How to grind rice in ancient times?

1. The rice ground by ancient people is called mashed rice.

2. Watering rice is the process of shelling the paved millet. The shelled rice is rice bran, and the remaining rice grains are white rice to eat. The tool for pounding rice is a bit like a medicine pot, with wooden sticks and containers. Smash millet and rice bran with a wooden stick.

ma mi chōng mǐ

Meaning:

For example: medicine

Open the Chaoshan Ballad, which contains many folk affairs about beating, grinding, threshing rice and so on. It reflects the pain of people's life in the old society and places their hopes on changing their miserable lives. Such as: * * * Sister-in-law is injured * * * Sister-in-law, tucking bran all over her head.

* * * Sister-in-law was brushed by her sister-in-law and covered in bran.

There is a deep river in the background. Jump into the river and cry.

Get, get, get rice to feed the chickens ... feed the pigs to pay off their debts, and feed the cows to drag the plows and harrows.

Extended data:

Swallowing rice is not a craft, and the process is not complicated, but it is definitely hard work. A mortar, slowly chiseled out with a whole big stone. It looks like a huge small handleless wine cup, and the diameter of the mortar mouth is not less than 70 ~ 80 cm. It usually takes four people to lift a large stone mortar. There are gongs carved in the mortar, and the mortar body must be buried underground, with the mortar mouth exposed from the ground and leveled with broken ceramic cylinder pieces around it for easy cleaning.

On the top of the mortar, there is a cockroach body made of big tree segments. There is a pestle under the cockroach's head, and iron teeth are pressed against the cockroach's mouth.

The middle of the belly is supported by cross bars, just like a seesaw playing acrobatics. A deep pit was dug underground at the tail of the abdomen. When the center of gravity moves to the tail of the stomach, when it goes to the pit, the head of the stomach is raised and then dives.

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