Words: Ploughshare is a kind of agricultural equipment, which is usually used for agricultural work such as land reclamation, sand turning and deep ploughing. However, in some areas of China, plowshare is also used for special sacrificial activities. According to traditional customs, ancestral graves are places where ancestors are sacrificed, and people will burn incense and pray in front of them to show their respect. In some areas, people will put plowshares in front of their ancestral graves, hoping that their ancestors will bless the harvest of crops and the prosperity of their families.
Words: As a sacrificial tool for ancestral graves, plowshare has certain cultural background and significance. In the farming era, farmers in China regard plowshare as a sharp weapon of crops, and the process of breaking ground to raise seedlings and sublimation and internalization is similar to the thought and way of sacrifice. Therefore, putting the plow in front of the ancestral grave is an expression of gratitude to the ancestors, and it is also a kind of cultural inheritance and the transmission of values.