What's the difference between a plow and a rake?

Rake? (sound: lí? Pá) They are all farm tools.

Ploughs open the ground, rakes break the ground and there are many nails.

"rake" has two pronunciations, bà and pá.

"Rake" bà: agricultural tools used to break and flatten clods: spikes ~, disks ~; Rake up the clods with a rake: the ground has collapsed.

2. "Rake": a tool for collecting grain or leveling land. ; Leveling the land with a rake or collecting and distributing firewood, grain, etc. : ~ ground.

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Examples of traditional farm tools

Cultivated land consolidation tool

Cultivated land preparation tools are used for ploughing, breaking ground, leveling fields and other operations. It has experienced the development process from Lei to animal-drawn plough. In the Han Dynasty, animal-drawn plows became the most important agricultural tools. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, plows, rakes and plows were used in northern China to support dryland farming. In the Song Dynasty, the paddy field farming system of plough, harrow and furrow was formed in the south.

Paddy field soil preparation tools mainly include ploughing, harrowing and ploughing. This farming system was formed in the Song Dynasty. Rakes were invented in the Jin Dynasty to break clods and mix mud after ploughing. Paddy fields, paddy fields and other paddy field soil preparation tools appeared in the Song Dynasty, which were used to mix mud. Seedling horse, which appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, is a special tool for pulling out rice seedlings.

Irrigation tools

In Shang dynasty, oranges were invented; At the beginning of the week, a hoist was used; The Han Dynasty created and manufactured human rollover; Tube cars appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The pipe truck is simple in structure and driven by running water, and it is still used in the southern hilly area with abundant water resources.

Harvesting tool

Harvesting tools include harvesting, threshing and cleaning tools. Harvesting tools include folding knives for harvesting ears, sickles for harvesting stems, and short shovels. Rice barrel is the main threshing tool in the south, and unicycle is the main threshing tool in the north. The flail, a threshing tool, appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is very common in the north and south of China. Cleaning tools include dustpan, wooden shovel and fan car, and the use of fan car has been ahead of the west for nearly a thousand years.

Machining tool

Processing tools include grain processing tools and cotton processing tools. Grain processing tools developed from ancient Chu Jiu and stone mills. In the Han Dynasty, Chu Jiu's changing forms appeared, and the stone mill was improved into grinding and polishing. Grinding appeared in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In Yuan Dynasty, cotton became an important textile raw material in China, and cotton processing tools such as cotton agitator, spinning wheel, slingshot and cotton textile machine were gradually invented.