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What is the name of the tool used to pound medicine?

Pounding jar.

Consisting of a pounding jar, a pounding rod, and a lid, it can pound herbs, serve as a garlic masher, a masher, and is an indispensable household item in family life. The material is usually stone or metal, and the main function is to mash the items put into it (such as Chinese medicine, garlic, etc.).

Basic Interpretation of Pounding:

1. Pounding and pounding herbs.

2. Ancient legend has it that a white rabbit pounded medicine in the middle of the moon.

3, bird name.

From: Deng Youmei's "Smoking Pot": "The cake is carved with Chang'e moon and laurel, and the jade rabbit pestles medicine."

Expanded Information

The origin of the Jade Rabbit Pestle Medicine:

Saying One

Legend has it that there is a white Jade Rabbit in the Moon Palace, who is the incarnation of Chang'e. Because Chang'e ran to the moon and then violated the Jade Emperor's will, Chang'e was turned into a jade rabbit, and every time the moon was full, she had to pound medicine for the gods in the Moon Palace to show her punishment.

Saying two

Legend has it that there are three immortals, in the guise of three poor old people, to the fox, monkey and rabbit begging for food, the fox and the monkey have come up with food to help the old man, but only the rabbit did not, and then the rabbit told the old man: "You eat me."

It jumped into the blazing fire, the immortals were touched, so the rabbit was sent to the Palace of Guanghan into the Jade Rabbit, later, the Jade Rabbit in the Palace of Guanghan and Chang'e companion, and pounded the medicine of immortality.