Inkomoko yimvura

Raincoat originated in China. During the Zhou Dynasty, people used the herb “ficus pumila” to make raincoats to protect against rain, snow, wind and sun. Such kind of raincoat is usually called “coir raincoat”. The outdated rain gear has completely disappeared in the contemporary countryside, and has become the permanent memory with the development of the times. The memory is indelible, which will appear in a particular occasion to touch your emotions, and you will remember it involuntarily and clearly. The memory gets more precious with years.

Mu cyaro cyo mu myaka ya za 1960 na 1970, ikoti yimvura ya coir yari igikoresho cyingirakamaro cyo gusohoka no gukora imirimo yubuhinzi kuri buri muryango. Ku minsi yimvura, abantu bari bakeneye kureba amazi mumirima yumuceri, gufungura inzira zamazi zikikije inzu no gucomeka kumeneka hejuru yinzu ...... Nubwo imvura yaba ingana gute, abantu bahoraga bambara imvura, bakambara ikoti ryimvura ya coir hanyuma berekeza mumuyaga. Muri kiriya gihe, abantu bibandaga cyane ku gutemba kwamazi, mugihe ikoti yimvura ya coir yafashaga abantu bucece imvura iva mwijuru. Imvura yarushijeho kwiyongera cyangwa yoroheje, nkimyambi ityaye, kandi ikoti yimvura ya coir yari nkingabo ibuza imyambi yimvura kurasa inshuro nyinshi. Amasaha atari make arashize, ikoti yimvura ya coir inyuma yuzuye imvura, kandi umuntu wambaye imvura yimvura hamwe na koti yimvura ya coir yahagaze nkigishusho mumurima mumuyaga nimvura.

Nyuma y'imvura yahindutse izuba, abantu bamanika ikoti yimvura ya coir yuzuye imvura kuruhande rwizuba, kugirango izuba rishobore kumurika inshuro nyinshi, kugeza igihe ikoti ryimvura ya coir ryumye hanyuma ibyatsi cyangwa fibre yimikindo bigahinduka byinshi. Iyo imvura itaha yaje, abantu bashoboraga kwambara ikoti yimvura yumye kandi ishyushye kugirango bajye mumuyaga nimvura.

“Indigo rainhats and green coir raincoats”, in the busy farming season of spring, people wearing rainhats and coir raincoats could be seen everywhere in the fields. The coir raincoat protected farmers from the wind and rain. Year after year, the farmers gained fruitful harvests.

Noneho, ikoti yimvura ya coir ntisanzwe kandi isimbuzwa ikoti yimvura yoroshye kandi ifatika. Ahari, irashobora kuboneka mukibuga cyimirima mumisozi ya kure cyangwa ingoro ndangamurage mumijyi, bikagutera kwibuka cyane kandi bikagufasha kubyutsa ubukana nubworoherane bwibisekuruza byabanje.