What do you mean by the number of straw?

The number of cereal straws is a calculation method in traditional agriculture. When farmers harvest, they need to use bamboo poles or wooden sticks. According to the size of the harvest site, the pole is divided into several equal parts, and each equal part is numbered, which is called "Gu Maigan". When harvesting, every time an equal portion of grain wheat is harvested, farmers will fill the basket with the harvested grain wheat and put it on the corresponding straw number on the basket, so that they can know their harvest.

The number of cereal straws can effectively reduce the error rate of manual counting and improve the accuracy of calculation. In the past, farmers used manual counting to harvest. Because everyone's computing ability is different, it is easy to make mistakes. The method of using grain and wheat straw is not only simple and convenient, but also can reduce the error rate and improve the harvest efficiency of farmers.

With the development of modern agricultural technology, grain and wheat straw have been gradually replaced by mechanized harvesting. Now farmers use tractors or harvesters to harvest, and the mechanized harvesting efficiency is high, which can reduce labor costs. However, dried grain and wheat is still an ancient agricultural cultural heritage, which represents the diligence and wisdom of farmers and should be protected and passed down.