Ancient Agricultural Tools

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

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

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

Traditional agricultural tools is a general term for agricultural production tools that have been 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 various regions, different environments, corresponding to 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. A clearly documented agricultural tool for sowing is the Western Han columbarium plow, which is drawn by an animal and supported by a person at the back, and can simultaneously complete the two tasks of furrowing and sowing.

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

[Edit Paragraph] A, arable land tools

The arable land tools are used for plowing the land, breaking up 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 complementary dryland farming; and the southern part of the country formed a system of plowing, harrowing, and modern-day cultivation of paddy fields during the Song Dynasty.

The main tools for cultivation of paddy fields are plowing, harrowing, and middle and high school, and this system of cultivation was already formed in the Song Dynasty. In Jin Dynasty, harrows were invented to break up the soil after plowing, and the middle and middle ages were used to mix the mud. In the Song Dynasty, water field preparation tools such as the middle and highland land cultivators appeared 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

Sowers are the earliest use of sowing tools in China, 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, the plow weeding tools

The plow tools used for weeding, inter-seedling, soil cultivation operations, divided into two categories of dryland weeding tools and paddy weeding tools. The iron hoe is the most commonly used dryland weeding tool, which began to be used during 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 water pulley, the early Zhou dynasty used windlass, the Han Dynasty created a manpower tipper, the Tang Dynasty appeared tube car. Cylinder 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 in the south to rice barrels, mainly in the north to the threshing floor, the spring and autumn threshing tool flail appeared in the north and south of China in general. Selection tools to dustpan, wooden shovel, fan car-based, 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 mortar 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

Stretchers, baskets, packs, cars are 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, its carrying capacity is larger.