It is called a dustpan (běn jī ).

The dustpan is a shovel-like dish made of wood, bamboo, or iron sheet, usually with a short handle, used for collecting and transporting garbage swept from the floor, handfuls of garbage, grain, and other implements, which are generally used as agricultural tools.

It has the advantage of deep nest, palm flat, do not spread grain and bumps. Palm flat for broadcasting debris, do not leave residue, good to make change. In the farmhouse, dustpan is a necessity for family life, a dustpan can be used for a long time with a little care.

Expanded Information:

In the past, the thrifty farmers would get up in the morning with a sorghum dustpan to collect dung. The dustpan was used to pick up dung. The short-beam dustpan was a tool for planting, filtering dung from the ridge, and transporting sand and soil over short distances.

With the implementation of agricultural mechanization, the Jidong Plain raised cattle, horses, mules, donkeys to planting, transport nearly disappeared, back dustpan picking dung has been extinct, planting artificial filtering dung has been few. The dustpan, which has existed in people's production and life for thousands of years, is going to fulfill its mission and leave the stage of history.

Contemporary "Yugong" is no longer "dustpan transported in the end of the Bohai Sea". Caofeidian port construction, there is a mountain reclamation project, the loader rumbles, dump trucks to and fro, but never see the dustpan figure. If you see this scene, you will be able to sigh with regret.

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