A few days ago, an environmentalist happened to ask me to help from the village to bring some hemp rope back to tie things, from the beginning of just recognizing the hemp rope, this plant subverted my perception. Originally there are so useful and good use of things, I know that many places in Guangxi in the planting of sugar cane, but has always been, to see the help of sugar cane things either from the mountains to find bamboo, or rope, bamboo needs to be made into a silk after drying and put up to save, need to be used when soaking water can be taken to the use of it, but need to look for many months ahead of time to find these bamboos, because of the requirements of the bamboo, too young or too old would not be suitable. Too young or too old will not be suitable. After you get it back, there is still a lot of work to be done to make the bamboo strips into bamboo wire with a razor blade, which is fine. Rope is not as good as plant fiber for tying sugarcane, it doesn't fit as well and requires a lot of effort to tie. So when you see jute in the village, you really have the feeling that this plant has saved many villagers.

Called it jute, this is the name given by the village people, the real scientific name is what, I did not look into. Because it is also to go to many times, only the entire growth process of this plant completely seen, or not all have seen there is not much of a concept. When organizing the photos, I found that I almost recorded the process of farmers using it, and I think the whole process is very interesting, so I thought to record it.

October, fell out of the leaves of the hemp pole is really very beautiful, bright green pole body plus pointed red top, and then there are one or two small flowers embellished with them, if there is sunshine, is to let people brighten up the scenery it. I haven't observed it in the past, but it's a color change after the leaves fall off.

Farmers like to push up the harvested hemp stalks, which may be left to dry for a few days, and some wait until they are dry to start peeling. Others start stripping down these plant fibers when they are first retrieved.

After taking off that outer layer, the core of the hemp stalks leaks out, and this is when they can be bundled up into a ball and placed in the sun, and when they are dried out of moisture, they can be taken to the fire.

And stripped down the coat, it is placed in an open place to dry for a period of time, let it dry after bundled into a ball tied up and saved. If it is already dried in the field in the early stage before bringing back the skinned does not need to be dried again.

There is also the case that after drying directly in the field, you can peel the skin directly and save it.

Waiting to enter the season of cutting sugar cane, the previous preservation of the hemp rope can be taken out of the soaking water, so that its toughness is released, you can get to the ground, the cut sugar cane tied up.

The use of such hemp rope binding sugar cane, is very natural plant fiber rope, in addition to the use of easy to bind, hemp stalks is really very environmentally friendly a plant, the seeds can be planted again, the outer skin used to tie things, the core of the wood is used to make a fire for cooking, all parts are fully utilized.

Afterwards, there will be an opportunity to record the process from birth to growth, but also want to record from the plant nature observation to see if there can be villagers to participate in the record, it will be a better nature observation record. Would the children in the village be willing to participate in doing similar species records? It might be a fun direction~