Essay about learning to plow in the hometown of Binzhou

I talked to my wife on the phone yesterday. She said that her family has started plowing and drying the fields. In recent years, farmers have all moved to the city to work. Years have made the iron plows rusty. Raising cattle is not profitable because of the long growth cycle. Money, there are really no cattle in the countryside, so it has become a new and strange thing for children today to see poultry and livestock in the countryside. Therefore, things like plowing and drying the land have become a matter of having agricultural machinery. Farmers can only contribute money. My daughter-in-law said that it will cost another 500 yuan to plow all the contracted land. The land has now become the farmer's. Burden, grain land subsidy was mentioned loudly in the past few years, but now the land subsidy only has a credit passbook for land subsidy, which has become a commemorative historical symbol!

When it comes to plowing and drying the land, it is a necessary way for farmers to survive in the Weibei dryland in my hometown. Nowadays, mechanized plowing means that most farmers work in the city. When plowing, they send some money back to their families and ask those who stay at home to help with the plowing. The bottom line is that farmers work to cultivate the land. As for letting their children Learning to plow and dry the ground is a joke and an outdated idea, but when it comes to plowing and drying the ground, the memories of the past are still fresh in my mind.

In my childhood memories, the earnest teachings of my fathers are still fresh in my mind. Farmers must learn how men farm and women weave. This is the duty of farmers. Farming and reading are the way farmers always teach their descendants to follow the example of virtuous people. It is also a virtue of farmers. Therefore, many families used to have four words on their front door: "Plowing, Reading and Heirloom". Men have to be proficient in everything when it comes to farming, whether it is plowing, planting, lifting columbians, sowing seeds, plowing, raking, hoeing, cutting, or grinding. Women have higher requirements for spinning, weaving, shearing, and tailoring. , embroidery is needlework. In the kitchen, you need to be able to fry, cook, stir-fry, fry, roll, cut, etc., and to be a good person at home, you need to be able to honor your parents-in-law and raise children and heirs. Therefore, in my impression, in the past, my hometown in Weibei In farmers' minds, measuring a woman's beauty does not mean whether a woman is pretty or not, or whether she has read books, played chess, calligraphy and painting, but what many men often say when talking about women is: " This woman is good at acupuncture, but how good is her knife skills?" In a word, she has to be able to work in the kitchen and enter the hall. Hey, just as we were talking about men plowing and drying the fields, why did they involve women again? Their ears are nailed to their palms, which is too far away from their hooves (the question).

Learning to plow is a compulsory course for farmers’ sons. You need to be able to weave cattle traps, you need to be able to tie knots and tie ropes, and you need to be able to adjust the depth of the wooden plow used for plowing. First of all, you need to know what "throwing your head" means? Want to know what a "plow" is? What is a "tablet"? Anyway, it’s just the parts of the wooden plow and the iron plow, and you need to be able to use them all. Another point is that the ropes used for large animals and small animals are different. The ropes used for cattle are completely different from those used for mules, horses and donkeys. Don't dare to make a joke. You will be scolded and trained at home.

If you know how to use farm tools, you are just scratching the surface. Regarding plowing, the knowledge is much more complicated than writing a few words about dog scum on paper and reciting one or two lines of poetry. Otherwise, why would you say "Seventy-two lines, farmers are king." You must be prepared to learn. When plowing, you must first understand the personality of your own animal. You must carefully observe the habitual movements of your own animal in advance when your parents are plowing. You must carefully observe whether it is slow or impatient. It likes to listen to the owner's commands. It usually I like those forage. When plowing, does it step into the furrow? If it doesn't step into the furrow, how did the fathers deal with it? Otherwise, if you don't master these things, then you will suffer the consequences of the livestock, because the livestock is the livestock. , it doesn’t have much memory, and it doesn’t have human thinking ability. If you really don’t know how to train animals, wouldn’t you be at its mercy? Therefore, you also need to be patient when plowing and drying the land. It is not easy to learn anything in the agricultural industry. In fact, it’s not just agriculture. There are seventy-two industries, and the work is difficult. Therefore, people in my hometown often say: "The carpenter is eager to learn, but the grinder is difficult to grind. The carpenter is eager to learn, but the slanting is difficult to file. The calligrapher is eager to learn, but the eight-legged knot is difficult to learn. The rope maker is eager to learn. It is difficult to learn the rope, but the doctor is eager to learn, and the thread is difficult to learn..." In a word, nothing in this world is easy, it is easy to learn, but it is not easy to become proficient. If you want to get ahead, it will not be possible in a day. also.

Don’t look at the small way of plowing, but it is complicated. Once you are familiar with the characteristics of the animals, it can be said that in the crop field, you can only drive the animals to plow the fields, but you can also fight back and forth in the fields. , as for what kind of plowing the land will be considered to be plowed well, mature, and thorough, it is also a matter of hard work. This is a skill that you can master after a period of practice.

To plow the land, you must first make the animals listen to your command and make the animals step into the furrows. Only by driving the animals to step into the furrows can your wooden plow or iron plow be able to plow the land and plow the land until it is ripe and thorough. Hoe the weeds in the crop fields so that the weeds can be dug up and buried deep in the soil, so that the fertility of the ground will not allow grass to grow. In this way, after the land is exposed to the sun in the dog days, the deep loess of the dryland will be able to have sufficient photosynthesis. , coupled with the abundant rain in July and August, coupled with today's new technology, top-dressing with an appropriate amount of chemical fertilizers and farmyard manure can reward you in the next year. People often say: "You cheat the land for a while, and the land cheats you for a year." Maybe this is the reason.

When the plow is moved too wide, the land becomes ridged. The old stubble is not buried, and each plow is not well connected. From a distance, one can see beams and ditches, and even some ridged weeds are still standing upright. Dili, this is going to be criticized by adults. If you say a few words lightly, the key points or if your parents have bad personalities, prepare to be beaten. If the plow is too narrow, you will only have to drive the animals back and forth for a long time, and you will not be able to plow half of the cows. You will miss the moisture, plowing will be laborious, and your time will be wasted. You will inevitably be punished and beaten.

Therefore, cultivating crops is not easy to learn, and it is also a matter of learning. It is not that some intellectuals sit in the office and write in a hasty manner. They can scribble one or two strokes at will and comment on the farmers all over the world at will.

Not to mention, learning any technology is actually the same as learning plowing from farmers. You have to be down-to-earth and plow one plow to learn the connotation and mystery of plowing. , Only in this way can you learn real skills and take on the responsibilities of your own family. A man can stand upright.

Although learning to plow the fields in Binzhou Hometown has become a step in history and a fleeting time that will never return, it still reflects the memory of my childhood and retains the beauty of my childhood that I will never forget... .....

July 24, 2018 Hami, Xinjiang