Laozhangren composition

The old press mill, which is about three or four miles away from the original Liuxikou, is called "Tongma Bookstore".

This is the place where I played the most when I was a child. Because my father used to work here for many years, I like to run here from home whenever I have time.

I remember one time, I might be disobedient at home, make my mother angry and hit my boy. Ran out of the house in a rage, along the dirt road next to the Danshui River, and went against the current. Soon came to Liuxikou, and then crossed more than a dozen wooden bridges from Liuxikou. On the Danshui River, I crossed a wooden bridge made of Chinese fir strips, at least 30 meters long. Because this is the main passage between north and south, people on both sides of the river have to cross this bridge, and many people walk. Sometimes the rope tied by Chinese fir strips on the bridge deck is loose, and sometimes when you cross the bridge, you get to the loose place, which fluctuates greatly up and down. If I'm not careful, I'll fall under the bridge. No, I'm just unlucky. I just walked here. In the process of ups and downs, because the body failed to keep balance, a "hungry" and "plop-"fell into a deep pool of green grass. If no one was there, I might say, "Feed the giant salamander!" " .

A middle-aged man, with stubble on his face, saw me fall into the river and quickly took off his underwear, leaving only a pair of shorts. He swam into the water and swam towards me, and quickly rescued me from the shore. I was surprised to learn that it was someone's son when I asked. What did you run all the way? I said to my uncle:

"I went to find the father of Tongmashu Factory."

"oh! How dangerous it is to be alone without an adult! "

"..." I know I was wrong, but I just looked at my uncle and couldn't say a word.

"Fortunately, you are really lucky to meet me!" I looked scared. I just looked and said nothing.

"I just went to Tongmashu Factory to change my face and take you to your father by the way." My uncle said to me.

I followed my uncle and soon came to Tongshu Factory. He gave me to my father. Dad was very surprised when he saw me. My uncle told my father what happened. My father quickly took me to his bedroom, called for hot water, bathed me and put on the clothes he brought me. I wear it on my body, just like the costumes worn by Beijing opera actors, with thick trouser legs and big sleeves. When my father saw me, he couldn't help laughing. When others saw me, they all laughed their heads off, which made me blush and embarrassed.

Later, my father gave me a bowl of steaming noodles, handed it to me, let me eat, and said not to run around.

I finished eating noodles and walked out of the house. This old mill, located by the stream, has three houses, with a wall made of rock blocks in the east and a roof made of slate. Opposite this house is a wooden frame ovary, which is the finance room, kitchen and the housing for the staff here. Looking to the west, not far away is a large slate house. In front of the slate house, there is a threshing floor inlaid with slate, and there are just pressed noodles on countless wooden shelves.

It is said that this mill is actually a comprehensive processing plant integrating oil extraction, processing and dough pressing. A real press factory is a big house with a rock wall near the east end. There are four or five people in the master's press room, especially in the spring when rapeseed is ripe, and there are busy figures inside and outside the press room.

There is a set of complex and standardized production technology, from the entry of mountain rapeseed into the oil mill to the outflow of golden-colored and fragrant rapeseed oil. It is only one of the working procedures to twist the "thousand-thousand-thousand-stalk" straw into a cake wrapped in oil.

Before this, the villagers must break the rapeseed in the sun, peel off the rapeseed, take off the shell and dry it in the sun. After this series of preparatory work, the villagers carried rapeseed into the oil mill, ground, fried, steamed, wrapped and squeezed until the clear oil gurgled out of the old wooden press and the oil fragrance floated out of the gloomy old workshop, which could be smelled in Fiona Fang.

Xiang Daisan, Xiang Daozhong, Xiang Ziwei and my father began to "oil" in their twenties and were extremely skilled in this whole set of traditional crafts. It is said that since the Kangxi period, they moved here from Jiangxi. For 300 years, their mentoring has enabled this craft to be passed down and maintained a lasting vitality.

Before pressing oil, making cakes is a very important process. It is a skill to twist a "thousand-kilogram stalk" straw knot. It takes several straws to force the cake, otherwise the vegetable cake will fall apart. It requires a master not only to have physical strength, waist strength and arm strength, but also to have skillful and accurate strength. If the cake is wrapped too thick, it will affect the oil yield. If the cake is thin, it will not work. If it is hidden in the iron fork, it will also affect the oil yield. A bucket with ten fingers is a steelyard; Each cake weighs 6.5 Jin, and there is no difference between up and down. Every 100 Jin of rapeseed 12 cake, no more or less. In our hometown, fresh water is well known to women and children. Everyone knows how many catties of rapeseed and cakes there are.

Twist the grass knot for self-defense, cabbage cake. The vegetable cake in front of him has been stacked higher than himself. Every time he stacks a vegetable cake, he carefully rotates the cover plate counterclockwise, and inserts the straw that protrudes obliquely from the side to make it obedient. His meticulous expression when doing these movements makes people feel that this is a very ornamental skill.

In fact, the more ornamental craft is oil extraction, which is called "oil extraction" by locals. Self-defense is a bit old, and this kind of manual work is reserved for young people.

Xiang Daisan, who is in his fifties, took off his clothes and started to work with only an undershirt on. He put the vegetable cakes neatly into the belly of the wooden press, squeezed the skewers into the gap in the belly of the press, then untied the hook hanging on the "stone pimple", held the "stone pimple" with both hands, leaned forward and began to push the "stone pimple" with the help of skills to make it swing high. After crossing an arc in the air, it slammed into the kebab. "Hello, Lu Yue —— Master An Lu ——" The squeezer shouted loudly and forcefully, with different steps. The whole process was dazzling when he hit the "stone bump" on the kebab again and again.

A "pimple" weighs 2 10 kg.

Shake the "stone bumps" again and again, and soon, the old man began to sweat on his head. It was a little cold in early winter, but his whole body was covered with a hot air. In the first half of the year, oil producers used to work with bare arms, and their muscles protruded like iron.

There is not much left in this traditional wood pressing oil extraction process. Even the fresh water with rape blossoms everywhere is still a workshop for squeezing vegetable oil by hand.

The wood press is made of two or a whole piece of wood hollowed out and weighs more than 1000 kg. Put it in a conspicuous position in the oil mill and it looks like a long dragon. Locals call it "Long Mu Publishing House". Generally speaking, each oil mill has at least two wooden dragon crushers, and each wooden dragon crushers can hold 36 to 45 cakes.

"There are usually at least three people in this old mill. It usually starts at six in the morning and squeezes oil at twelve noon. If the wood is squeezed, generally speaking, both ways are reasonable. The first way can be squeezed to nearly four taels, that is, a catty of sesame is squeezed with four taels of oil, and then it has to be added. If the total amount of * * * comes out, it is four taels of silver, that is, one hundred catties of sesame seeds is forty-eight catties of oil. At that time, when watching my dad squeeze oil, they were pumping oil, singing and chatting with people who came to buy oil for change, and they felt quite happy. Plus, at that time, we often ate their biscuits in the press room, and we still held them after the oil was drained. My companion and I sat on the cow mill and rushed to the mill. At that time, it was quite fun to play in the squeezing room. "

In ancient times, the method of oil extraction was strictly in accordance with the traditional technology, passed down from generation to generation, and meticulous. Every working procedure preserved by people today is still completely consistent with the heavenly creations announced by the Ming Dynasty more than 300 years ago. The traditional technological process passed down from generation to generation makes people feel as if they were in the farming civilization hundreds of years ago, with time and space changing, clear and longing.

Stir-fry and crush the oil, make it into cakes, then wedge it into the press bed with wooden wedges of different sizes, and squeeze out the oil by hitting the rod and wedge. Ram is a ebony tree about six meters long, one end of which is wrapped in iron and hung on the roof beam. During operation, the main hand holds the tail of the ram, and another 4 to 6 people pull the rope tied in the middle of the ram. The Lord called the first half as a preparation, and everyone sang the second half while pulling the ram hard. As soon as the rope in their hands was loosened, the rammer fell and hit the wedge, which was a bumpy whole process.

Oil-pressing bugle is a kind of labor bugle, also called oil-pressing bugle. It is a bugle that workers in oil-pressing plants shout when pressing vegetable oil. Generally, there are three different methods to squeeze oil: bumping, squeezing and hammering, and the number varies with the way and region of squeezing oil. "Bump the horn", when bumping, a rough bump wood about two feet long is hung, and several people push the big wooden wedge in the oil tank to squeeze oil. When you hit and shout a song, the steps and actions of hitting and squeezing are under the unified command of the song, and the mood is more intense. The wringer horn uses a spiral wringer to squeeze oil. Several people operate the wringer, and the movements should be neat and shouting. "Hammer bending" is generally operated by two people, who hammer the wooden wedge to extract oil. The two sang the song in pairs, and operated while singing.

The arrow board should be inserted straight. -Hey!

Barbell hit. -Hey!

Stand firm. -Hey!

Beautiful flying hammer. -Hey!

Hit, hit, hit, hit-hey, hey, hey, hey!

Oil pressing technology has played an important role in the development of human history. It is of great historical significance and cultural value to protect, develop and utilize mill resources.