What tools did the ancient people use to plow the fields, the

Changes in materials: stone, bone, wood - bronze - iron; changes in power: human power - animal power -natural force; changes in types: singularity - diversity;

The evolution of production tools mainly consists of Stone - > wood - -> bronze -> iron ------- to the present machine mass production

1. Windmill. Blow away the rice wheat grain straw shavings shriveled grain and other impurities tool. The upper side of the outlet of the impurities, and the lower side of the outlet of the grain.

2. Stone mill. Stone grinding dry powder, water paste tool. The lower disk is fixed, the upper disk rotates, the round hole of the upper disk to add raw materials, the lower disk around the dry powder, water paste.

3. Wooden plow. Agricultural tools for plowing. With animal power, manpower or machine traction. Because the main parts of wood, it is called wood plow or soil plow, as opposed to later iron double-share plow.

4. harrow. There are nail tooth harrow and disc harrow. Used to break up the soil, level the ground and eliminate weeds of the whole farm equipment.

5. Demoiselle and yoke. Demoiselle rain poncho made of bamboo leaves or grass, brown. The flail is an agricultural tool consisting of a long handle and a set of flat rows of bamboo or wooden strips used to beat the grain to make it fall off. Also used as a flail.

6. spinning wheel. Hand-cranked or foot-operated wheeled spinning or spinning tool. This picture shows a hand-cranked one.

7. Straw shoemaker. A tool for shoes prepared from rice straw or grass stems etc.

8. seed gin. Tool for ginning out cotton seeds.

9. pestle. A tool for pounding rice. By continuously stepping on the back end of the wooden bar with the foot, the stone at the front end falls together and pounds the rice grain in the stone mortar below (to make the grain into rice or to make the rice into flour). This picture shows a simple pestle. It is just a stone mortar with a pestle or mallet.

10. Waterwheel. A tool for lifting water from a low place to a high place by using a chain belt (bar) with a scraper or a water wheel with a drawbar. Usually by manpower, animal power, water power, wind power or electricity driven rotation. There are keel waterwheel, wind waterwheel, pipe chain waterwheel and so on. This picture is the keel waterwheel trough, scraper part. The keel waterwheel a kind of waterwheel by the trough, scraper, wooden chain, wooden gears and other components. It was gradually applied in 168-189 A.D. and has been handed down to the present day. Driven by manpower, animal power or wind power, it can continuously lift water, and the height of water lifting is generally 1-2 meters.

11. Fans and cages. The dan is a round bamboo vessel used for serving rice in ancient times. Bai Juyi "watching mowed wheat" poem "women and nuns load danzan food, children with pots and paddles". Cage is a bamboo utensil made of bamboo sheets to hold things.

12. oil basket and barrel. Oil basket is a device to hold things, made of bamboo or wattle and so on. Wooden barrel is a container of things, mostly round, most of them have a beam.

13. stone mortar and pestle. Stone mortar chiseled stone pounding grain and other things. Pounding mortar and pestle are about a meter long, thick at both ends in the middle of the handle is thin, each weighing about three kilograms. The action of pounding something in a stone mortar or bowl to remove the skin and shell or to crush and press rice flour is called pounding. It is a form of labor unique to the Li people.

14. threshing board. Farming tools for beating grain.

15. dustpan. With willow, bushes or bamboo gabion woven utensils. Can also be used as a dustpan. Sheng grain, etc. up and down, raise the chaff dust and other things of the apparatus