Ancient "machine" mill, what has been the glorious history?

In our childhood, we often followed behind our grandfather, around the mill around, how to turn do not feel tired, the mill has been thousands of years of history, in China, also has a very glorious history of...?

In our memory, this kind of mill chiseled from stone is quite bulky, usually, a fixed place in the village, there will be a mill, cleaned very clean, because this is a public **** items, a large round stone, rolled back and forth on a large stone plate, the center is fixed by wood. Look very simple, but, the mill is very useful, in the countryside such things are very common, grinding corn, grinding soybeans, etc., as long as the crops need to be crushed, can be milled on it, and milled crops are very tasty.

If a large number of crops need to be dealt with, the village will be tethered to the livestock on it, not only can save time, but also save energy, listening to the old generation of people said, in the early days, only a village with a mill, in order to grind the noodles, a lot of people still have to go to the village to go, a long way to go, out of the morning and late to go back, so they will put together the money to make the village of the stonemason to get a mill, and then the mill to be The story has been passed down.

The mills are stone, in the residue handling problems and hygiene problems, for now, are not optimistic, and the volume of large, inconvenient to carry, in the work of the time, the mill crushed crops will not do a completely ideal state, so with the advent of the era of mechanization, a variety of machines came into being, gradually replacing the old mills.

In many places in the north of China, although there is no longer a stone mill, but the popularity of the electric mill, and the price is very cheap, and has become a very favorite tool for many elderly people in rural areas. Moreover, the working efficiency of the electric mill is higher than that of the stone mill, and the treatment is particularly clean.?

Nowadays, although no one uses the mill again, but the mill's glorious moment is we have witnessed ****, is some of us after 80, 90, the most unforgettable memory.