Abstract: Brooms facilitate household cleaning, and it is not difficult to make a broom by hand. Tie the raw firewood into small handfuls, tie five small handfuls together, tie them tightly with tape or mountain rattan, and then tie them tightly with moso bamboo needles to complete the production. Below we also introduce to you the making methods of sorghum brooms and Feng Shui brooms. The making methods and processes are similar. Let us learn about the making of brooms together! 1. How to make brooms
There are many kinds of brooms in rural areas. Generally, farmers use local materials, collect discarded firewood on the mountain, and tie it up with ganten to make a broom. The production process is as follows:
1. Arrange the raw materials neatly, first tie a small handful, and then tie the 5 small handfuls into a big broom. Friends who have carefully observed brooms will find that all brooms are composed of 5 small handles. When bundling, first take a broom handle, one meter or eighty centimeters, which must be smooth and not tied to the hand, and the bottom part must be bent with fire to facilitate bundling.
2. Place a small handful of bamboo silk on the elbow and tie it tightly with tape or mountain rattan. Roll it four to five times, then put a small handful on it and roll the tape four to five times. Repeat five times. tie.
3. Finally, use a moso bamboo needle to tighten it, and a broom is completed.
The main varieties of brooms are: bamboo brooms, miso brooms, gold brooms, brown brooms, sorghum brooms, etc. The following is a brief introduction to the production process of sorghum brooms.
2. Production of sorghum broom
Process flow: select materials--break off the seeds--remove the sheaths--after sorting, lay them flat on the ground--press until soft--dust Moisten with water - tie and tighten - remove the husks - sulfur fumigation - finished product.
1. Material selection. The main raw material is sorghum ears. The loose ears of sorghum millet are used to tie the small or large ends of the broom. The seeds are smashed cleanly, and the leaf sheaths and the knots under the arrow shafts are removed. Then the middle loose ears are tied with the broom to straighten the ears ( Separate the millet with a hard core in the middle, pick out the middle and loose millet, and use it as the outer skin when tying the broom, and use the straight millet as the skeleton.
2. Use a hand knife to break the selected medium-loose arrow stalks for outer skin into two halves. Cut off the straight stalks of the arrows that are to be used as broom cores from the root of the heads. The cut arrow stalks can be reserved for string coverings, and the middle of the broom handle can be filled with ordinary straw. Then spread the prepared millet flatly on the hard ground and crush it with a stone roller until it is soft. Then moisten the millet with water (put the millet in a tank filled with water or dust it with water). The moistening time is about 1 hour.
3. Prepare tools for tying brooms. To make a broom, you need 0.5 kilograms of millet and 700 grams of iron wire. Take an oiled steel wire rope four meters long and 3 to 5 mm thick, tie one end to a foot or door frame in the house, and tie the other end to the middle of the walking pole. One end of the back of the walking pole is tied with a rubber strip 7-10 cm wide and 80-90 cm long. The other end is connected to one end of the walking pole with a hook that can be hung or removed. When tying the broom, tie the walking belt around your waist, take 3 to 4 core millet stalks, and then take 4 skin millet broom handles, clamp one to make straw, tighten it with oiled steel wire, and press into No. 22-25 Tie the first pass with iron wire, and wrap the iron broom wire twice around each pass. In the second course, take 4 pieces of core millet, 2 pieces of skin millet, and 1 piece of rice straw, and continue after the first course. The method of stretching is the same as that of the first course. The third and fourth paths are the same as above. In the fifth and final step, take 4 pieces of bark millet, 1 piece of rice straw, add four pieces of bark millet to each side, and make two circles, and then make a line every 3 to 5 centimeters upwards. ***Le 15~17.
4. If you use a scraper to scrape the tied broom, the husk will fall off. In order to make it bright, white and not moldy, it needs to be fumigated and sterilized with sulfur. The method is to dig a pit half a meter deep on the ground, put a piece of sulfur in a bowl or an iron box, use wooden sticks and other racks on the pit, and brooms placed crosswise on the racks. The number can be more than a hundred. Cover it with a plastic sheet, ignite the sulfur, and fumigate it for about an hour before selling it.
3. Making a Feng Shui broom
(1). Buy a new bamboo or brown broom (broom made of plants), and use new red thread , wrap nine times around the handle of the broom and tie it up.
(2) Take a new broom, hold it on the broom handle with a red thread, and sweep it in the air one by one from inside and outside from back to front. When you reach the window or door, , thinking or chanting: "Sweep away the bad luck, the bad luck will go out, and all the troubles will be swept away", or chanting: "Sweep away the bad luck, the poor ghosts will go out, and the evil and evil ghosts will be swept away."
(3). When you feel unlucky, stuck, or have bad luck, you can do this to get rid of the bad luck. However, you must buy a new broom and red thread every time you do it. In addition, under normal circumstances, this method is also used to seek good luck and avoid bad luck during year-end cleaning.
(4). After sweeping, the broom can be used to sweep the floor normally, and the red string tied with it can also be removed. In addition, if the family often has nightmares at night, the broom can be placed upside down in the bedroom. On the door, put it up against the door to eliminate nightmares. It is also important to remember that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, this broom must be kept away from being seen, and it must not be swept on the same day to avoid it being unlucky.
(5) If your husband is not in good luck or your work is not good, please use the broom to sweep especially in the northwest; if your wife or family is not in good luck, please use the broom to sweep especially in the southwest; When a couple is at odds or has a marital crisis, please use a broom to sweep them under the bed; if you are poor, please use a broom to sweep the "poor people" out of the door.