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The difference between a rake (pa zi) and a rake (ba)

Rake pa zi: to gather or spread grain, firewood or leveling the land with a farming tool, handle long, equipped with wooden, bamboo or iron teeth. This tool is a person to hold and use.

Harrow ba noun: used to break the soil, level the ground and eliminate weeds of the whole agricultural tools, according to the different parts of the work of the tine rake, toothless rake, disc rake. This tool is usually pulled by oxen, tractors, etc., to level the land, especially the land that has just been plowed.

Also, rake ba can be used as a verb, as to rake ba land.

If you've spent time in the countryside, you should have seen both tools before, I'm from the countryside and have used both. When I was a child plowing, planting time we all followed, raking sometimes squatting on the rake, to increase the weight, this time is usually after planting seeds, leveling the land, adults on top of the weight is too big, empty and a little light, find a child squatting on top, the front of the yellow oxen pulling. For children in rural areas, it was indeed a pleasure. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that!

And rake pa son we are using it to pick up firewood, such as bean leaves, sorghum leaves, corn leaves, etc., building into a pile.