Brief talk on sickle

Sickle is a farm tool for harvesting crops and mowing grass in rural areas. It is composed of blades and wooden handles. Some blades have small serrations. It is generally used to harvest wheat and rice. It is also widely used in rural areas.

Sickle type
▪ Narrow fan sickle
▪ Wide fan sickle
▪ Crescent sickle
▪ Sickle

Essential information
Chinese name: sickle, foreign name sickle
Attribute agricultural tools
Harvesting crops
Commonly known as cutter
Scope of use: Rural Areas

The sickle, commonly known as the cutter, is crescent shaped, with oblique fine serrations at the edge and a wooden handle at the end, which is used to harvest rice and wheat. Influenced by the sickle in Northern Jiangsu and Shandong in the 1950s, the knife body and handle were slightly lengthened, which is one of the common tools for harvesting today.

Sickle is a farm tool for harvesting crops and mowing grass in rural areas. It is composed of blades and wooden handles. Some blades have small serrations, which are generally used to harvest rice. It is also widely used in some rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River.

In most communist countries, as a symbol of farmers, it is painted on the party flag (emblem) or national flag (emblem) (exceptions include the sickle painted by the North Korean workers' Party [3], and the chopper painted by the national flag of Angola). [1]

Sickle in the west, people often call the curved sword sickle. In Greek mythology, the God Cronus cut off the genitalia of his father's primitive God Uranus with a sickle. Later, the former was defeated by the lightning of his son Zeus, deposed and exiled. The sickle has always been the symbol of Cronus (Latin Saturn, that is, Saturn). He was regarded as the God of fertility before ancient Greece. Later, people confused his name with the incarnation of time, chronus. Therefore, the image of Cronus holding the sickle (or long sickle) became a symbol of the passage of time. In this sense, the sickle became a symbol of death, It is natural that death "chooses" it as a weapon.