When is the Stone Festival?

Stone Festival is the 10th day of the first lunar month every year.

Stone Mill Day, one of the traditional festivals in China, is called Stone Festival on the 10th day of the first lunar month, which is the birthday of the stone god. It is also called Stone Mill Day, the tenth birthday, and the stone will live forever. On this day, it is not allowed to move stones and stone tools such as grinding, grinding and mortar, otherwise common beliefs will hurt crops.

On this day, it is also forbidden to build houses with stones, and there is a custom of burning incense and offering pancakes to stones at noon. In other places, the custom of carrying a stone god is very popular. On the night of the ninth day, a crock was frozen on a smooth stone. On the morning of the tenth day, ten girls or young men took turns carrying crocks. If the stone never falls, it indicates a bumper harvest in the new year. If the stone falls to the ground, it indicates a bad year.

Stone mill type

1968, a traditional flaky stone mill about 2 100 years ago was unearthed from Mancheng Han Tomb in Baoding City, Hebei Province. This is a copper-stone compound mill composed of a stone mill and a copper funnel, and it is the earliest stone mill discovered in China so far.

Modern chip stone mill retains the grinding part of traditional stone mill, that is, two cylindrical rocks, and changes the traditional power generation device. The original donkey wheat grinding power is changed into motor wheat grinding power, and at the same time, a conveying device and a cleaning device are added. Compared with the traditional stone mill, the modern stone mill saves labor, reduces the amount of labor and improves the output of the stone mill. The conveying device consists of a large hopper, a fan, an air door, a funnel and a pipeline.

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