Falx is a northern Shaanxi dialect, which means harvesting wheat. Although the agricultural implement sickle is about to enter the museum, the word sickle is still in use today. Before hanging the sickle, you should clear the field, which is where the wheat is ground and dried. Generally, some early-maturing crops, such as rape and barley, are planted in the site. Harvesting crops is a delicate job, no less than intensive cultivation. Crops need to be dug up by roots, and animals need to rake back and forth several times to level the field. Before the sun goes down in the afternoon, water should be sprinkled evenly on the flat ground to increase the humidity of the clods, which is called "water splashing field".

Plant ash in the kang cave is an excellent "mask" for the venue. Hard-working peasant families have scattered several cages of ash on the site before dawn. At this time, these farmers usually put on animals and pull the big bluestone at the door to grind it in the field. Farmers call it "Guangtian". After some tossing, the fields where the wheat waves rolled the day before yesterday became smooth and smooth. Murakami dolls come here to play with their bicycles while adults are not looking. After the "light" in the field, the wheat was still a little green, so the farmers took advantage of their leisure time to buy some straw hats and farm tools at the rally and "tinkled" the agricultural county hidden upstairs for maintenance. So do people. These days, several "medicine jars" in the village have 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 have lived the life of "catching butterflies in the field" and "catching tadpoles by the canal" for a long time, the male doll will go down to the field with the sickle prepared by his eldest brother (dialect: dad), while the female doll 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. 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 already been transformed, and the cultural people in the village have written slogans such as "wind, rain and electricity prevention" and "dedication to summer harvest" in bold letters.

You must get up early to cut the wheat. In the morning, the weather is cool and you are full of energy. You can cut more sickles. The shopkeeper got up before dawn to sharpen everyone's sickles and tried them on his hair to see if they were good or bad. The wife also made breakfast to wake up her dream family. Farmers usually don't go home at noon when they work in the fields, so before they leave, they have all kinds of carts, ropes, water, dry food, grindstones and so on. Cutting wheat, like geese, has a certain team spirit. Strong sickle handle type, the first sickle is hung in the middle of the ridge, and the weak body and hands and feet are slowly arranged on both sides of the ridge. Because the middle is thick and the sides are thin.

After cutting a ridge of wheat, the tung trees gathered in the field had a rest, eating dry food, drinking garlic, wearing straw hats and covering their faces, and fell asleep listening to the radio folk song "Yang Jiajiang".

After the wheat is pulled into the field, it is leveled, flattened, turned over, flattened again, lifted up and lifted up again, and piles of wheat hills appear in front of farmers. Huang Chengcheng is 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 good meal, Mrs. Heidi (dialect: good).

In a few days, I took my grain books and new wheat to the grain depot in the town to "serve food", and then the sickle land reclamation officially ended.

Wheat illustration

Farmer's sickle