Wooden Plow, Harrow, Sower, Sickle and Hoe

Wooden plows are drawn by oxen and used to turn over the soil, the plowshare and wall are made of iron, and the rest are made of wood. after the 1980s, most of the plains are plowed by machine, and a small amount of the mountainous areas are still in use.

The harrow is used to break up the soil after plowing, and it is rectangular in shape, with a wooden frame and iron teeth, and the harrow frame is equipped with more than 10 iron blades, so that the blades roll and cut up the mud pieces.

Sickle Commonly known as the cutter, crescent-shaped, the mouth of the knife with oblique serrations, the end of the wooden handle, used for harvesting rice and wheat. 50 years by the north of the Soviet Union, Shandong, the influence of the sickle, the knife body, the handle slightly longer, for today's harvesting common tools.

The hoe is used for loosening soil and cutting grass. Can be divided into split grass hoe, broad board hoe, open hoe.

Sowers are also called sow plows. According to the East Han Cui Shi "political theory" records, the columbarium plow is the Western Han Emperor Wu Di when the search for corn lieutenant Zhao over the invention of its use and efficacy is: "three plows * * * a cow, a person will be, under the seed to pull the columbarium, all take the preparedness of the day to plant a hectare." This kind of columbine plow is now still in use in the northern rural areas of the three-legged columbine. Sowers have one foot, two feet, three feet, and even four feet of several kinds, to two feet, three feet more common. Wang Zhen "book of agriculture - Lei 耜门" records, the specific structure of the two-foot columbarium: "two handles on the curved, three-foot high, two feet in the virtual, wide and a ridge, horizontal are four turns, the center of the columbarium bucket, which holds the seeds of the seeds under the foot through the hole. Still hold two yoke, can accommodate a cow, with a person to lead, evening a person in charge of columbine, and line and shake, the seed is from the next."