#rice fields

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same place different season

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My heart yearns to return back to Japan

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" Munnar " // © Aneesh K K

Music: © aneesh_nilavu - Aneesh_Nilavu (Kadhalar dhinam)

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A group of weeders standing in a rice field in Amposta (Terres de l'Ebre, Catalonia). I couldn't find the date but it's most likely from the 1920s-1940s. Photo from Museu de les Terres de l'Ebre.

This photo is interesting because it shows the traditional clothes that women from the Ebro Delta wore until the 20th century. It's very different from the image most people think of when we imagine "traditional women's clothes". The truth is that many countries (including ours when it comes to the pubilla and hereu outfit) fixed their "national costume" in the early 1900s, taking the upper class formal clothes as "the traditional clothes". However, that is not representative of the country in general, particularly of the working classes, nor of the many local variations that are always found around a country.

These weeders are wearing saragüells, which are a kind of tight-fitting trousers made of a light material that can dry easily. On top of this trousers, they wore a skirt that they rolled up to their waist. The reason behind this being the usual work clothes for women in the Ebro Delta area is because it's an area where, since 1860, most people worked in the agriculture of rice. Rice is grown in water, so they worked with their feet and lower part of legs in the water. (Ah, and by the way, yes, of course most women historically worked outside of the home, too.)

Now, here's why I find this interesting: the various dictatorships of Spain who called themselves "traditionalist" (Primo de Rivera's and Franco's) and their followers for many years forbid women from wearing trousers in many ambits or raged against women in trousers for being immoral. How is it possible that "traditionalists" said that, when there are traditional/historical clothes for women that include trousers? Don't "traditionalists" stand for keeping traditions? Well, let's hear the words of one of the movement's founders:

“For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.” Julius Evola, Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist.

This was said by Julius Evola (1898-1974), one of the ideologues of traditionalism. What he's saying here is that the point of traditionalism is not to be faithful to what the past or the tradition really was like; the point of traditionalism is to have some a priori beliefs and then look back in history and cherry-pick some places where that was the case. History is long and includes millennia of different cultures, you're bound to find pretty much everything at some point, and easily those ideas that have been the status quo in the immediate previous years (which is what they defend). This is why traditionalists defend that European powers are the heirs of Imperial Rome and have claims on other countries as such, but consider things that were completely normal in Ancient Roman culture (homosexuality, multi-racial cities, racial mixing) are not part of what they defend. It was never about following a real tradition or history, that was just an excuse.

These so-called "traditionalist" governments also pick one singular culture from the whole area instead of allowing each area to continue their traditional way of life. In the case of the Spanish dictatorships, exterminating the traditional customs, languages and cultural elements of the nations whose land Spain occupies (Catalans, Basques, Galicians, Aranese...) was a priority. They banned the languages, holidays, songs, and more. At the same time, they imposed one singular language (Spanish), religion (Catholicism), and the holidays, traditions (like bull-fighting), music, etc. of the Spanish with an emphasis on folklore from Andalusia (Southern Spain).

As a historian, it saddens me when people believe that what traditionalists say is really what the past was like, and nowhere do I see more lies than in what the "tradwife" movement have been led to believe. The real past was so much more interesting.

And speaking of trousers... Did you know that France had an 18th-century law that forbid women from wearing trousers which wasn't repealed until 2013? In 1972, the French politician Michèle Alliot-Marie was banned from entering the French Parliament because she was committing the crime of wearing trousers!

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palumbocathy

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Yurihonjo (2) (3) by murozo

Via Flickr:

(1) Many flowers are blooming on the sides of rice fields. The train passed by this field. Mt. Chokai in the back, but it was mostly hidden by clouds. 田圃の周りにたくさんの花が咲いていました。その脇を列車が通り過ぎて行きました。 奥には鳥海山が見えるのですが、ほとんど雲に隠れていました。 (2) Apple garden. These are probably the flowers of Ohrin (one of varieties of apples). / おそらく、王林の花。 (3) I found this buckwheat field yesterday but it was cloudy. The night passed... This morning is fine! I visit this place again! 昨日この場所を見つけたのですが、昨日は曇り。一晩明けて今日は晴れ！再訪して���りました。        

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The large torii gate to Kumano Hongū Taisha Grand Shrine (熊野本宮大社) in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, surrounded by rice fields in early May

La gran puerta torii del gran santuario de Kumano Hongū Taisha (熊野本宮大社) en Tanabe, prefectura de Wakayama, rodeada de campos de arroz a principios de mayo

Image from the shrine's official twitter account on May 4, 2024

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20241014 Rokusho shrine 3 by Bong Grit Via Flickr: もやっているところに朝日がさしてきました。このあと、登坂がきつくなるゾーン。 Photo taken at Matsudaira area, Toyota city, Aichi pref.

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北投稻田

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Rice Fields Forever

Bali/ Indonesia

photos cjmn

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“ Nutopia “ // Diego Castro

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Sunset & Mountain 🌞⛰️

📌 Majalengka, West Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩

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Romance on the Farm | what a beautiful view

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Taiwan 2023 (2) (3) by Celesta Kong