Countryside memories of the beautiful article: huller, hanging sieve and windmill

Every day holding a rice bowl, many people when there? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that. In fact, to be thankful not only farmers working hard in the fields, because the grain harvested into the warehouse, to make it into rice, although no longer have? The hoeing day when the afternoon, sweat drops under the soil? The scene, but also to go through a few laborious sweat, yo!

I remember when I was a kid, it was not easy to grind rice. At that time, we used a huller, which is not pronounced as l?ng, but as tāi?

The huller, shaped like a stone mill, is divided into two parts, but not made of stone. I have seen the process of making huller in my neighbor's house, firstly, the bamboo sheet is cut into long strips of soybean size, and then woven into a circle slightly bigger than a face plate and about 2 feet high, with a piece of bamboo board about 3 inches wide across the middle. Both ends of the bamboo board were out of the circle 4, 5 inches, one of which left a ping-pong ball hole, which is mainly for the handling and rotation to provide convenience. Another circle less than 1 foot high, woven around 4, 5 inch wide groove, connected to a 2 foot high wooden frame. Then a number of chestnut tree boards about 6 inches long and more than 1 foot long, about 3 inches wide and chopstick thick were prepared respectively. Then the five-color yellow soil, lime, sand in the ratio of 3:2:1 and well made ? Three sand. The three sands will be made by mixing them together. Three sand? Slowly fill in the bamboo circle, filling the side of the hammer tight. Inside the circle, there is a fist-sized hole, called huller eyes, used for rice. And then in the center of the circle to leave a 4, 5 inches deep, ping-pong ball size hole, called huller heart eyes, used to connect the next piece of huller. Chestnut boards will be nailed down piece by piece, nailed to the circle with the mouth to maintain a level surface, which is commonly known as? Nail huller teeth? Huller teeth densely nailed, and then sprinkled with? Three sand? , hammering tight, only let the huller teeth exposed a little bit. The top of the circle is made concave. The other one as the same way, just huller teeth shorter just, the center of the circle erected a ping-pong ball size, 4, 5 inches high stick, called the huller heart. To be? Three sand? After drying, the upper and lower sides of the overlap, it is done.

Then you can hull the grain, we call? The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're doing.

Then you can hull the grain, which we call?

? Palm rice? It is similar to pushing a stone mill. After hulling out the grain, the rice is very rough, the husk is also coarse, called coarse chaff. So it needs to be pounded with a pestle or milled again by an ox (see previous introduction). After this procedure, then use the windmill? Che rice?

The windmill is all wooden. It is about 5 feet high, more than 1 foot wide and about 6 feet long, with 4 feet. The right side is semicircular, with a shaft in the center and fitted with 4 board leaves, the shaft extends out of the place fitted with a rocker. There is an opening underneath and the top is funnel-shaped. The left is empty and is called the windmill butt. The rice to be carted is poured into the funnel, and the handle is shaken to produce a wind blowing over the rice coming down from the funnel, and the rice grains fall from the mouth below, while the chaff falls from the ? ass? Fly out, so as to achieve the purpose of chaff and rice separation.

After this procedure is not enough, because the car out of the rice contains a lot of grain, which requires the use of hanging sieve.

Hanging sieve is made of gabions, about 4 feet in diameter, with fine gabions woven into a slightly smaller than the rice grain mesh, laid on the bottom of the sieve made of coarse gabions. Above the sieve with 3 wineglass-sized bamboo poles to make a finished zigzag frame, hanging sieve is made. Tie a rope to the beam of the house, and tie the other end of the rope to the top of the hanging sieve frame. The car good rice poured in the hanging sieve, two hands to grasp the edge of the sieve, the sieve constantly shaking, rice in the sieve rotating, the rice in the grain is slowly concentrated in the middle of the sieve. Broken rice and grain tips leak down from the sieve. When the grains are picked out, the rice in the sieve is relatively clean. However, there is a bit of a trick to make the rice grains rotate in the sieve, and many people don't know how to use it when they first start using it, and they have to train for a while before they can get the hang of it.

From ? Palm rice? to milling rice and then car rice finally sieve rice, this process down, are very laborious. A strong labor force, from morning to night to complete a quintal of grain (100 pounds) is considered a good work efficiency. Therefore, before the Spring Festival, every family has to make New Year's rice, which is very busy. Some of them have to ask for help for a few days to do a good job!

By the end of the sixties, water turbines and diesel engines were used to grind rice. At that time, six or seven miles away from home in Pangbijiangan water turbine, everyone went there to grind rice, a trip back and forth smoothly if you want to half a day, if you meet a lot of people or the machine malfunctioned a little bit or something, a day or two or even three or four days before the rice milling is also a common thing.

One year before the Spring Festival, our village installed a diesel rice milling machine, to grind the rice of the people in an endless stream, to the evening on the contrary, this is not a diesel engine hair can not be seen, see the sky has been dark, loaded with rice waiting to grind the rice of the people one by one, anxious, baskets long to the side of the road. Fortunately, my house is close to the diesel engine can be heard. After dinner, everyone listened with their ears open for fear of missing the roar of the diesel engine. In the middle of the night, there was a sudden ? Toot-toot-toot? The sound, at the same time, the outdoor cheers, the diesel engine sound was completely drowned out by the people's cheers. This night, I sleep on the pillow of the sound of diesel engines into the dreamland.

In 1969, we built a unity dam on the Loudou River in the village, and installed a water turbine, which made it easier to grind rice, and no longer have to wait in line for a long time, as well as the diesel engine to grind rice, and no longer grind brown rice, and do not have to use the windmill again. These mechanized rice milling tools appeared, huller, hanging sieve of these ancient lines were swallowed by the smoke of history without a trace.

Now not only supermarkets often have a variety of rice for sale, the motor vehicle carrying the rice milling machine is also every now and then in the village shuttle. Who wants to grind rice, just a hand, from the grain out of the warehouse to the rice and chaff collection, both fast and good, all for you to do smooth.

This article was written by: Zhu Yuhua

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