Random Talk on Southwest Shandong Dialect —— Grasping hooks, shovels, hoes and shovels

People often see or use shovels in rural areas, so I don't need to say more, but in some places in southwestern Shandong, people have always been called "shovels", and real shovels are also called "shovels". Only before there was iron, people used shovels first. Real shovels are rarely used now. During the production team, there was a special farm tool for shoveling, which was similar in shape to a shovel, except that the shovel head was made of wood, not iron. At that time, shovels were mainly used to shovel wheat and raise fields, that is, the threshed wheat and bran were scooped up with shovels and shovels and lifted up to let the wind blow away the wheat bran mixed in the wheat grains. I haven't seen any other uses.

The hoe, that is, the hoe is connected with the hoe handle in a V shape. People hold long hoes and pull hoes to move them in the fields to weed and loosen the soil. Chaoyanggou, a Henan opera, is a ten-fold scene of hoeing with silver rings, and the props are hoes.

Shovel is used for digging, especially some clods in southwest Shandong are hard, so it is used for digging. Ordinary land is turned over with a shovel. During the production team, after the corn and sorghum are harvested, the remaining corn stubble or sorghum stubble will be distributed according to the population, and each family will divide the corn or sorghum stubble several times. At this time, it is a good time to use a hoe. People dig out the stubble with shovels and use it as firewood when they get home. "

Grab hook is also an agricultural production tool, which consists of three thorns and a wooden stick. There are also two thorns, which are generally used to loosen the soil and plane sweet potatoes. I think it should still be used now, because asparagus is planted in southwest Shandong, so it should be used when it takes root. I once saw a tool for picking asparagus, such as a shovel with a small hook, and I forgot what it was called.

The local people basically speak the above-mentioned agricultural production tools according to the pronunciation of Putonghua, and some of them are good enough to add the word "De" or "Zi" after their names, such as "Grabbing the hook" and "hoeing the ground". Nowadays, agricultural farming is basically mechanized, and these traditional farm tools are gradually fading out of people's sight. However, the development of agriculture will be "the mouse pulls the shovel-the big head is behind" and it will get better and better.