Kinces, Diana: Tăşnad. Chid cultural. Istoric (Satu Mare, 2015)

Etnography

and defining for the old ways of agriculture. Of the types of agriculture known in Tăşnad area were used field and hilly farming, cultivating especially corn and wheat, but also sunflower and hemp.

The specific geographical climate has determined that among the primordial occupations to stand the pomiculture and the viticulture, occupations proven by tradition and documents too.Th us, the presence of vi ne culture is mentioned in documents from 1507 when was speak about a donation of vineyard at Tăşnad. Also, from the fruit trees were grown pear, apple and plum.

The animal husbandry, particularly of the large cattle and shepherding represented for the inhabitants of these areas, basic occupations and an important source of food. The shepherding was not limited only to a number of techniques for practical use, but it was a complex phenomenon of popular culture, an amount of methods of civic production with a very rich material content. The fact that in the nineteenth century, more than one third of the area was covered with pasture and meadow fully reflects the extremely large material possibilities available to this occupation. The shepherding was responsible

Among the craft workshops that have worked in the town must be mentioned the tanner, the shoemaker, the cooper, the blacksmith and the potter. Some of these workshops were exhibited in the museum located near the thermal bath of Tăşnad and so they reconstruct in a manner intelligible and

not only with the alimentary problems, those who exercised, realized in fact some crafts for preparing and processing a full range of products from raw materials of pastoral origin.

The crafts represent an occupational advanced stage, characterized by techniques of processing raw materials, natural resources obtained through traditional occupations. The crafts were practiced either in professional workshops or on the street as seasonal activity, or occasionally at the fair held weekly. The specializations of craftsmen meet the daily living requirements of the people in the area, focusing mainly on wood, iron and leather manufacture. The craft workshops produced all the objects and the installations needed to equip a household and the tools used in the traditional activities in the area. The finished products, results of the work from the workshops were sold in the fairs organized weekly or monthly in Tăşnad.