Happy to see that pulling up seedlings no longer needs bending the waist

喜看拔秧不弯腰
Xikan bayang bu wanyao
Happy to see that pulling up seedlings no longer needs bending the waist
early 1970s
Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社)
53x77 cm.
BG E13/58

For centuries, rice cultivation was manual labor. Farmers had to stand in the water, bent over, to plant look after the rice seedlings. Mechanization brings this to an end.

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