What production tools were there in ancient times?

1. windmill. Tools to blow away impurities, such as grass clippings and withered rice and wheat grains. Impurities are discharged from the upper outlet facing one side, and grains are discharged from the lower outlet facing downward.

2. Stone mill. Stone tools for grinding dry powder and water slurry. The lower plate is fixed, the upper plate rotates, raw materials are added into the circular hole of the upper plate, and dry powder and water paste are produced around the lower plate.

3. wooden plow. Farm tools for cultivated land. Animal, human or mechanical traction. Because the main component is wood, it is called wooden plow or soil plow, which is different from the later iron double-share plow.

4. Rake. There are nail harrows and disc harrows. A farm tool used for breaking soil, leveling land and weeding.

5. Hemp fiber and flail. A brown poncho made of bamboo leaves or grass. Flail is an agricultural tool, which consists of a long handle and a set of parallel bamboo or wood strips. It is used to beat the grain and make the seeds fall. Also known as flail.

6. spinning wheel. A wheeled rotating or spinning tool with hands or feet. This picture is operated manually.

7. Straw shoes. Shoe-making tools made of rice straw or straw.

8. Seed roller. A tool for rolling cotton seeds.

9. hey. Tools for mashing rice. Step on the back end of the stick with your feet continuously, and the stones at the front end will fall together, smashing the rice in the mortar below (making grain into rice or making rice into powder). This picture is very simple. It's just a stone mortar with a pestle or mallet.

10. Water wheel. A water lifting tool that lifts water from a low place to a high place with a chain belt (strip) with a scraper or a water wheel with a bucket. Usually driven by people, animals, water, wind or electricity. There are keel waterwheels, wind waterwheels, pipe chain waterwheels, etc. This picture shows the groove and scraper of keel waterwheel. The keel waterwheel is a waterwheel consisting of a sink, a scraper, a wooden chain and a wooden gear. It has been gradually applied in 168- 189, and has been passed down to this day. Driven by manpower, animal power or wind power, it can continuously lift water, and the height of lifting water is generally1~ 2m.

1 1. Scroll and cage. Basket is a round bamboo utensil, which was used to hold rice in ancient times. Bai Juyi's poem "Looking at Wheat Cutting" says: "Mother-in-law pays for food, and the child bears the kettle paddle". Cages are containers made of bamboo pieces.

Oil baskets and barrels. The oil basket is a container made of bamboo or Vitex negundo. Wooden barrels are utensils for holding things, mostly round and with beams.

13. Stone mortar and pestle. A device for mashing rice, grain, etc. Cut with stones. The rice pestle is about one meter long, with thick ends and thin middle handle, each weighing about three kilograms. The act of mashing shells or rice noodles by putting things into a stone mortar or bowl is called mashing. This is a unique way of working for Li people.

14. Threshing plate. Agricultural tools for threshing millet.

15. dustpan. Containers made of wicker, cattail or bamboo strips. It can also be used as a dustpan. A device for fixing grains up and down and separating chaff, chaff, dust, etc.