Dustpan, which can also be called dustpan, handful of dustpans, handful of dustpans, dustpan,a kind of shovel-like disk usually used for garbage, usually with a short handle to collect and transport things swept up from the floor, is a good helper for people to do housework. Widely used in rural areas of China, is an important agricultural production and living tools.

The dustpan has different names, specific forms and use of different scenes. In the northern part of China, dustpan generally refers to the square bar willow weaving apparatus, three sides closed, one side open with a tongue, used for harvesting to remove impurities in the grain. The dustpan can also be used for harvesting grains, soybeans, peanuts and so on. There is also a round basket with small holes at the bottom, generally known as sieve in the north. As for dustpans and handpans, the north generally refers to tools for storing garbage.

History of Development

The dustpan has a long history in China. In the oracle bone inscriptions, the name "箕" is written as "其", and the character shape is just like a dustpan, which originally refers to the bamboo and wooden tool for lifting rice and removing chaff, i.e. the dustpan. Later, the word "其" was used as a pronoun, and "箕" was created to represent the meaning of "dustpan".

The name "箕" is also used as the name of the star constellation, one of the twenty-eight constellations, which is in the shape of a dustpan and consists of four bright stars. It is one of the twenty-eight constellations, and is made up of four bright stars.

Mi Zi was the uncle of King Zhou, and according to the Records of the Grand Historian, he later established "Mi Zi Chosun", which was known as the Mi Zi Dynasty or Yin's Mi Zi Dynasty, and became the early dynasty of Chosun that existed for nearly a thousand years.