"Haha! We built one of the largest straw piles in the village. Li Quan laughed at it.

"You kid be careful, don't fall down by yourself, if you don't die, your skin will collapse." Chu Jiaqiang hurriedly reminded that guy, after all, it is now taller than a one-story building, if he really falls, who can guarantee that he will not die, or be crippled?

Chu Shengmin smiled, working with these young people is motivated, and he feels young.

"We definitely can't be the highest, we don't have as many straws as others." The second uncle smiled.

"There are people in our hometown who do this, and some people even make haystacks around a tree." A tourist came over to watch, felt very kind, and said.

They don't call it a straw pile, they call it a haystack, and those groups of straw are called straw handles! In their hometown, after the rice is threshed, the straw is spread evenly and dried for a while, and then it is made into a straw handle, and it can be put away after another day or two of drying. Some farmers would stick a thick wooden pole in the open space near their house and fold the straw around the pole to form a stack of straw in the shape of a waist drum.

Many people even tie straw to tree trunks in the wild. Tie a knot with 4 to 5 handfuls of straw on the trunk about 2 meters above the ground, then stack them around the trunk one by one, then expand the radius to a certain height and then close it at the right time, and finally make a top cover, most of which are between 400 and 700 kilograms.

"Your hometown is in Nan. Creek? Hong Lao turned his head and asked.

The man was stunned and surprised: "How do you know?" ”

"Huh! There are many places to make haystacks on trees, but on a large scale, it is still Nan. Both banks of the stream. Those places have been walked before, and they are indeed a strange sight. Hong Lao smiled.

Every autumn, no matter in Nan. In the beach forests on both sides of the stream, on the hillside near the village, and even in the corner of the field and behind the house, you can see the golden straw piles everywhere, especially the straw piles that look like rugby balls on the waist of the tree trunk. The landscapes and pastoral fields of Xijiang are skillfully embellished, forming one beautiful landscape painting after another.

"Anything else? The pile is too high to go down for a while! It's a hassle to have to lift the long ladder out. Chu Jiaqiang shouted below.

In rural areas, there are long ladders, after all, the southern tile houses often have to go up to the roof to pick up tiles, etc., so the ladders naturally have to be made higher.

"Wait! There is one more point, anyway, there are not many, so I have to do the second one, just make one and forget it. The second uncle said. In previous years, there were two of them, but this year there are fewer fields.

"Later, people from Yamaguchi Village may come to harvest the straws." Li Quan said.

"How do you know? What do they want the straw for? Didn't you plough the fields yourself? Chen Wu and the others were puzzled.

"Of course I know, after all, my milk foundation is there. Through the efforts of Cai Zhiwen and others, the villagers have been persuaded to return most of their fields to grassland, leaving the relatively fertile farmland in the center of the village to continue farming. As a result, there are naturally fewer stalks, and as they graze more, so does the need for straw. Li Quan said.

This time, everyone remembered that this guy had smashed tens of millions in Yamaguchi Village. At that time, even the mayor took time out of his busy schedule to officially open his speech for the milk source base in Yamaguchi Village.

In addition to feeding cattle and sheep, straw also has a very common function, which is to use it as bedding for cattle and sheep. It not only keeps livestock warm, is conducive to animal health and environmental hygiene, but also absorbs livestock manure and urine, maintains fertilizer, and reduces volatilization and loss. Straw and manure are kneaded, and then fermented for a period of time, which is the most ideal base fertilizer for farmers, especially suitable for planting sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other crops.

The second uncle brought a ladder over, and Chu Jiaqiang asked Li Quan to go down first, anyway, there were not many. Looking down, he was at least six meters above the ground, but fortunately he was not afraid of heights.

"When you want to use it, don't you have to climb up and get it? It seems to be a lot of trouble! Someone questioned. Although it feels quite creative in this way of stacking straw, it feels flashy.

Chu Shengmin shook his head: "No, just smoke it on it." Pull out the bottom, and the top will naturally collapse, filling up the space you have pulled out. ”

"Oh! That's when I was wrong. The tourist smiled and was taught. I didn't understand the problem just now. In this way, it shows that the wisdom of farmers is not low! It seems that someone was right before that the creation of ancient China was all about practicality, and these haystacks can be seen.

"Hey! Don't come down yet, I'll take a picture of you. The tourist suddenly shouted to Li Quan, who was about to come down above.

"Good! Wait, I'll strike a pose first. Li Quan hurriedly said.

After finishing it, Zhou Furong had to carry a set of straws back. According to him, make a pair of straw sandals to wear. Chu Jiaqiang and the others are embarrassed, make a pair of straw sandals, do you need to carry a group so many times?

"Will you do it?" Chen Wu asked, expressing serious doubts.

Zhou Furong shook his head very honestly: "No, but the second uncle should be, right?" Didn't you wear that kind of thing when you didn't have shoes to wear before? It can absorb sweat, non-slip, etc., I think it's good! ”

"When we were young, we already had rubber shoes, as well as cloth shoes, straw sandals are not unworn, but very few, mainly straw sandals are easy to break, and we have to change a pair in more than ten or twenty days. At that time, we wore wooden shoes! Chu Shengmin said to everyone.

"Wooden shoes? Clogs? Isn't that thing Japanese? Someone asked. They found out that they also sold it in the mall, and they always thought it was Japanese, so they subconsciously didn't buy it.

"What words? The origin of wooden shoes is our China, and the Japanese just followed the trend, and at that time Japan was poor, they had many forests, and there was no shortage of wood, so they liked it and popularized it. Hong Lao immediately corrected.

China is the birthplace of wooden shoe culture, and the use of wooden materials in shoemaking has been recorded for nearly 5,000 years, and cork has been used in shoemaking for decades.

Zhou Furong nodded: "Yes, in fact, the most popular people to wear wooden shoes are still the Dutch." Wooden shoes are not only the most distinctive feature of Dutch clothing, but they are also said to be a token of engagement, and the man traditionally gives his handmade wooden shoes to the woman as a token when a young man and woman are engaged. Almost every Dutch man has at least one pair of beautiful wooden shoes for his fiancée in his life. ”

The common pattern is two intertwined hearts, symbolizing love, and Turkish buttons on the upper cheeks, symbolizing eternity, which together symbolize love surrounded by eternity. If the wooden shoes that the man gives to the woman are exquisite and very good, the woman thinks that the man is capable, sincere, and loves her, and the future marriage will be reliable and happy.