VIETNAMESE AGRICULTURAL TOOLS ABSENCE OF A TIME.

In the well-known folk: «Human life or daily supplies only a period alone». because, very often have to change no one escape, from humans to animals .

If we look back in time about the young a green flower borders (60 years), then we will see change people's lives should be noted, as evidenced by the Vietnamese agricultural tools we no longer use, such as: rice grinders, flour mill, rice mortars ... until the float, the old anchors, the venom to rice etc.

Previously, in the 4000 book PRACTICAL TERMS me to pen name South Lam NGUYEN surcharges (now the turn of 2011 I just use headers Auxiliary mail ), referred to the Vietnam Agriculture Specifically , in order to contribute to keep maintenance and dissemination of the next generation (please see Events Life Vietnam in 4000 PRACTICAL TERMS book on pages 567 to trrang 599 ).

Now, please contribute the least on hiatus for a while over Vietnamese agricultural tools , as we know, the country VN majority live on agriculture, so you will see in the folk saying:

December is the month grow sweet,

January planting beans,

February planted,

March implant rupture ru in ng,

April plated, rain fell full co ...

Plowshares and buffalo plowing

Because , field work began in March lunar month ( March implant rupture ru in ng) , before use buffalo plow blade with dual-till farming.

After that, good choice of rice sowing to prepare rice laying down the land sowing ( April plated, heavy sa plentiful) and harrow the land axis.

Develop harrowing axis up

It was not until about 14 of the seventh lunar month every year, the water level up to the land of timber, then start small, but, because, tide only convenient to transplant a few days, if small, late seedlings after as the sun, or is there where implants season started very late, in early August on the lunar calendar. That is, when the rain flood, flooded to waistband, farmers are transplanting the high-season varieties are good as: Aromatic her, shetet, white dwarf ... Nh hard to transplant plated , the inoculation venom, buffalo land used tree transplanting hands . sting

B On the hour or a bit more, workers transplanted to the field to catch pieces of culture and about five hours to catch e AU trees, they quickly Thoan escape v á sound hand pulled out of the water to hear chong wine Driving are, where they are drowning in water or a C with the rain, despite the mosquitoes buttocks squeezed disk.

Qu a ng th in the scene culture

Flat on their back is slow and conical hats to rain, sun. usually eat their lunch on the banks of the mounds are: rice, a cup of sauce, or fish stock and a bowl of pumpkin coconut stew ...

When it comes to rice, usually for women , use venom trees to grow rice. Tree venomcommonly used plants against the use of vehicles , to roughly venom plant, if made ​​of magazines such as trees: Why, oil, Mu U ... then implanted only one season only.

The men worry Story E n burdenplating , e cell i by buffalo toprovide women with implants.

In addition, they have to worry about plowing, soil and grass to clear the shaft, high voice for clean rice before you woman .

When it comes to plants float grass, it must be accompanied with anchor hooks isle tree . In the past, the villagers found earth moving grass in the rainy season, because single green grass field. This is hard work, Oh fishermen slave fishers farm boy t r can only play a land m at i on, is m et du, so eat before d offline new stomach , t uh s morning in m around 4 hours in 30 or 5 o has the same e e evolve grass, heard float beating down the bulge in the wall, make up the field.

Plane with focus anchor trees and grass

As we know of EC farming started :

March implant rupture ru in ng,

April plated, rain fell plentiful

E en nearly new New Year News December brought rice to go home and prepare food Chinese New Year New Year.

So, where do farmers crop to 2 or 3, depending on the seed and the land was split zoned field to perform fragmentation. therefore , the field always has grain, new suck copper, new cultures, new sowing or transplanting cuttings ...

But mostly, flooding season from July to August is winter ken rice and starting December 11 until December gold is the harvest of grain in the fields.

Here, the scene is cut threshing of rice farmers:

After that, dry paddy, fan rice, hours rice ... m árice brought into the house, or AC rice sold close b ANG 40 liters as d person who did this:

When the rice into the house and, your relatives farmers must over rice milling stage , and assume new rice white rice to cook everyday use, this ancient period is equally destitute new food to eat.

By the way, please tell rice grinders, C amniotic fake rice, flour grinders ... old days absent for a while now no longer useful as follows:

1. rice grinders : Day before no rice mill as it is today, so must d rice grinders , during the past half century , today amniotic c is no longer seen to use In addition, only found in museums, to the sister of the young generations know rice grinders , quote pictures I have taken are as follows:

When we find that rice grinders have two overlapping upper and lower th peppers, so my grandparents say this rice grinders positive k ET is like flour grinders , in addition to axes to grind rice. The cutting board on to pour rice as we see the image below:

Employment rice grinders r at the pole, I've heard the ancient elders tell, please cite as follows: When you look at the trees, we see it's shell is made ​​of bamboo or structure, so we must first It looks like the same shape as the baskets, and then choose a good clay and plastic, when used foot pedal for de, design to choose plants such as: banned car , nature to split teeth placed on, if with complex plants like: , Star, Diesel, blind U ... then things are not only long, but cheaper. The splitting trees to know that for proper technique, if not mill the brown rice good but broken rice ...

The mortar on cutting boards and cutting boards under the same as each other, just another cutting board on the hole so that when the mill the rice and add 2 hands to attach the crane mill. Then, as the foot of trees and the need to mill by hand cranes . About plants, each different country, where very picky, Tre for knitting sheath trees cut down in December , b vomiting , dry, late dry, and easy to knit and durability. Molar is made ​​of chestnut tree roots and spread with a layer of soil at each spacing, b Oh because, the ancient Specifically for r ANGland in each subject, whether in the air c r h Au heater is not cracked at best.

Rice mill to grind brown rice , like white rice to eat, they must use a rice mortar . Want clean brown rice after rice milling, is required to take the wind to clean the cover of rice panicles before bring white rice.

2. rice mortars mortar and pestle , th he often ancient so-Mortar made ​​of precious trees like form , nature and oranges .... so hard to make reliable scan (left) long not crushed, cylindrical, after the 60 - 70 mill not made ​​of trees, which replaced mill , by your plants increasingly difficult to find reasonable? pestle usually two the b antenna complex tree as: Why, Oil, Blind U ... long range 1 Size 2 to half 1thuoc (1.5 m), to the two people leftgive quickly tr Angrice, in Year all New Year, usually use the Mortars to scan Cake Room ( treat rice imitation of View New Year traditions criticized the book Understanding the Life of An Lac from page 590 to page 616 of Title Nguyen Phu Thu ).

After pounding rice , and to use the sieve to sift bran and broken rice . forbidden to eat pork, and rice slabs to cook later.

3 . powder grinders : After rice mortars e To cook white rice to eat every day, like the French bread v whoa. want with flour to make bread, must use rice soaked in water before a night before grinding flour . powder grinders , made ​​of stone kh fluid, then carved into the two cutting boards top and bottom of the image. In the past, especially during the New Year, usually, your relatives fellow blender e powder To grind the flour, and make cakes, specially brought to the oven for powder coated the cake : rice paper thin to make rolls, spring rolls, rice paper thin sweet eaten raw, thick cake to bake. In addition, while the coated cake lady bring green bean shrugged , fried coconut shell ... thenget fresh rice paper thin skin moist delicious cake. That is, time immemorial, flour grinders today are no longer used, because the dough was very handy for sale anywhere.

Mill

4. Caught fish, eel : Back to flooding season from July to August is winter ken rice , fish also test different to look forward to and to buy gold grain , water started drained, the fish began to rach river, so fish farmers throughout the year and oftentool used to catch fish, quote 586 pages book 4000 From Language Practice 2 write 4 languages: English French English and Chinese (Germany) Language of Nguyen Phu Friday said on agricultural appliances wine list a time below:

(If you need to learn how to Soi fish, Fishing, Click, Prohibition verses, John, netted fish, landslides fishing iron, Put boss arrested eel, catch mouse .... please read the article Posts Tho Le writer , editor of journals for Vietnamese Culture , released in Houston, Texas, United States, especially British post Personal Storytelling Getting Miet on the Que River Park I , was published in special issues of Compliance Sa Nine Long Xuan Ox 2009 from the pages 93 to 102 , great value, would like to introduce to young researchers collected documentation as needed).

If we look back in time over the 50 years of our life in rural Vietnam, although rudimentary farm tools garden , not civilized modern machinery as now, butcomfortable life, by fields of rice fields, shrimp fish, birds, mice lot, backyard with fruit trees and fresh water, not current infection, cause the human health threatening disease, by the chemical and machinery industry created.

Moreover, today the population has increased by over 85 million people, while the shrimp fish giving birth does not meet demand, so no scene sprayed banned aromatic ran on the land when the shallow water and then wait for the flood Sesame fish under water grow food bait, fishing for some fresh catch silver carp , like the time my father was an ancient fishing, because clean water is not due to toxic waste contamination of the in addition, due to the excessive fishing without knowing the maintenance of individual fish, such as electricity .... consumption of eggs and fry, sometimes no longer see the familiar fish such as fish: Catfish Gold, Tomb, Alum, Rome (only Tilapia see ) ....

To temporarily ended this article, please contribute the least to those who want to learn the Agricultural Instrument absent for a while , and are looking forward to those who have been born in rural areas knows, please add this to supplement more than adequate. Thanks and best regards.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER.( VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS.GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.16/9/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).