A stick and a bowl are called stone mortar. Stone mortar is a production tool made of various stones, which is used to crush, pound and grind medicinal materials and food. A stone mortar is a tool for milling rice. It is square, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Put it in the soil, only the mortar mouth is exposed to the ground. With the turbulence of the raft, the rice was shelled and peeled in the stone mortar, revealing dark red and white rice grains.

Small stone mortar can be used for crushing, ramming, grinding and grinding medicinal materials. Before electrified production, human food was mainly processed into food with this production tool. It can be said that stone mortar is a necessity of ancient human life, and stone mortar and well are symbols of human settlement. After mankind entered the era of electrification, stone mortar was gradually eliminated.

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How to choose mortar:

Pottery is perishable and cost-effective. It is only suitable for smashing garlic and other things that are easy to smash. Wood mortar and bamboo mortar are light in weight and easy to carry, but it is very important that these materials basically contain glue and paint, which is quite harmful to human body; Steel mortar looks good, but it will rust if used for a long time, even stainless steel mortar is ugly if used for a long time.

There are many materials for stone mortar, such as bluestone, marble, granite and artificial stone powder. Among them, bluestone mortar is the top grade with the highest cost performance. Marble has radiation, and artificial stone contains toxic substances such as high radiation and high-pressure glue, such as white marble mortar.

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