It is said to be a car, with no wheels under it, but four legs, like a strong cow, standing steadily. Because it is an instrument to remove chaff from chaff by rotating a shaft, it is called windmill. Windmill is a kind of agricultural tool similar to separator, which is ingenious in structure and even poetic. An ancient poem said, "A crow's ink melted into a small black window. Gardenia is light and fragrant. Why do you need bright red makeup? The moonlight is cool, the gold is trivial, and the piano is clear and jade is jingling. The windmill lies lazily in the cloister. " As for when it was invented, there is no evidence to prove it.
When I was a child, when I saw adults carrying rice with windmills, I always wanted to shake the handle of the windmills. Very interesting. But it doesn't move after a few shakes. The fact is that it is inefficient to lift rice with a windmill. The wheels of the windmill turn, the millet slowly flows into the grain basket, and the chaff floats out from the back air outlet of the windmill. This work is often done by male workers. A man was carrying a grain basket and pouring rice into a windmill bucket. One person specially shakes the handle of the windmill, and one person carries the picked millet back to the warehouse. In the end, the rice taken off by the thresher can't be eaten. After the land is contracted to households, farmers will not use windmills to lift rice, but use exhaust fans. The efficiency of raising rice by fan is much higher than that by windmill. Today, Hewen visited Dongsheng Hall and saw a windmill at the last entrance of Dongsheng Hall. I was so happy that I posed for Wen to take a photo.
Wen said, "You don't look like a farmer."
I smiled: "Why don't I buy a cardigan with a white background and a floral scarf on my head?"
? The administrator of Dongshengtang interjected: "If you are really asked to do this job, your hands and shoulders will be sore and you will laugh in less than an hour."
Is it? The wheel of history is advancing rapidly. Once hard, with the passage of time in the long river of history. Today, only one combine is needed to harvest rice. Whether it is a windmill or an exhaust fan, it has become a farm tool in memory.