#村长听写# May 21 2026 [第5320次]
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上期答案：
20260520
"They’ve been growing rice in Central Japan for 3,000 years. It’s always been a pretty complicated business, and remains so to this day. Seeds will only germinate properly if they’ve been sitting for many months in a sunlit pool of water at least 5 centimeters deep, but the stalks can only be harvested when the water has been drained, and they’ve been able to dry out for a few weeks. All this makes for an unholy degree of complication. It means that rice generally has to be grown in terraces facing the sun, with water flowing down the hillside through a well-managed network of sluices and dikes. There has to be an upper terrace that functions as a reservoir or holding pond, and an extremely detailed agreement between all the farmers as to when their particular terrace will be ready to receive or be drained of water. The whole community needs a firm grasp of hydrodynamics, a law-abiding nature, and a highly punctual and disciplined outlook.
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