Which is Qinglong, a roller or a stone mill?

In ancient times, the mill was called Qinglong, and the stone mill was called White Tiger. The name is mainly related to the way they use it. The stone mill keeps rolling, so it looks like a dragon. It was called Qinglong in ancient times. The stone mill is fixed and sits like a tiger, so it is called a white tiger.

The stone mill consists of a grinding table, a grinding disc, a grinding roller and a grinding frame. There is a vertical shaft and a grinding frame in the center of the grinding disc, and the grinding roller is installed in the frame. Regular textures are engraved on the grinding disc and the grinding roller respectively to increase the friction force during grinding. Through the rolling of the roller on the grinding disc, the purpose of crushing and processing food crops is achieved.

There used to be a legend in the countryside that the stone mill is a green dragon and the stone mill is a white tiger. Don't put them too close, because there is a saying of "entering the dragon". Because the stone roller is a dragon, there is a custom in the countryside to wash the roller and pray for rain whenever there is no rain.

The custom of milling rice.

In most rural areas, stone mills, mills and pulley wells are public. In JD.COM, for example, in Tangshan, there is a custom that cooking brooms occupy rice mills. If a family wants to grind, they should put a small broom or a cooking broom on the millstone before breakfast to show the people in the same village that someone wants to grind.

Before the sixties and seventies, it was very lively around the mill. Men, women and children often queue up to grind millet, corn, salt and pepper. The adults in the village have meetings, talk about things and relax, and the children play here. It is the great hall, parliament hall and playground in the village, and the political, economic and cultural center of the village, which is closely related to the lives of the villagers.