Memories of harvesting wheat after 1980s.

You can often hear cuckoo calls in the community these days. I remember when the cuckoo called when I was a child, it was the time to harvest wheat. Looking at the 24 solar terms, it's almost time to harvest wheat.

I can't help thinking of the wheat harvest season when I was a child. At that time, there were no fully automatic harvesters, and many of them were harvested with sickles. The quickest way is to cut it by machine, bind it into bundles manually, and then transport it to the wheat field. Tractors pull stones to run them over, or machines bombard them. Then you have to raise the wheat grains in the wind again and again and remove the husks before you can bag them and take them home.

Harvesting wheat by hand is a physical activity. Under the scorching sun, the straw is a little dry, so tie it up. There are many children and lots of land in our family. I remember that every year during the wheat harvest season, the school will have a wheat holiday and let the children help their parents. In fact, the teacher also has wheat to harvest at home.

As far as I can remember, harvesting wheat is the most difficult. I bent down to cut for a while, and my back ached and I was sweating. I remember one year I had heatstroke, and my mother asked me to go home first. Later, every time my sister mentioned it, she said that I really admired my sister. I couldn't cut wheat when I had heatstroke. Because after cutting the wheat, there are still ears of wheat falling on the ground, usually in the field all day, and I go home alone to cook a meal at noon.

In my impression, the happiest time to cut wheat is to have a bicycle to sell a freezer, a five-cent old popsicle to quench my thirst, and to eat a piece on a hot day, not to mention how carefree it is!

Nowadays, with the automatic harvester, farmers don't have to work as hard as before. Usually they finish harvesting in half a day, and the collected wheat is taken away in the field. I never thought that there would be such a convenient and labor-saving way one day when I was a child.