Tuesday, September 1, 2009

THRASHING OF WHEAT AND BARLEY

In The older days when there were no roads and transport system or other useful machine were not present in hunza then people used to complete their tasks by their own means.so in these days traditional thrashing of wheat and barley were amongst the known tasks which thing performed by Cows.
the proceduce through which wheat and barley were being thrashing was that (8 - 10)cows were being knot together with arop
in a large field where there was possibility of making around and a circle type place in which firstly field was being watered and with the help of this water the round or circle type field was made very hard and the circle was made hard with the help of human foot.
this circle type field is being left for few daysto make it dry, this is beig called in broshaski languge as "darch" then when it is being dreed from water then bales of wheat and barley were being put in to the round field and 8-10 cows were teied together and among 8-10 cows there was a single cow which was being tied with its leg, this was done because all the remoining cows were hold around this cow called "chindis", cow which moves other cows around him.Behind these cows a man or a women taking a tin in hand for the purpose of shit beig excreted by cows.this excrstion was being hold in tin because when this excretion fell on to wheat then the wheat was mixed with shit of cow ,so for the purpose to keep clean the wheat and man behind was important to clean the excretion and to accerate cows.
this process was bein done all the day till when wheat was totally thrashed and beig thrased into picess.
At last the wheat was being collect in the middle of round shoped field (darch) and 6-8 man get together to perform work to seperete wheat and its pices.this task was done with fork shaped wooden blade called as "Haranch".
At last when single pice of wheat was being seperated the seperated work was being done.and then the wheat was put in to bags and, so this is the thrashing systam in old time in hunza.

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