[Explanation] China is a large agricultural country, and the farming process is like a thick and heavy song from ancient times. With the development and penetration of modern civilization, the ancient farming culture gradually withdrew from the stage of history and faded out of sight of the people. But for Chengdu citizen Zhang Chaogen, the childhood farming memories are still vivid. Recently, Zhang Chaogen used the agricultural tools he had collected for many years to reproduce the lively scene of working in the field on the door of the shop along Yangtze Street in Huayang Street, Tianfu New District, Chengdu.
Wooden poles, Yangma, Beizhu... There are some "suffering vicissitudes" agricultural tools hanging on the door of the shop facing the street along Yangtze Street, and there are corresponding introductions next to the agricultural tools. It is understood that the agricultural tools on display are only a part of Zhang Chaogen's 10,000 collections. As a self-made farmer, after his success in his career, Zhang Chaogen began a collection road for more than 20 years because he still couldn't let his childhood love for farming equipment.
[Same period] Chengdu citizen Zhang Chaogen
I am the son of a farmer, because when I was a kid at home, there were few hoe (etc.) farm tools. Even without large-scale agricultural tools, I have a unique feeling for farming culture, and I want to cherish them. In the end, when I received more, I thought about doing this as a project.
【Explanation】Except for the agricultural tools being exhibited and the large number of agricultural tools stored in suburban warehouses, the representative “collections” collected by Zhang Chaogen are stored in a furniture warehouse in Hechi Community, Yixin Street, Shuangliu District . Thousands of farm tools familiar to the older generation are neatly arranged in the warehouse of about 8 acres.
[Same period] Chengdu citizen Zhang Chaogen
There are roughly four types of things I collect. The first type of farming tools is wood products, such as wind mills, buckets, plows, which are wood products; there is also bamboo products, bamboo products are baskets, fish baskets and other things are bamboo products; and pottery Products, so many pottery products such as jars and jars; stone products are stone pits, pig troughs and mills in rural areas, which should be divided into four categories.
[Explanation] Among the many collections, Zhang Zhaogen is most impressed by a farm tool called Leizi. He introduced that the farming tool came from a small village in Yunnan and has been used for more than 2,000 years. In addition to agricultural tools, Zhang Chaogen also collected many old objects with a sense of age, and even the house numbers of rural houses. For more than 20 years, Zhang Chaogen has traveled to cities, counties (districts) around Chengdu, and has also traveled to minority villages in Yunnan and Guizhou. With the increase in the types and quantity of "collections", Zhang Chaogen also slowly had a new plan.
[Same period] Chengdu citizen Zhang Chaogen
I just want to make this matter better and bigger, I want to travel all over the country to collect this kind of farming furniture of more than fifty (56) ethnic groups of our Chinese nation. I want to run a large-scale farming exhibition and expo garden, and want to present it to the society, let our "sleeping" farming furniture for many years, serve the society, let our children and grandchildren know it, learn it, understand It will be passed down to carry forward the five thousand years of farming culture history of our Chinese nation.
Yang Yubin reports from Chengdu, Sichuan
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]