Binding the rice.

Binding the rice. ,
originally uploaded by dan_mueller20.

Now, it is rice transplanting time in Anshun. People have used huge fire hoses to fill their fields with water and planted rice very closely together and now it is about this tall and time to transplant it into smaller fields and farther apart. They will first pull it out, bind it, and then carry it in baskets to the new fields and plant it in small clumps. Often the women are pulling the rice up while the men are plowing and dragging the other fields to get them prepared. It is a busy time with all of the farmers in the fields or helping each other.