What do you mean by a sickle?

Translated from: Baidu Post Bar-Chengchengba webpage link

The falx is a dialect in Weibei, Shaanxi, which means to harvest wheat. Although the farm tool sickle is about to enter the museum, the word sickle is still in use today. Before putting up a sickle, you should clear up the field, which is the place to grind and dry wheat. Generally, some early-maturing crops are planted in the site, such as rape and barley. Harvesting crops in the field is a delicate job, no less than intensive cultivation. Crops need to be dug up by roots, animals should be raked and raked back and forth several times to level the site. In the afternoon, before the sun goes down, water should be evenly spread on the flat land to increase the humidity of the clods, which is called "splashing field".

plant ash in the kang cave is an excellent "mask" for the venue. Hard-working farmers have dusted the venue with several cages before dawn. At this time, these farmers usually put on animals and pull the big bluestone at the door to crush it in the field. The farmers call it the "light field". After some tossing, the field where the wheat waves rolled the day before yesterday became smooth and smooth. Murakami dolls pushed their bicycles here to play while adults were not looking. After the "light" of the field, the wheat was still a little green, so the farmers took advantage of their leisure to buy some straw hats and several farm tools at the rally and "tinkled" to take down the agricultural county hidden upstairs for maintenance. The same is true for people. In the past few days, several "medicine jars" in the village have also been lying on the beds of the village clinic, hanging a few bottles of glucose to increase nutrition and ensure foolproof. After the "June 1st" festival, schools in rural areas had a "busy holiday". After Murakami dolls live a life of "catching butterflies in the field" and "catching tadpoles by the canal" for a long time, the male dolls will go down to the fields with the sickle prepared by his eldest (dialect: dad), while the female will stay at home and feed the chickens for cooking. The summer harvest is just around the corner, and Murakami's radio is not idle for a moment, and the Shaanxi opera is constantly on, but some "advertisements" are added from time to time, which is nothing more than the summer harvest of "quick harvest, fast broadcast and longkou grabbing food". The old wall has long changed its face, and the cultural people in the village have written slogans such as "wind-proof, rain-proof, electricity-proof" and "devote themselves to summer harvest" in bold.

You have to get up early to cut wheat. It's cool and energetic in the morning, so you can cut more sickles. The shopkeeper got up before dawn and sharpened everyone's sickle, and tried it on his hair to see if it was good or bad. The wife also cooked breakfast to arouse her dream family. Farmers usually don't go home at noon when they work in the fields, so before leaving, they have all kinds of carts, ropes, water, dry food, grindstones and so on. Cutting wheat, like flying geese, has a certain team spirit. Strong body sickle handle type, the first sickle is opened and hang in the middle of the ridge, while weak body and slow hands and feet are arranged on both sides of the ridge. Because the middle is thick and the sides are thin.

After a ridge of wheat was cut, the tung trees gathered in the field for a rest, ate dry food, drank some water, covered their faces with a straw hat, and fell asleep after listening to the radio ballad Yang Jiajiang.

After the wheat was pulled to the field, it was spread, ground, turned over, ground again, raised and raised, piles of wheat hills appeared in front of the farmers. Chengcheng Huang's was very gratifying. Grab a basket of wheat, change some oil cakes at the oil cake stand at the entrance of the village, and have a nice meal, Mrs. Heidi (dialect: good).

In a few days, we will take the grain books with us and take the new wheat to the grain station in the town to "serve grain", and then the sickle-building will officially end.

illustration of wheat

farmers are making a sickle.