The old rural saying, "sun grain is not sun rice, sun rice can not afford to lose", why rice can not be sun?

Previously in the countryside inside the sun grain are sun rice, never sun rice. Unless it is some of the family's rice bucket moldy, or rice born of insects will come out to sun, otherwise will never take the rice out of the sun. Why? Because of the rural areas there is such a rule of thumb: sun grain is not sun rice, sun rice can not afford to lose. There are also some people who simply say, the big sun sun rice, the more sun the less.

Usually, when we sunbathe in the rice paddy, it is the rice paddy that is pulled back from the ground and then directly spread out on the ground to directly turn the sun. In the past, when it was still necessary to pay rations, there were village cadres who went to every house to urge, on the one hand, to urge others to pay rations on time, and on the other hand, to see how the grain was drying. If the grain was not dried, it was not allowed to be handed over. The easiest way for people to judge whether the rice is dried to the standard or not is to randomly take a few grains of rice and put them in their mouths and bite them. If the bite feels hard and the sound is crunchy, then it is drier, and vice versa, then it needs to continue to be sun-dried.

Sun-dried paddy storage should also be safer, otherwise there will also be problems with heat and mold inside the granary. And it's also very difficult to remove the husk at the time of hulling. Also, rice beaten from paddy that is not sun-dried is prone to mold.

Why can paddy be sun-dried, but not rice?

Because there is a layer of rice husk on the outside of the paddy, which is not only very thick, but also very tight, and can tightly wrap the rice inside. In the sunshine of the paddy, the rice husk protects the rice inside very well. Although the moisture content of the whole paddy is decreasing in the process of sunbathing, the rice grains inside are protected by the rice husk, which always contains a certain amount of water content.

And after hulling the paddy into rice grains, the grains lose the protection of the outer husk. If the rice is placed directly in the sun, the grains will completely lose any protection, and the water inside will quickly disappear. And completely lose the water of the rice grain will be like being hammered tempered glass like the formation of many cracks, a little touch will fall apart, and finally a whole grain of rice will become a pile of scattered broken rice.

So, in the absence of special circumstances is not able to sunshine rice, otherwise the rice will be more and more sunshine, the more broken, the more sun less.