We bargained, him and I, and here we are: stores, brandy, block-house, the firewood you was thoughtful enough to cut, and, in a manner of speaking, the whole blessed boat, from cross-trees to kelson .
The water and the availability of raw materials in the area, like minerals and iron ore, and also the abundance of local fuels, like coal and firewood, all made this site suitable for industry from a very early time.
Women do things they'd like to do in the home like raise their children but they also are saddled with doing all kinds of chores whether it's cleaning dishes or collecting firewood or going and collecting water.
So some people believed that eventually this firewood changing practice was combined with the commemoration of Jie Zitui and developed into the Cold Food Festival.
We could just try it and use it as firewood because we didn't know any other way to use it, but now we use it to make products like shoes, belts, jackets, bags, and so on.
Some scenes that may be unfamiliar for urbanites, such as washing clothes in the river, cutting firewood in the mountains and digging cellars, are still common for some elderly people in this village, Zhang says.