Rice

The Quickest Rice Ever!

Farmer 1: " I need more money!"

Farmer 2: " You think you've got it hard? I just had another kid!"

Farmer 1: " Well at least rice is more valuable now in the year of the rooster!"

Farmer 2: " And last year Farmer 6 made those tools! The chain with paddles which allows water to transferred among levels, the harrow which is like a garden hoe, and the rice plough."

Farmer 3: " Did you guys hear about the new rice? It grows three times faster than normal rice so every year we can have enough to eat and enough to sell and make good money!"

Farmer 1+2 : "cool!"

Farmer 3 : "They found this out from France! They knew we eat a lot of rice and they have inventors over there that changed the rice by mixing the rice plant with the jasmine plant and it grew quicker!"

Narrator: " In the next few years almost all farmers switched to the jasmine rice and rice prices went down."

1. How Big Was It? How long was the journey from far north to far south in the Tang Dynasty? 2. The Great Migration of the Tang Dynasty. What did they mean when saying, “ better luck next life!”? 3. The Quickest Rice Ever! What were the tree tools invented “Farmer 6”?

Back To IndexThis is an actual picture of the quick growing rice mentioned in this play.