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　　When I was a child, it was the most common thing to insert dummies in rural rice fields. At first, I felt very scared. I often saw several scarecrows in rags, straw hats, scarves or skirts, standing in the rice fields and dancing with the wind, and I felt scared to cry. Every time I pass those dummies, I walk with my head down and even trot faster, for fear that it will fly and take me away at once. Because they are much like witches and wizards in the book. Later, my little secret was discovered by my grandmother. She kept laughing and said, Silly children, these dummies are made of old clothes, trousers and hats at home, in order to prevent birds from stealing rice, and people have no time to keep them, so they are made dummies to scare birds.

　　Later, I finally stopped being afraid and enjoyed the dummy more and more. I will compare who is beautiful and who is ugly, and I will imagine that the coat owner on the dummy should look good in a coat, so why not waste more! Later, people stopped being fake people, but I still miss the dummies of those years, which brought me little childhood fun.

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　　Why do you want to insert a dummy in the rice field? In fact, it is a long-standing habit to insert a dummy in the field. I think the most important function is to play a deterrent role, drive away birds and animals and protect crops.

　　Inserting dummy in rice field is the most commonly used method to drive away birds that steal food. Every year when sowing and harvesting, there will always be a lot of birds that steal food and fly around, but they can't be helped. They can't stay in the field 24 hours a day, so our ancestors came up with this method, which is still in use today. Every spring, I will take my wife and son to the rice field and vegetable garden to be fake people.

　　In our village, bamboo is generally used as a dummy. Two very simple bamboos are made into a cross. The key point is that the clothes worn by the dummy must be very bright and conspicuous. So every year, I ask my wife to donate the clothes she doesn't wear, and directly put them on a dummy with a sense of style. Finally, I will add a coconut shell or plastic bag at the top to ensure that you can see them from a distance!

　　Decorate the environment

　　In addition to the function of driving away birds handed down from the old days, today's rice field dummies have another function, that is, to decorate the rural environment. Because they have been used for a long time, these animals and birds are not afraid of dummies, but instead use dummies as rest stops. Moreover, there are fewer and fewer small animals in the countryside, even fewer sparrows, so now the dummy has derived this embellishment.

　　In order to do business, many rural people set up farmhouses in their villages, and then inserted many distinctive scarecrows into the farmland, which made people look very distinctive and artistic from a distance and played a role in attracting guests. If nothing else, let's say that the colorful scarecrow is a unique scenery in the large field at the entrance of my village. Every spring and autumn, many people take their children back to the village to play.

　　Generally speaking, the dummies in rice fields not only have the practical function of driving away birds and animals, but also have the ornamental function of embellishing the environment.

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　　Now that rice has been harvested, farmers are the busiest time. They are busy grabbing rice, and farmers want to grab rice and go home at the first time.

　　The south is the main rice planting area, which also benefits from the high temperature, high humidity and sufficient rain in the south, which are the preconditions for planting rice. The rice in my house was harvested a few days ago. It's really hard for farmers. It's just that the rice in several fields is tired and backache. The weather is hot and can't be delayed. When it's ripe, it's necessary to take it back. We go to cut rice after four o'clock every morning, and it is still slightly bright. We sweat in the fields by moonlight.

　　It's mainly dawn to cut rice so early, it's too hot, it's cooler in the early morning, and you have enough energy to do things and move faster. When the sun comes out at dawn, the task of cutting rice on that day is almost finished. After the sun came out, we exposed the cut rice, and we waited until the afternoon to bundle it. The moisture in the rice was dried and it was much lighter, so it was lighter when we picked it.

　　Why do people have holidays in rice fields?

　　Dummies in rice fields, commonly known as "scarecrows", are also the casual masterpieces of farmers. A simple waste utilization can solve the dilemma of rice being eaten by birds. People in rural areas know that sparrows eat the most rice, and these sparrows are all in groups. Sometimes, thousands of sparrows in the whole group fly to the rice fields in dark, and they begin to eat rice. How much rice has been wasted after this trip? At first, some people went to chase sparrows, and sparrows began to fight with others. Over time, scarecrows replaced real people, but sparrows were still sparrows.

　　Some farmers surround the rice fields with reflective strips, and the wind blows the reflective strips to move, so sparrows are very sensitive to light and dare not come down to steal food.

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　　Inserting dummies in rice fields was the main means to prevent birds in rural fields in the past, which reminded people from our time of their beautiful childhood and missed the ecologically safe rural environment in the past.

　　Now, when I go to the countryside, there are not many birds. Because of the low yield and the exhaustion of water sources in my hometown, I can no longer see the green or golden paddy fields, let alone the dummies in the fields.

　　If people can really cross over, I really want to cross over to the past and return to my hometown where rice is golden, dummies are everywhere and birds are flying.

　　Speaking of this problem, I think of the scene in the countryside when I was a child. Every time I came home from school, I saw dummies in the dry rice fields.

　　1. Dummies are mainly made of straw, and then put on their bodies with old clothes from home, and wear straw hats on their heads when farming in the countryside. Generally, you will see a branch with a red plastic bag tied on it, which looks like real people in the field.

　　2. There will be some bugs in the rice field itself, and there are many birds in the countryside. Birds like to eat rice. The main reason for inserting dummies in the rice field is to catch birds, for fear that birds will eat the newly grown rice. At the same time, this dummy is also testing the bird's heart. Normal birds will leave far away when they see it. The common name of this bird is water camel, which is a medium-sized wading bird. It is 30 to 40 centimeters long and its neck is short. Its feathers are yellowish brown, the male's head and neck are brown, and the top of his head is black. The female has brown stripes on her head, neck and chest, and almost all her young birds have brown stripes. It mainly lives in the open waters rich in waterside plants in plains and low mountains and hills.

　　Here I want to say that farmers have to pay a lot if they want to have a good harvest. In the early stage, seedlings should be planted, and insects should be treated later. They are afraid that there will be more insects and no rice. When there is rice, they should find ways to prevent birds from eating it. When I see the invitation to answer these questions, I will miss my childhood life in the countryside.