The Irrigation Professional, or the Chain Pump
It it an ancient tool used to clear water. Chain pumps had directed water towards the major cities during the Han Dynasty. There were other devices that directed water from rivers, creeks, and lakes into cities during the Han Dynasty, but those inventions were described more vaguely and we could not salvage any other irrigation devices other than the chain pump alone. Chain pumps and siphons were described by Pi Lan, as "saving the expense incurred by the common people" (incurred: - to become unpleasant as a result of their own actions).
- The Han Dynasty created many, very useful tools to help produce more farming and agriculture.
- The Han Dynasty worked through all farming problems by inventing a better way to farm.
- The Han Dynasty worked very, very well with farming and agricultural inventions.
The Machine That Pummeled Grain, It's The Trip Hammer!
The trip hammer was a pounding device that decorated grain. Decorating is to peel or rind something, such as opening a peanut shell or skinning a grape. The trip hammer proved to be about ten times more efficient than the simple pestle and mortar, which were earlier projects that had decorticated the grain.
The Seed Drill
Before the seed drill was invented, people had usually thrown seeds by hand into their fields. This proved to be inefficient due to the fact that many other the seeds were not able to germinate (Germinate is when a seed begins to grow or shoot out after a long period of dormancy) because of a combination of natural elements or animal interference. Natural elements may have included rain, wind, or some being wind and water combined as a whole new kind of weather, which was weather that was similar to a flood.
Pit Cultivation, the way the Poor Farmer Worked
Pit Cultivation was another amazing feat of the Han Dynasty. It was an alternative for the poor farming families. It requires only a little amount of low quality land, and was able to be used on steep slopes where many other conventional farming methods would be impossible to do. Pit cultivation may actually have existed since the third century BC, since pit cultivation was described to be very similar to the description of a agricultural pit-based farming method described by Lushi Chunqiu.