Chapter 18 Chapter 16 Slash-and-burn farming
The child prodigy Kui Kui proposed to Nu Wa the idea of changing the point planting to planting grains in patches, which was approved by Fuxi and Nu Wa.Nuwa entrusted Kui Kai with the important task of governing the land.Unexpectedly, Kui Kui came up with the method of slash-and-burn farming, which suddenly made grain the main food of Taihao people.As a result, Kui Kui changed from a child prodigy to a Shennong.
The news of the god's millet descending from the sky spread quickly, and people from the tribe all came to the place where Nu Wa lived, to see what the heaven had descended.They also stopped by to see what Xiao Kuikai, who sent the gods down from the sky, looked like.This time, Xiao Kuikai became a child prodigy in the Taihao tribe. People really respected and loved him when they saw him.Even after Fuxi came back and heard about it, he immediately had a new plan.Fuxi said to Nüwa: "I think Kui Kui is not ordinary, especially he has a special sensitivity to plants. I am afraid that this cannot be obtained through hard work. Let's do this, you go and talk to Nv Deng and Chi." God said, we will hand over the management of the fields to Xiao Kuikai in the future, and let Nv Deng and Chi Tian assist him, can we do it?" Nuwa said: "This child is only about ten years old, he is too young!" Fuxi said: "But judging from his understanding of plants, even you and I can't match him." Nuwa said: "It is true. But what will the tribe think about this matter?" Fu Xi said: "In the eyes of the tribe, Kui Kai has become a child prodigy. They wish we could do this!" Therefore, when he was ten years old, Xiao Kuikui became the leading figure in the Taihao tribe's Zhitian, and became the Tulong clan.Although Kui Kai is young, he does not act like a child. The first thing he did was to change the way his mother and daughter planted millet, sugar beets, and gourds, and dig a pit to scatter seeds in it. , changed to large-scale land reclamation, changed dots to planes, and turned the planting of bits and pieces into the development of patches and patches.When Xiao Kuikui said this idea, even Fuxi was taken aback.Fuxi secretly said: It's incredible, although the child is young, his mind and approach are so grand, I can't match it! But the idea is the idea, and when it is actually implemented, there are too many things to face.The biggest thing is: the tools don't work.Stone utensils such as stone shovel, stone shovel and stone pick are okay when they meet some soft weeds, but if they meet trees, tree roots, thicker grass roots and land with stones, it will be over. A tool It folded after a few clicks, and it took longer to get another tool than to dig some weeds. Little Kuikai was a little bit in trouble, but he was not discouraged. He asked Nuwa: "Grandma, I want to plant corn in patches, but now stone shovels, stone shovels, and stone picks are not enough. Do you know what kind of stone shovel, stone pick? Aren't picks and stone shovels bad for weeding and reclaiming land?" Nüwa said: "These stone tools have been developed by people for many years. Up to now, stone tools are still the hardest tools. If these stone tools are not good, it means that the method of planting in patches may not work. .” Little Kuikai came to ask Fuxi again, and Fuxi said: "You have a good idea, but you can't just work hard on improving tools. Tools are not good. We have also grown millet, beets and gourds in the past. Why? This is because of these During the use of fine stone tools, if you encounter something harder than the stone tool, the stone tool will not work, but if you encounter something softer than the stone tool, the stone tool will not break easily, so I think you should start by looking for soft soil. If you find a place like this and use it as a test field this year, if the corn can grow and mature in patches by autumn, it means you are right." Hearing Fuxi's words, Xiao Kuikai wandered around Lantian for a long time, and finally found a piece of soft land. Although it was covered with weeds, but when he dug it down with a stone pick, he couldn't find any stones or thick roots. Let people open an experimental field here, and plant the corn in the spring season. In the autumn of this year, a piece of thick corn grows tall and mature. If the corn is harvested, the harvest is more than that of Tianyushensu People from Taihao, Lantian, Chenzhou, Xinshi, Mengjin and Taihao from Fushan all came to celebrate.From this day on, Xiao Kuikai has another name, Shennong. On the divination platform, Fuxi said to Taihao: "Today, a child prodigy appeared in our Taihao tribe, that is, Nvdeng's child, Xiao Kui Kui. Although Kui Kai is small, he has done a great event. Then It is the success of turning the Tianyu Shensu into seeds and planting it in the area of Lantian. This is not a trivial matter. Why do you say that? Because human beings have grown wild fruits, raw meat or cooked Later we discovered that fish was edible, which increased human food accordingly. Millets, beets, and gourds all existed as supplementary food. Why? Because they are small in number. But we The number of people is constantly increasing, and the tribe is also constantly expanding. However, we can see less and less wild animals and fish. As a result, human food will gradually become a crisis. Everyone is busy every day. What are you busy doing? To put it bluntly, it is because of the mouth that grows on the head! Food is the most important thing for the people! Whoever solves the food problem of mankind has made a great contribution to mankind! Tianyu Shensu The method of planting in patches invented by Xiao Kuikai and Xiao Kuikai will undoubtedly greatly increase the income of corn, and make agricultural crops such as millet, sugar beet, gourd, and corn enter the historical stage of human food at once. I can predict that in In the near future, farming will become the main industry for human production and labor. People say that Xiao Kuikai is not only a child prodigy now, but also a Shennong. This is true. A child prodigy can discover things, but Shennong can do something Things. Kuikai was still so young, it made our Taihao get out of the shackles of planting in farming, and gradually moved towards the development of planting in patches, which is a miracle!" After the names of the prodigy and Shennong were heard, little Kuikai worked harder. While constantly looking for soil suitable for the four crops of corn, millet, sugar beets, and gourds, he also cultivated the millet, sugar beets, and gourds. Into the development of pieces.However, whether it is Chengji, Lantian, Chenzhou, Xinshi, Mengjin or Fushan, there are not many soft soil layers suitable for the development of large areas, and in these areas, high mountains, ravines and hills can be seen everywhere. The trees are also connected one by one. Weeds, firewood, vine branches, and miscellaneous vegetables are all over the hillside and Pingchuan. When will it take to get a decent farmland.In order to solve this problem, Kui Kai thought more than once about how to complete it better and faster. One day, Kui Kai came down from the mountain with many questions in his mind, and wanted to ask his grandmother Nuwa for advice, but when he came to the pottery kilns where Nuwa made pottery, he suddenly saw Nuwa and her potters making large pots. Blocks of tree trunks are filled into the bottom of the pottery kiln.Kui Kui asked Nüwa, "Grandma, why did you put those big trees at the bottom of the kiln?" Nüwa said: "The pottery is made by burning it with fire. If there are some fine weeds under it, the fire will not burn to a certain extent, and the clay pottery will not be turned into pottery." .” Kui Kui asked, "But what happened to those trees?" Nu Wa said: "They first turned into charcoal, and the fire of the charcoal was much more even than that of the trees, and then the charcoal was burnt out, and they turned into ashes." Kui Kai said: "Since the fire can turn trees and weeds into ashes, why should we use stone knives and shovels to cut things on the ground? Why can't we use fire to burn them?" After Kui Kui finished speaking, a red light appeared on his face, and he was very happy in his heart.Nuwa asked, "Kui Kui, what are you talking about?" Kui Kui said: "Grandma, I have found a solution to the trees and weeds on the ground from you." After hearing this, Nuwa became happy, and said: "Kui Kai, you have a great idea. With the method you said, we don't have to work too hard. We just look at the fire and use it to burn, and we can burn it." Burn all the grass, trees, and other attachments on the ground. After burning the ground, only the underground remains, and it is much easier to do." Kui Kui said: "I don't think it's all burned. We need to find places with relatively flat ground and good soil quality to burn, because only by burning in this way can we develop places suitable for growing corn or millet in patches!" Therefore, Shennong Kuikai began to plan to burn the ground with fire.He also went to ask Fuxi, and Fuxi said: "Although the solution you came up with is good, but you have to know one thing, although the attachments on the ground, such as trees and weeds, can be burned by fire, but the fire will not destroy it." But if it burns, can it be controlled? We humans still rely on hunting for food. If the fire burns away all the wild animals, wouldn’t our humans have less food? Have you ever seen the landslide of Qishan volcano? The scene of the fire caused by the fire, in the face of a big fire, it is very difficult for people to get in front of the fire. Fire is sometimes a good thing, but if it is not used well, it is also a bad thing. The fire will destroy everything.” According to Fuxi, Shennong Kuikui finally came up with a good strategy: First, combine the point planting invented by Fuxi in the past with the surface planting he developed in patches.In places suitable for spot planting, we still use the old spot planting method, using methods such as digging holes, smashing holes on the ground with sharp wood, etc., to scatter millet and millet into them, and then brush a layer of soil on top, and it is completed. Second, in places where the soil is good and not prone to fires, set fire to the wasteland in large areas. First, the attachments on the ground will be burned, and then the land will be planed or dug in pieces, and the soil will be loosened. When spring comes and is suitable for farming, sow millet and millet seeds and cover the seeds with soil, and the work of spring patch cultivation is completed; thirdly, in those places that are suitable for patch cultivation but are prone to fire, First use a stone knife or a stone ax to clear away the weeds and trees around the area to be planted in groups to form a isolation zone that the fire cannot pass through, and then set fire to the wasteland.Shennong told Fuxi his mature ideas, and Fuxi said after listening, "Okay! If you do what you say, you will be fine. Your method is called slash-and-burn farming!" The primitive agriculture of slash-and-burn farming invented by Shennong Kuiwei is also called hoe farming. At that time, the farmland was distributed near the village.When the busy season of farming comes, all the members of the clans will go out together. The men will cut down the trees, break through the thorns and thorns, and open up the land, while the women will loosen the soil and prepare the land, dig holes and plant or sow seeds.Children are also auxiliary labor, helping to break up soil, plant seeds, and cover soil.The field management after sowing is mainly undertaken by women, and the elderly and children also participate in some labor within their ability.When the crops are ripe and harvested, it is also carried out by all members of the tribe.At that time, the labor tools were very simple. Polished stone axes or stone picks were used to open the land, stone shovels, stone shovels and short wooden hoes with curved handles were used to loosen the soil, sharp wooden sticks were mainly used for planting, and stone knives or stone knives were used to harvest grain ears. pottery knife.The knife is rectangular, with concave waists on both sides, or a hole in the middle, so that ropes or leather strips can be tied, put on fingers, and used to cut ears of grain.After harvesting in autumn, the villagers store the millet in kilns or houses.Up to now, in the villages of the Wa people in Ximeng and the Nu and Dulong people in the Nu River Basin, the slash-and-burn agricultural production method of our country’s primitive society is still preserved.In Yunnan Province of my country, there is a cross-border ethnic group called the Jingpo ethnic group, which has experienced the evolution from nomadic to gathering to hunting and then to slash-and-burn farming in the process of human development.Some people may ask, this slash-and-burn farming is mainly to set fire to wasteland, will it cause great damage to the natural ecological environment?The national research department specially sent people to study slash-and-burn farming, and the results of the research found that slash-and-burn farming is a mature primitive agricultural technology, which not only does not damage the ecological environment, but also has a protective effect on the ecological environment.It can be seen from this that when Shennong invented slash-and-burn farming, he did not do it casually, but his ideas were extremely mature. With millet and primitive grains such as corn, primitive ancestors such as Shennong had their own agricultural operations.This way, they are able to meet their basic needs with the food they produce.However, whether it is millet or millet, it is not something that can be eaten. Shennong Kuikai invented some simple grain processing tools. For example, when he was listening to Nuwa telling the story of her marriage with Fuxi, Let Nuwa lead him to the pair of stone millstones to watch. As a result, he developed the technology of rice milling, and invented stone mill sticks and stone cakes.People in Taihao put the harvested grains on a stone milling plate, and repeatedly grind them with stone mill sticks or stone cakes to remove the hulls of the grains, and the rest is edible rice grains.They use these rice grains to make porridge, soup or baked rice, which has become a new food for human beings.
The news of the god's millet descending from the sky spread quickly, and people from the tribe all came to the place where Nu Wa lived, to see what the heaven had descended.They also stopped by to see what Xiao Kuikai, who sent the gods down from the sky, looked like.This time, Xiao Kuikai became a child prodigy in the Taihao tribe. People really respected and loved him when they saw him.Even after Fuxi came back and heard about it, he immediately had a new plan.Fuxi said to Nüwa: "I think Kui Kui is not ordinary, especially he has a special sensitivity to plants. I am afraid that this cannot be obtained through hard work. Let's do this, you go and talk to Nv Deng and Chi." God said, we will hand over the management of the fields to Xiao Kuikai in the future, and let Nv Deng and Chi Tian assist him, can we do it?" Nuwa said: "This child is only about ten years old, he is too young!" Fuxi said: "But judging from his understanding of plants, even you and I can't match him." Nuwa said: "It is true. But what will the tribe think about this matter?" Fu Xi said: "In the eyes of the tribe, Kui Kai has become a child prodigy. They wish we could do this!" Therefore, when he was ten years old, Xiao Kuikui became the leading figure in the Taihao tribe's Zhitian, and became the Tulong clan.Although Kui Kai is young, he does not act like a child. The first thing he did was to change the way his mother and daughter planted millet, sugar beets, and gourds, and dig a pit to scatter seeds in it. , changed to large-scale land reclamation, changed dots to planes, and turned the planting of bits and pieces into the development of patches and patches.When Xiao Kuikui said this idea, even Fuxi was taken aback.Fuxi secretly said: It's incredible, although the child is young, his mind and approach are so grand, I can't match it! But the idea is the idea, and when it is actually implemented, there are too many things to face.The biggest thing is: the tools don't work.Stone utensils such as stone shovel, stone shovel and stone pick are okay when they meet some soft weeds, but if they meet trees, tree roots, thicker grass roots and land with stones, it will be over. A tool It folded after a few clicks, and it took longer to get another tool than to dig some weeds. Little Kuikai was a little bit in trouble, but he was not discouraged. He asked Nuwa: "Grandma, I want to plant corn in patches, but now stone shovels, stone shovels, and stone picks are not enough. Do you know what kind of stone shovel, stone pick? Aren't picks and stone shovels bad for weeding and reclaiming land?" Nüwa said: "These stone tools have been developed by people for many years. Up to now, stone tools are still the hardest tools. If these stone tools are not good, it means that the method of planting in patches may not work. .” Little Kuikai came to ask Fuxi again, and Fuxi said: "You have a good idea, but you can't just work hard on improving tools. Tools are not good. We have also grown millet, beets and gourds in the past. Why? This is because of these During the use of fine stone tools, if you encounter something harder than the stone tool, the stone tool will not work, but if you encounter something softer than the stone tool, the stone tool will not break easily, so I think you should start by looking for soft soil. If you find a place like this and use it as a test field this year, if the corn can grow and mature in patches by autumn, it means you are right." Hearing Fuxi's words, Xiao Kuikai wandered around Lantian for a long time, and finally found a piece of soft land. Although it was covered with weeds, but when he dug it down with a stone pick, he couldn't find any stones or thick roots. Let people open an experimental field here, and plant the corn in the spring season. In the autumn of this year, a piece of thick corn grows tall and mature. If the corn is harvested, the harvest is more than that of Tianyushensu People from Taihao, Lantian, Chenzhou, Xinshi, Mengjin and Taihao from Fushan all came to celebrate.From this day on, Xiao Kuikai has another name, Shennong. On the divination platform, Fuxi said to Taihao: "Today, a child prodigy appeared in our Taihao tribe, that is, Nvdeng's child, Xiao Kui Kui. Although Kui Kai is small, he has done a great event. Then It is the success of turning the Tianyu Shensu into seeds and planting it in the area of Lantian. This is not a trivial matter. Why do you say that? Because human beings have grown wild fruits, raw meat or cooked Later we discovered that fish was edible, which increased human food accordingly. Millets, beets, and gourds all existed as supplementary food. Why? Because they are small in number. But we The number of people is constantly increasing, and the tribe is also constantly expanding. However, we can see less and less wild animals and fish. As a result, human food will gradually become a crisis. Everyone is busy every day. What are you busy doing? To put it bluntly, it is because of the mouth that grows on the head! Food is the most important thing for the people! Whoever solves the food problem of mankind has made a great contribution to mankind! Tianyu Shensu The method of planting in patches invented by Xiao Kuikai and Xiao Kuikai will undoubtedly greatly increase the income of corn, and make agricultural crops such as millet, sugar beet, gourd, and corn enter the historical stage of human food at once. I can predict that in In the near future, farming will become the main industry for human production and labor. People say that Xiao Kuikai is not only a child prodigy now, but also a Shennong. This is true. A child prodigy can discover things, but Shennong can do something Things. Kuikai was still so young, it made our Taihao get out of the shackles of planting in farming, and gradually moved towards the development of planting in patches, which is a miracle!" After the names of the prodigy and Shennong were heard, little Kuikai worked harder. While constantly looking for soil suitable for the four crops of corn, millet, sugar beets, and gourds, he also cultivated the millet, sugar beets, and gourds. Into the development of pieces.However, whether it is Chengji, Lantian, Chenzhou, Xinshi, Mengjin or Fushan, there are not many soft soil layers suitable for the development of large areas, and in these areas, high mountains, ravines and hills can be seen everywhere. The trees are also connected one by one. Weeds, firewood, vine branches, and miscellaneous vegetables are all over the hillside and Pingchuan. When will it take to get a decent farmland.In order to solve this problem, Kui Kai thought more than once about how to complete it better and faster. One day, Kui Kai came down from the mountain with many questions in his mind, and wanted to ask his grandmother Nuwa for advice, but when he came to the pottery kilns where Nuwa made pottery, he suddenly saw Nuwa and her potters making large pots. Blocks of tree trunks are filled into the bottom of the pottery kiln.Kui Kui asked Nüwa, "Grandma, why did you put those big trees at the bottom of the kiln?" Nüwa said: "The pottery is made by burning it with fire. If there are some fine weeds under it, the fire will not burn to a certain extent, and the clay pottery will not be turned into pottery." .” Kui Kui asked, "But what happened to those trees?" Nu Wa said: "They first turned into charcoal, and the fire of the charcoal was much more even than that of the trees, and then the charcoal was burnt out, and they turned into ashes." Kui Kai said: "Since the fire can turn trees and weeds into ashes, why should we use stone knives and shovels to cut things on the ground? Why can't we use fire to burn them?" After Kui Kui finished speaking, a red light appeared on his face, and he was very happy in his heart.Nuwa asked, "Kui Kui, what are you talking about?" Kui Kui said: "Grandma, I have found a solution to the trees and weeds on the ground from you." After hearing this, Nuwa became happy, and said: "Kui Kai, you have a great idea. With the method you said, we don't have to work too hard. We just look at the fire and use it to burn, and we can burn it." Burn all the grass, trees, and other attachments on the ground. After burning the ground, only the underground remains, and it is much easier to do." Kui Kui said: "I don't think it's all burned. We need to find places with relatively flat ground and good soil quality to burn, because only by burning in this way can we develop places suitable for growing corn or millet in patches!" Therefore, Shennong Kuikai began to plan to burn the ground with fire.He also went to ask Fuxi, and Fuxi said: "Although the solution you came up with is good, but you have to know one thing, although the attachments on the ground, such as trees and weeds, can be burned by fire, but the fire will not destroy it." But if it burns, can it be controlled? We humans still rely on hunting for food. If the fire burns away all the wild animals, wouldn’t our humans have less food? Have you ever seen the landslide of Qishan volcano? The scene of the fire caused by the fire, in the face of a big fire, it is very difficult for people to get in front of the fire. Fire is sometimes a good thing, but if it is not used well, it is also a bad thing. The fire will destroy everything.” According to Fuxi, Shennong Kuikui finally came up with a good strategy: First, combine the point planting invented by Fuxi in the past with the surface planting he developed in patches.In places suitable for spot planting, we still use the old spot planting method, using methods such as digging holes, smashing holes on the ground with sharp wood, etc., to scatter millet and millet into them, and then brush a layer of soil on top, and it is completed. Second, in places where the soil is good and not prone to fires, set fire to the wasteland in large areas. First, the attachments on the ground will be burned, and then the land will be planed or dug in pieces, and the soil will be loosened. When spring comes and is suitable for farming, sow millet and millet seeds and cover the seeds with soil, and the work of spring patch cultivation is completed; thirdly, in those places that are suitable for patch cultivation but are prone to fire, First use a stone knife or a stone ax to clear away the weeds and trees around the area to be planted in groups to form a isolation zone that the fire cannot pass through, and then set fire to the wasteland.Shennong told Fuxi his mature ideas, and Fuxi said after listening, "Okay! If you do what you say, you will be fine. Your method is called slash-and-burn farming!" The primitive agriculture of slash-and-burn farming invented by Shennong Kuiwei is also called hoe farming. At that time, the farmland was distributed near the village.When the busy season of farming comes, all the members of the clans will go out together. The men will cut down the trees, break through the thorns and thorns, and open up the land, while the women will loosen the soil and prepare the land, dig holes and plant or sow seeds.Children are also auxiliary labor, helping to break up soil, plant seeds, and cover soil.The field management after sowing is mainly undertaken by women, and the elderly and children also participate in some labor within their ability.When the crops are ripe and harvested, it is also carried out by all members of the tribe.At that time, the labor tools were very simple. Polished stone axes or stone picks were used to open the land, stone shovels, stone shovels and short wooden hoes with curved handles were used to loosen the soil, sharp wooden sticks were mainly used for planting, and stone knives or stone knives were used to harvest grain ears. pottery knife.The knife is rectangular, with concave waists on both sides, or a hole in the middle, so that ropes or leather strips can be tied, put on fingers, and used to cut ears of grain.After harvesting in autumn, the villagers store the millet in kilns or houses.Up to now, in the villages of the Wa people in Ximeng and the Nu and Dulong people in the Nu River Basin, the slash-and-burn agricultural production method of our country’s primitive society is still preserved.In Yunnan Province of my country, there is a cross-border ethnic group called the Jingpo ethnic group, which has experienced the evolution from nomadic to gathering to hunting and then to slash-and-burn farming in the process of human development.Some people may ask, this slash-and-burn farming is mainly to set fire to wasteland, will it cause great damage to the natural ecological environment?The national research department specially sent people to study slash-and-burn farming, and the results of the research found that slash-and-burn farming is a mature primitive agricultural technology, which not only does not damage the ecological environment, but also has a protective effect on the ecological environment.It can be seen from this that when Shennong invented slash-and-burn farming, he did not do it casually, but his ideas were extremely mature. With millet and primitive grains such as corn, primitive ancestors such as Shennong had their own agricultural operations.This way, they are able to meet their basic needs with the food they produce.However, whether it is millet or millet, it is not something that can be eaten. Shennong Kuikai invented some simple grain processing tools. For example, when he was listening to Nuwa telling the story of her marriage with Fuxi, Let Nuwa lead him to the pair of stone millstones to watch. As a result, he developed the technology of rice milling, and invented stone mill sticks and stone cakes.People in Taihao put the harvested grains on a stone milling plate, and repeatedly grind them with stone mill sticks or stone cakes to remove the hulls of the grains, and the rest is edible rice grains.They use these rice grains to make porridge, soup or baked rice, which has become a new food for human beings.