What is the meaning of rice?

Inverting rice is the process of shelling milled millet. The shelled rice is rice bran, and the remaining rice grains are the white rice we eat. The tool for pounding rice is a bit like a medicine pot, with a wooden stick and a container. Smash millet and rice bran with a wooden stick.

The process of cooking rice requires a mortar, which is slowly chiseled out with a large whole stone. It looks like a huge small handleless wine cup, and the diameter of the mortar mouth is not less than 70 ~ 80 cm. It usually takes four people to lift a large stone mortar.

There are gongs carved in the mortar, and the mortar body must be buried underground, with the mortar mouth exposed from the ground and leveled with broken ceramic cylinder pieces around it for easy cleaning. On the top of the mortar, there is a cockroach body made of big tree segments. There is a pestle under the cockroach's head, and iron teeth are pressed against the cockroach's mouth. In the middle of the belly, there are cross bars on both sides to support warping.

Extended data

Longgu is a unique way of working in Li nationality, which is mainly done by Li women.

The rice pestle is about one meter long, with thick ends and thin middle handle, each weighing about three kilograms. The rice barrel is made of wood, the skin thickness is above 10 cm, the bottom thickness is above 15 cm, and the barrel weight is at least 25 kg. Familiar veterans sometimes run and jump continuously; Some even tie a stone to the cymbal head to make it heavier and more powerful. This method uses ingenious power to speed up the process, which may also be beneficial to improve the processing quality.