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What are the types of brooms

Summary: broom, also known as whisk broom, is dusting, cleaning tools, the invention of broom can be traced back to more than four thousand years ago in the Xia Dynasty, Shaokang, in the Western culture, broom is a kind of magic props. Broom is divided into manual broom and electric broom two kinds of broom, manual broom broom with raw materials such as sorghum spikes, golden grass, bamboo tips, broom grass, etc., household is usually plastic broom; electric broom sweeper, vacuum cleaner and so on. Let's take a look at the broom! First, the introduction of the broom

Pinyin: [saozhou], can also be called "broom" (tiaozhou), the name is not the same, the meaning is the same, are cleaning. The existence of the broom, to the people's health cleaning has brought great help, with it cleaning more convenient, and the product can also be reused, the price is relatively low, can be said to be the necessities of life. There are two meanings of broom:

1, remove dust, garbage and other appliances.

2, an alias of the ground skin. Ming Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica - Grass V - Ground Botanicals": "Ground sunflower, ground wheat, drop broom, sole broom, king _, king broom, broom stems can be broom, so there is a broom, _ all names."

The word "broom" is hieroglyphic. "snout" is the hand, the lower part indicates holding a towel to clean. The addition of the bamboo part "_" is a later creation. Shuowen: "Broom, dung. From 又, hold a towel and no WHP inside."

The broom has a long history. As early as 4,000 years ago, during the Xia Dynasty, a man named Shaokang once happened to see an injured pheasant dragging itself forward, with much less dust where it had crawled. He thought, this must be the role of chicken feathers, so he grabbed a few pheasants and plucked the feathers to make the first broom. This is also the origin of the chicken feather duster. As the chicken feathers used were too soft and at the same time not resistant to wear and tear, Shaokang that is, replaced with bamboo strips, grass and other raw materials, the duster was converted into a durable broom.

In Western magical culture, the broom is a flying tool, usually piloted by a wizard. Riding on a broom handle with the broom pointing backwards, it was said that one could fly overhead.

Two, what are the types of brooms

The broom is divided into manual and electric.

1, manual broom has sorghum broom, bamboo branch broom, bamboo broom, broom grass material broom and plastic broom five.

(1) sorghum broom: one day, Hadley, an old farmer needs a new broom, he cut some sorghum stalks, tied with a rope, both durable and useful, so we all scrambled to follow suit, began to use the sorghum broom, so that the United States appeared in the sorghum broom manufacturing industry, until now, the broom is still in application.

(2) bamboo broom: rural sun grain sweeping, inseparable from the bamboo broom, but the leaves on the bamboo generally need to be manually removed, a lot of labor.

(3) bamboo broom: Shanxi bamboo broom generally refers to the kind of large bamboo broom, used to clean the yard and the area of the site and the road.

(4) broom grass material broom: broom grass is an ovoid plant shape, the height of but 1.5 meters, fine branches and leaves, bright color, is a beautiful green material. In northern China farmers, often cut its old plants, flattened and dried to make broom with.

(5) Plastic broom, as I thought, that is, made of plastic material broom.

2, electric brooms have sweepers, vacuum cleaners, household vacuum cleaners, etc., are derivatives of brooms.