Name of Agricultural Tools

Tools used in agricultural production, mostly non-mechanized, also known as agricultural tools, agricultural production tools.

2. Agricultural tools are the implements used by farmers to change the object of labor in the process of agricultural production.

Agriculture is a production sector in which people utilize the life functions of plant and animal bodies to transform the material and energy of nature into products for human needs. At this stage, agriculture is divided into two main categories: plant cultivation (farming, planting) and animal rearing (breeding).

Traditional farming tools is a general term for agricultural production tools invented and inherited throughout history. Traditional agricultural tools are characterized by local materials, lightweight and handy, multi-purpose and wide applicability.

China has a long history of agriculture, a vast area, a large number of ethnic groups, agricultural tools are rich and colorful. In terms of each region, different environments, accordingly different agricultural production, the use of agricultural tools and have their own scope of application and limitations. Throughout the ages, agricultural tools have been constantly innovated and transformed, contributing to the progress of human civilization. Ancient legend has it that the first agricultural tool to appear was Lei?ê. There is a clear documentary record of the sowing of agricultural tools is the Western Han's columbarium plow, the columbarium plow by the animal traction, the back of someone holding, can be completed at the same time to open the furrow and the seed two work.

This entry only briefly describes the seven generalized categories of agricultural tools used in farming in China. More agricultural tools need to be classified by you to summarize (such as: according to "geographical", "different environments", "different agricultural production" to divide) categories, summarize the function of the role to The systematic recording of the tools of production to promote the development of productivity.

[Edit Paragraph] A, arable land tools

Arable land tools used for plowing the land, breaking the district, leveling the field and other operations. Experienced from Lei ??ê to animal power plow development process. The Han Dynasty animal power plow became the most important farming tools. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the northern part of the country already used plows, harrows, and ursurses to carry out dryland farming; the southern part of the Song Dynasty formed a plough, harrow, and the Chinese middle and highland rice paddy cultivation system.

The main tools for cultivation of paddy fields are plowing, harrowing, middle and high school, etc., and this system of cultivation was already formed in the Song Dynasty. In Jin Dynasty, harrow was invented to break up the soil after plowing, and the middle and lower centuries were used to mix the mud. In the Song Dynasty, the middle and high land cultivation tools, such as the middle and high land harrow, were used for mixing mud. The rice-planting horse, which appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, is a special tool for riding when pulling out rice seedlings.

[Edit Paragraph]Second, sowing tools

Sower is China's earliest use of sowing tools, invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Xiu period, the Song and Yuan period of the northern part of the common use. Northern Wei period appeared in a single row of sowing manual seeding tool gourd seeder. Rice transplanting tool - rice planting horse, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is the pulling of rice seedlings when riding the special tool, reduce the bending back labor intensity.

[Edit Paragraph]Third, weeding tools for plowing

Plowing tools for weeding, seedling, soil cultivation operations, divided into two categories of dryland weeding tools and paddy field weeding tools. Iron hoe is the most commonly used dryland weeding tool, used since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The weeder is a paddy field weeding tool, began to be used in the Song and Yuan dynasties.

[edit]Fourth, irrigation tools

The Shang Dynasty invented the orange pulley, the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty used windlass, the Han Dynasty created a manpower tipper, the Tang Dynasty, the emergence of the tube car. Tube car structure is simple, running water to promote, so far in China's southern hills and rivers and streams of water-rich places are still in use.

[Edit Paragraph]Fifth, harvesting tools

Harvesting tools include harvesting, threshing, cleaning tools. Harvesting tools include harvesting ears of the pinch knife, harvesting stalks of the sickle, short stiffness and so on. Threshing tools to the south of the barrel to the main, the north to the main threshing floor, spring and autumn threshing tool flail in China in the north and south of the common. Selection tools to dustpan, wooden shovel, fan car mainly, the use of fan car ahead of the West for nearly a thousand years.

[edit]Six, processing tools

Processing tools, including food processing tools and cotton processing tools two categories. Grain processing tools from ancient pestle and mortar, stone grinding disk development, the Han Dynasty appeared pestle and mortar variations of the form of pestle and pestle, stone grinding disk is improved for grinding, hulling. The North and South Dynasties period appeared grinding. Yuan dynasty cotton became an important textile raw materials in China, and gradually invented the cotton churn, spinning wheel, slingshot, cotton loom and other cotton processing tools.

[Edit Paragraph]VII, means of transportation

The 担, basket, pack, car is the main means of transportation in rural areas. Stretcher baskets are mainly used in mountainous areas or when the amount of transportation is small, the car is mainly used in the plains, hilly areas, and its carrying capacity is large.