The older generation used "stone mill" and "roller". Why do they all rotate counterclockwise?

When I was a child, there were public stone mills and stone mills in the village, both of which belonged to the village. Generally speaking, they are a stone mill and a set of stone mills. The place where the stone mill and the stone mill are stored is called "mill". In fact, there is no house, only an open space with a stone mill and a stone mill. Most of the "mills" are in the headquarters of the original production team or other places.

There is a saying in the countryside that the stone mill is a white tiger, which is unlucky, so "grinding" is a place far away from residents. The invention of stone mill and stone mill is the wisdom of our ancestors, and the counterclockwise rotation of stone mill is also the crystallization of our ancestors' wisdom. Why do you say that? Let's talk about human grinding first.

Our left leg mainly plays a supporting role when pushing things, and our right leg mainly plays a pushing role, especially when turning left, which is more beneficial to our right leg. Our athletes always run counterclockwise when turning left. When preparing, the left leg is behind the front leg, which is conducive to giving full play to the best explosive force. The stone mill was developed according to this principle. Of course, the stone mill can also turn the texture clockwise in the opposite direction, but this clockwise right turn will make people feel particularly laborious, so people will be tired;

After talking about the reasons why the human mill or the mill turns counterclockwise, let's talk about why the animal pull stone mill and the stone mill also turn counterclockwise to the left. When using animal labor in rural areas, the left side is called "inside" and the right side is called "outside". People are used to being on the "inside" side. Don't you see that people who drive ox carts, horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts are all sitting on the "inside hand" of the cart, that is, on the left side.

When running, livestock are also accustomed to people's orders to move forward, backward, or turn left and right. These domestic animals are just accustomed to human training orders, so their actions are all subject to human command or arrangement. It is not difficult to understand why animal-drawn mills and mills turn counterclockwise. They are only obeying the arrangement of human beings, because when stone mills and stone mills were first invented, they were mainly driven by human power. So later, when grinding with animal power, they could only obey the counterclockwise rotation.

On our side, the animal power used for grinding is mainly donkeys. Donkeys are small and suitable for running in small circles, while horses and cows are big. It's too difficult to turn in such a small circle, and sometimes the stone mill can turn over, so only the donkey is the best at grinding.