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What's the name of the tool for making Ciba?

This is a stone mortar.

A stone mortar is a tool for milling rice. It is square, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Put it in the soil, only the mortar mouth is exposed to the ground. With the turbulence of the raft, the rice was shelled and peeled in the stone mortar, revealing dark red and white rice grains. Small stone mortar can be used for crushing, ramming, grinding and grinding medicinal materials.

Ciba, also known as rice cake, is a custom spread in rural areas for thousands of years. It is cooked during the Chinese New Year and before the Chinese New Year. Ciba, with a strong rural flavor, has become an important preparatory activity before the Chinese New Year. Ciba is made by steaming glutinous rice and stamping it with a special stone trough. It takes a lot of effort to make Ciba by hand, but it is soft and delicate and tastes excellent.

Introduction:

Ciba is very popular in southern China. Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities all have them. Huangchuan in Henan, Jiujiang in Jiangxi and Nanping in Fujian are the most popular, and Wuzhou in Guangxi is the most distinctive.

It is also available in southern Anhui, mainly on the Double Ninth Festival, as a holiday food for guests to taste. Ciba is made of glutinous rice and potatoes, soaked in clear water, steamed in a steamer, quickly put in a stone mortar until soft and elastic, then kneaded rice paste into large or small balls while it is hot, and then rolled in a plate with sesame seeds and flour mixed with white sugar (or soybean seeds and flour mixed with white sugar). It tastes sweet.