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farm tool

Hey? (lě i) is an agricultural tool invented by Shennong in ancient China, which is used to turn over the soil and sow crops in agricultural production.

Explanation of words:

An ancient farm tool resembling a plow. It is used for digging. Ray is a curved wooden handle on the coffin. Also used as a general term for agricultural tools.

The meaning of ray:

With thunder, there is a real "agriculture", and there is farming and sowing agriculture. Yan Di tribes began to sow millet on a large scale and domesticated some wild plants as crops, such as millet, rice (wheat), barley, rice and hemp. Later generations collectively referred to these crops as "five grains" or "hundred grains", leaving many beautiful legends of "Shennong making five grains".

Related examples:

1. Shennong was overjoyed, so he collected the millet and took it to the tribe to teach the people how to plant it. He also invented tools, such as hoes and plows, and irrigation techniques connected with nine wells, which made farming very simple.

Lei is an ancient agricultural tool, and its hoe and wooden handle constitute a simple and effective tool for ploughing and loosening soil. In ancient farmland, farmers often wore work clothes, held hands, bathed in sweat and sunshine, worked hard and struggled for a bumper harvest, showing indomitable farming spirit.

3. This greatly encouraged Shanshi Lie, so he led the people to cut down trees and weeds, and according to the weather conditions, divided the land into wooden barriers and Lei Lei and other production tools, reclaimed the land and planted millet.

In ancient farming culture, thunder is a powerful tool for farmers, symbolizing the hope of hard work and bumper harvest. With thunder in their hands, farmers are reclaiming vast land. For the prosperity of their hometown and the bumper harvest of crops, they worked tirelessly, spreading their hopes on every inch of land and looking forward to the arrival of the harvest season.

In this fast-paced modern society, although the existence of thunder has been gradually forgotten, it is still an indispensable tool in farming civilization. Its appearance makes reclamation and farming more efficient, and it is also an inheritance and continuation of traditional farming culture.