1. The shovel is a kind of agricultural product that can be used for farming and shoveling soil; its long handle is mostly made of wood, and its head is made of iron, which can also be used for military industry. The more commonly used types of shovels are pointed shovels and square shovels.
2. The shovel also has the function of farming, and there are different sizes. The large size is usually used for shoveling coal, the medium size is used for digging, and the small size is used for many purposes, such as digging holes, throwing clods (leverage), and some are used for tomb robbery.
3. The shovel is an agricultural product, and the shovel is a weapon. In the Water Margin, the weapon used by Lu Zongwang is a shovel.
Shovel: A flat, rectangular, semicircular-pointed tool suitable for stepping into the ground and digging soil. It is a hand tool consisting of a wide bucket or a slightly concave shovel body in the middle with a flat handle. It can be dug by hand. Or throw objects (such as soil, coal, grain).
Shovel: A shovel has shoulders. The shovel is a kind of in-line plowing agricultural product. The earliest known shovels are made of wood, and wooden shovels have been excavated from the Hemudu site in Yuyao, Ningbo. The shovels unearthed in the Neolithic Age are mostly made of stone, and there are also a little bone. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, there was a bronze shovel with a square shovel in the middle of the shoulder, which could be used for inserting the handle. There were shovels in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the shovels were more extensive in the Warring States Period. Most of the pottery figurines carrying shovels were unearthed from Han Dynasty tombs in Sichuan Province. The shoulders of the shovel are broad and flat, similar to the shape of modern shovels.
