There was a time when people, especially those who lived in the countryside of China, had to make bricks by their own for a new house they wanted to build. In those days there was no mechanical equipment like a block making machine. Usually a whole big family gathered together to fetch soil which would later be mixed with water to form mud. Then the mud would be made into wet bricks during sunny days so that there was enough time for the wet bricks to be dried completely by the sunshine. In spite of the development of weather forecast and the increasingly wide spread of radios and televisions, there were times when it suddenly began to rain and every one of the family, children included, ran to the