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What does it mean to put an inverted water tank on the right side of the gate?

Agricultural Wind Xi Zhi "Rice Grower Dressed as a Rice Guest"

Early rice is mostly planted around Tomb-Sweeping Day. The so-called "horseshoe with tung leaves is big, so it is not a problem to raise seedlings." Mud is planted in the valley, and dummies are usually tied in the fields, or fake harriers are hung to prevent rats and birds. The first time you pull out seedlings, you need to light candles, fire guns and open the door of the seedling farm. Transplanting, commonly known as planting fields and crops, and some congratulations on "planting rice trees". When planting grain, experts often "split the page" (open the page)-insert a pole on the other side of the field, first plant a few stumps in the field, align them with the line, then plant them while retreating, and plant a row of four stumps from left to right, which is called "planting grain conveniently". On the other side, the seedlings are in a straight line, just like a page of a book, which is so beautiful that it is named cracked page. The second person plants the page from the right, which is called "page cutting", and so on. If the former is surpassed by the latter, it is called "closing ducks" and "drilling bags". If you turn a corner halfway, you will be laughed at for "crossing Dongting Lake". In order to seize the season, relatives and friends came to help. Growing grain called "reporting for work" is regarded as an important competitive activity, and experts are highly respected, so it is called the master of growing grain. When harvesting early rice, we should weigh meat and wine and treat them warmly. The so-called "rice growers play the role of rice customers." But don't eat meat for breakfast, in case the sickle hurts your hand. To dry grain, bamboo should be used as drying reed, or thin cow dung paste should be used to dry the field to make it smooth and sediment-free. After the grain is dried, it is blown with a windmill, and there is no "lifting field".

Farming wind Xi system "one season sweet potato half-year grain"

In addition to rice, Changsha has a long history of planting crops such as barley, wheat, buckwheat, sorghum, millet, flax (black sesame), white sesame, rape, tea, sericulture, ramie, cotton and day lily. Bean crops are often planted with broad beans, peas, soybeans, black beans, red beans, mung beans, Mi Dou, mud beans, Emei beans and boiled beans. Among them, soybeans are divided into May Yellow, June Yellow, July Yellow and August Yellow. Mud beans, also known as lazy beans, are excellent raw materials for making Liuyang douchi. Sweet potato and tobacco were introduced in the Ming Dynasty, but they developed rapidly and were widely planted, so they were called "sweet potato in one season and grain in half a year".

Agricultural wind Xi is always "planted in front of the house, not under the eaves"

Changsha is rich in forest resources, including hundreds of common tree species and some rare tree species, such as ginkgo biloba. Farmers like to plant camphor, cypress, bamboo, catalpa, maple, fir and other landscape trees and various fruit trees in front of and behind their houses, but in some places there is a custom of "no bamboo in front of the house, no tung in the back, no brown at the door and no pine in the yard". Toona sinensis was planted in front of the door, but it couldn't reach the eaves. Growing bamboo often makes children cry. People buy a forest and cut it down, which is called "Jushan", the whole cut is called "Qingshan" and the single tree is called "Huashan". Generally, "concubine trees" (planting trees) are not cut down. There are many taboos in logging in the mountains. First, we should kill the rooster, sacrifice to the mountain gods and protect the Qing Dynasty. Speaking in the mountains is very cautious and careless. Generally, I only do things in the morning and seldom speak to prevent a slip of the tongue.

The development of primitive agriculture in Changsha promoted the development of primitive animal husbandry. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, animal husbandry in Changsha has spread to every household.

Animal husbandry likes to ban "Jiang Taigong is here".

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, pig breeding in Changsha has changed from grazing to captivity, that is, pigsty and pigsty have been built in partial houses (or miscellaneous houses). There are "upstairs" and "downstairs" on the railing floor, and there are fences and stone troughs outside. Pig food is called Pan, which is boiled with green feed and broken rice bran. Concentrated feed such as rice, bean dregs, bran and distiller's grains should be added to the wok of sows, piglets and shelf pigs. As the saying goes, "it's not a coincidence to feed pigs, but it's full."

The words "Jiang Taigong is here" and "Jiang Taigong is here" are often printed on the walls of Changsha farmhouse pigsty, and the five claws of lime are also printed. This is because according to folklore, when Jiang Ziya built a platform in Qishan to worship the gods, the ghost of his wife Ma Shi lingered. She knelt down and begged for a seal, which made Jiang Taigong furious: "You are a god of plague ..." Ma Shi kowtowed and ran away before the words were finished. Since then, he has become a plague that hurts livestock. Farmers used Ma Shi's weakness of being afraid of Jiang Ziya's five grenades to expel athel Loren. The story is ridiculous, but it has been handed down from generation to generation among the people.

Pastoral likes to ban "Love Niu Yi"

Most of the cattle raised in Changsha are service cattle, and there are very few cattle. Buffalo and cattle are kept in indoor cowshed, and only in the morning and evening of spring, summer and autumn are they led by children. Farmers believe that cows eating naked aquatic plants can clear away heat and nourish. When grazing cows, people usually cut grass and scatter it in the cowshed at noon or at night. During the busy farming season, cows are fed concentrated feed, such as salt, Gu Mi and raw eggs washed with wine, to make them energetic. In winter, straw is mainly fed, supplemented by chaff and the like.

In autumn and winter, Shangdong Town in Liuyang often grazes cattle in the surrounding mountainous areas, which makes the water town in the south of the Yangtze River present the grassland scenery in the north. The farmer loves Niu Yi deeply. When it rains, I am afraid that the cows will catch cold and put on hemp fiber; Cover the cowshed with straw mats in winter to keep out the wind and cold; Smoked in summer to repel mosquitoes; The four seasons are afraid that the "cow louver" will dry up and always fill the cow water tank. The cow was ill, so I called the doctor to prescribe medicine, and some of them cried. Cattle are old, some can't bear to kill them, let them die of natural aging, and after death, they also light incense sticks and bury them in the ground.

Animal husbandry likes the forbidden "egg love"

Raising sheep is another sideline of farmers, usually tied to the beach or hillside with ropes during the day. In particular, we should avoid sheep hurting crops, saying that the seedlings eaten by sheep can't grow. There is a proverb called "the cow's mouth is fat, the chicken's mouth is poisonous, and the sheep's mouth shrinks inward."

Chickens and ducks are the cash cow of rural housewives, and reciprocity is indispensable. Lack of matches and salt, temporarily exchange eggs; When the husband is tired, cooking two poached eggs for him is the most common behavior of "wife comforting her husband". The scale of raising ducks in Changsha is "putting ducks in the lake" (or ducks among ducks). A family of 100 ducks, or hundreds of ducks, prepare a duck shed to cook and go out to wander. Spring is the peak season for laying eggs, and dozens of pounds of eggs can be picked up every day.