hái lượm

Một người đang hái lượm quả mọng trong rừng.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Gathering / Foraging: The traditional human activity of collecting wild plant foods, such as fruits, nuts, seeds, herbs, and roots, from their natural environment. This term often refers to a subsistence method, particularly in historical or anthropological contexts.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trong thời kỳ đồ đá, con người sống chủ yếu bằng săn bắn và hái lượm. (During the Stone Age, humans lived primarily by hunting and gathering.)
  • Một số bộ tộc vẫn còn duy trì tập quán hái lượm. (Some tribes still maintain the practice of foraging.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily used in academic, historical, or anthropological discussions to describe a stage of human socio-economic development or a specific subsistence strategy.

Variants and Related Words

• Hái (v): to pick, to pluck (e.g., flowers, fruit).
  • Họ hái hoa trong vườn. (They pick flowers in the garden.)
• Lượm (v): to gather, to collect (often things scattered on the ground).
  • Đứa trẻ lượm nhặt những viên sỏi. (The child gathers pebbles.)

Synonyms

• Foraging: The act of searching for wild food resources.
• Gathering: The activity of collecting food from naturally occurring sources.

Related Concepts

• Săn bắn và hái lượm: Hunting and gathering. This phrase describes the dominant pre-agricultural human subsistence mode.
  • Nền kinh tế săn bắn và hái lượm. (A hunter-gatherer economy.)