kinds of agricultural tools, Qianjiǎn as a farm tool, which is the original meaning of money (is not very unexpected), referring to agricultural tools similar to shovels.
The bó was also a common agricultural tool in ancient times, similar to the current hoe.
Look at the picture, this is the ancient cloth coin, look at the shape like something like a shovel or something? Therefore, it is also called shovel coins, and the coins are agricultural tools, and they have a strong correlation with the coins of various countries in the Warring States period.
Le Leifa "Six Songs of Yong Shi , Chen Sheng Wu Guang": False name stealing is only pitiful, throwing money and hammering in vain.
Mei Yaochen's "Fifteen Pieces of Farm Implements and Six Money Hammers of Sun Duansu Temple": The poem is called 庤錢鎛, and the south mu is xing farming.
Field leaks are the timekeeping tools of ancient farmers. Its main role is to timekeep, there were no clocks and watches in ancient times, when to work and when to work, there must be something to time.
More leaks are folk tools for night timekeeping, and field leaks are tools dedicated to farmer timing. The main principle is that according to the uniform flow of water, the time of flow from one scale to another in the container is fixed, so it can be used to time.
The shackles are fitted with a row of strips of wood or bamboo on a long wooden handle, which can be used to beat the grain and cause the grains to fall.
It was invented by the ancient Qi people (Shandong Peninsula) and has been used for more than ten centuries, which can be regarded as a very vital agricultural tool.
Pestles and mortars are also two different agricultural tools, but they are separate but used together. The scoop is the container for pounding grain to be shelled or crushed, and the pestle is the tool for pounding grain.
Zhang Bi's "Taibai Old Man": Spring Spring surrounds the hut on all sides, and the sound of pestles is heard every day.
There are many more ancient agricultural tools.
Polonium: The earliest appearance of the Shang Dynasty, pickaxe-like earth planing tools, the Spring and Autumn Warring States period more.
Bamboo: Turning over the soil agricultural tools, also known as "bamboo climbing" appeared in the Western Han Dynasty.
銍: Turning soil agricultural tools, first seen in the Warring States.
Shovel: Digging tools, later shovels. No cultural relics were unearthed, about the time in the Spring and Autumn Warring States.
Zizi: Ploughing agricultural tools, first seen in the Warring States.
耨: Agricultural tools for hoeing grass, first seen in the Qin Dynasty.
Orange mallet: The original inoue water extraction tool, used in the Spring and Autumn period.