农具是人类适应生态环境的结果。近代瑶族由于处于刀耕火种原始农业向精耕细作农业转化阶段,从汉壮地区引入不少铁农具和农作物品种,耕作效率和粮食产量获得一定的提高。既有较为原始刀耕火种的生产方式,但也采用牛犁与人犁,其农耕技术和农具带有其自身特点。瑶族农具及其使用习俗蕴含着丰富的社会信息,它被内化为村落社会生活的一部分,展现并生成着一系列社会关系。 Farm implements are the result of human adaptation to the ecological environment. In modern times, due to the slash-and-burn primitive farming to intensive farming transformation stage, the Yao nationality introduced a number of iron tools and crop varieties from the Hanzhuang area, and the farming efficiency and grain yield increased to some extent. Both the more primitive slash and burn production methods, but also the use of plow and man plow, its farming techniques and tools with its own characteristics. Yao implements and their practices contain a wealth of social information, which is internalized as part of the village’s social life, showing and generating a series of social relations.