It is a utensil used to hold things and winnow grain. It is called a dustpan in the north and a winnowing fan in the south.

The dustpan is a kind of agricultural tool, used to dust off impurities and empty shells in rice, and also used to dry persimmons, peanuts, etc. in the countryside, the north with willow weaving, the south with bamboo weaving. In modern times, there are also dustpans (handfuls) made of iron and plastic.

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The varieties of dustpans include the large dustpan, the small dustpan, and the netting dustpan.

The large dustpan, also known as a doo-gun (phonetic), is round, with a raised perimeter, and is made of bamboo and gabion, and can be used for drying grains, beans, and so on, by placing the doo-gun flat on the ground or on a couple of wooden benches.

The Jokgui is a small dustpan between the large and small dustpans, with no supporting corners, and is mainly used for loading things.

With the diversification of uses in daily life, weavers also produced a variant of the dustpan. This kind of dustpan is standing up on three sides, and one side is open, and this kind of variant dustpan is called colander, which is similar to our daily application of foreign porcelain washbasin. From the capacity, there are large colander, small colander, from the shape, there are square colander, round colander, rectangular colander. From the use of the colander buns, needle and thread colander, dry tobacco colander and so on. The workmanship of the colander is simpler than that of the dustpan, but the process is more elaborate, but also added a process of painting and dyeing, sketching.

Dustpan and colander in addition to sowing debris, grain, landscaping life, but also can be used as farmers sun dates, sun walnuts, sun peppercorns, sericulture, and so on.

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