Crops Planted In My Village

The crops planted in my village were wheat, corn, Chinese sorghum, soybeans, cotton, mung beans, sweet potatoes and garden peas.

Wheat was planted in the early winter and harvested at the end of May the next year.

When it was the season of harvesting wheat, the weather was pretty good because this was at the end of spring and the beginning of summer.

In order to harvest wheat, people would make a “threshing ground”, an even area for threshing wheat without any gaps on the ground.

It was also the place where we children liked to play and sleep at night.

Corn was planted at the beginning of summer-after harvesting wheat, and was harvested in autumn.

Corn stalks were sweet, so eating the corn stalks was an enjoyable activity for us kids.

We were scared whenever we passed by a field of Chinese sorghum as we were afraid that some bad guys would come out to hurt us.

During the growth of the sorghum, farmers needed to go inside the sorghum field to strip its old leaves.

It was very hot inside the fields, so this kind of farm work was extremely tough.

There were two times for planting sweet potatoes: spring and early summer, but the potatoes were both harvested in autumn, just at different times.

After the sweet potatoes were harvested, we children liked to go to the fields to dig up the remaining sweet potatoes.

We would bake the potatoes on the field-not only for fun, but also for satisfying our hunger.

People planted cotton in spring, but I was sure that it was harvested in autumn.

Soybeans were planted after harvesting wheat and were also harvested in autumn.

There was an insect that lived by eating soybean leaves called katydid.

People liked to capture it and put it in a cage made of sorghum stems to play with.

Well, it seems that this is enough for this journal.

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Crops Planted In My Village

The crops planted in my village were wheat, corn, Chinese sorghum, soybeans, cotton, mung beans, sweet potatoes and garden peas.

In order to harvest wheat, people would make a “threshing ground”, an even area for threshing wheat without any gaps on the ground.

It was also the place where we children liked to play and sleep at night.

Corn stalks were sweet, so eating the corn stalks was an enjoyable activity for us kids.

We were scared whenever we passed by a field of Chinese sorghum as we were afraid that some bad guys would come out to hurt us.

During the growth of the sorghum, farmers needed to go inside the sorghum field to strip its old leaves.

It was very hot inside the fields, so this kind of farm work was extremely tough.

After the sweet potatoes were harvested, we children liked to go to the fields to dig up the remaining sweet potatoes.

One thing we children were excited about was watching adults capture hares in the cotton fields, where hares liked to stay the most.

There was an insect that lived by eating soybean leaves called katydid.

I’ve never had a chance to keep a katydid, but I did play “torch-waving”-a game of waving a bundle of burning soybean straw at night, and eat roasted soybeans in the field.