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What kind of farm tool is a plow and harrow (sound: li pa)?

The plow and harrow? (sound: lí?pá) are both farming tools.

The plow turns the ground over, and the harrow breaks up the soil, with many teeth.

There are two pronunciations for "rake", bà and pá

"rake" bà: a farm tool used to break up and flatten clods of earth: peg-tooth ~, disc ~; to break up clods of earth with a rake: the ground has been ~ over

2. "rake" pá: an implement for gathering grain or leveling the ground. ; to level the ground or gather or scatter firewood, grain, etc., with a rake: ~ the ground.

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Examples of traditional agricultural tools

The tools for plowing and leveling the land

The tools are used for plowing and turning the land, breaking up the earth, leveling the field and other operations. It has gone through the development process from Lei?ê to animal-powered plow. 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, 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.

Irrigation tools

The Shang Dynasty invented the orange pulley, the early Zhou dynasty use windlass, the Han Dynasty to create and produce manpower trolley, the Tang Dynasty appeared 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.

Harvesting tools

Harvesting tools include harvesting, threshing, cleaning tools. Harvesting tools include pinch knives for harvesting ears, sickles for harvesting stalks, and short stilettos. Threshing tools in the south to rice barrels, the north to the main threshing floor, spring and autumn threshing tool flail in China in the north and south of the common. Cleaning tools to dustpan, wooden shovel, fan car-based, the use of fan car ahead of the West for nearly a thousand years.

Processing tools

Processing tools, including grain processing tools and cotton processing tools two categories. Grain processing tools from the ancient pestle and mortar, stone milling disk development, the Han Dynasty appeared pestle and mortar variations of the form of pestle and pestle, stone milling 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.