The partner of a broom is called a dustpan . The partner of the broom is called the dustpan, one sweeps and the other holds the garbage, which is then emptied into the garbage can or garbage bag. The partner of the broom is called a dustpan in Mandarin, and there are three meanings of dustpan, one of which is a shovel-like implement used for garbage, but there are many dialects in the country, and the names are very different.

And the broom partner utensil, Mandarin called dustpan, one of the shovel-shaped utensil, used for garbage, but many dialects, especially in the south of the country, especially in many areas, has always been a different sound, a hundred miles of different language.

History of the development of the broom

Originally from China, as early as 4,000 years ago in the Xia Dynasty, a man named Shaokang, once happened to see a wounded pheasant dragged forward to crawl, crawling through the place of much less dust. He thought, this must be the role of chicken feathers, so he grabbed a few pheasants plucked the feathers to make the first broom. This is also the origin of the chicken feather duster.

Because the chicken feathers used were too soft and not resistant to wear and tear, Shaokang replaced them with bamboo strips, grass and other raw materials, and converted the duster into a durable broom. Also refers to the chenopodiaceae plant ground skin alias. A broom made from sorghum stalks is widely used in Europe, Asia, and much of the world.

U.S. President Benjamin Franklin advocated the planting of sorghum in order to develop agriculture, and sorghum was planted throughout the United States. One day, an old farmer in Hadley needed a new broom, he cut some sorghum stalks, tied with a rope, both durable and useful, so we all scrambled to follow suit, began to use sorghum broom, thus making the United States appeared sorghum broom manufacturing industry.

With the improvement of the material life of people's families, the material of the broom is also more and more sophisticated, but also more subdivided, including clothes, closet special small broom, with superior materials. For wooden floors also have a softer modern new material broom, but in the highway, as well as the vast rural areas, such as bamboo broom is still widely used.