Research On Stone Saddle-quern In Ancient Of China

China has a reputation for its agriculture and it was founded on the basis of the agriculture.A history ofchina,you can also say it’s a history of agricultural development.The agriculture not only made the humansettlements possible,but also because of the agriculture,there came the words and Chinese culture. Researchon agriculture can do without the agriculture tools.Although the stone saddle-quern gradually appearedwith the company of the original gathering and fishing economy,it it made the foundation for thedevelopment of agriculture. There is a relationship between stone saddle-quern and agriculture.It’s betterfor us to research on the initial and development of the agriculture,which should be an import path tounderstand the technical development of the ancient agriculture and also helps us comprehend thedistribution and the cultivation of ancient gathering and various types of plants,There must be somesignificance to definite the trait of the original culture,different economy types of disparate culture,temporalsocial division of labor and the living habits. As the tools for ancestor,The stone saddle-quern was a key tointerpret the dietary structure and cultural change of the ancient china,it’s offered a new kind of approachand mean to study the Chinese dietary culture.First,this essay bases on all sorts of history document and the former research materials,and makes adefinition of the stone saddle-quern,which could help us understand the origin of the stone saddle-quern.This essay reckon that the stone saddle-quern are commonly used in the late Paleolithic and early Neolithicperiod as the everyday tools,they were invented with the original gathering economy.The stonesaddle-quern embodied the division of men and women,they were tools for the female.Secondly,classify the stone saddle-quern depend on its external morphological characteristics,the usedpattern and the materials.Then, this essay discuss the use of stone saddle-quern in different times.In originalsociety and environment,any tools invented by the ancestors was developed multipurposeidiosyncratic,such as the stone saddle-quern,their use was diverse as the times went by,the function of thesetools kept evoluting.From the beginning,the fruit processing of the plant to the cereal processing,the use ofthe textile industry applied to grinding pigments on the pottery industry,the stone saddle-quern waseverywhere.However,with the improvement of the society productibility,the stone saddle-querns weregradually separated and replaced by more efficient and more portable professional tools.Last,the stonesaddle-querns were eliminated out of the long river of the history by the agriculture nation and thoroughlystepped out of the history stage.This article also expresses one opinion that there maybe existed difference about the outsidecharacteristic of the tools or specific names and the tools use on account of the geo graphicalreasons,combined with the time gap which was led to the different cultures,resulty in the stonesaddle-quern had various shapes is inevitable.The delicate stone saddle-quern form the Peiligangculture,Cishan culture and Houli culture,in addition to reflect the aesthetic view of the ancestors and sufficient food under the influence of these civilizations,they can not make sure that during these culturalperiods,there were a developed agricultural system of civilization.Once more,during this historical period,it’s good for us to sort the development and change of thestone saddle-quern.This essay states that the pestle and mortar started to treated as the implement of thecereal processing instead of the stone saddle-quern,as times goes by,the pestle and mortar went on to twomore specialized direction:one was the professional shelling appeared——grinds,mills and hullers;the otherwas the professional milling stone.Almost all these agricultural tools experienced with the power reform——from manpower to animal power to water power,even the wind power.Finally,the paper egress that the saddle-shaped stone plates from the northern nomadic people had thefunction of milling,maybe because of the function,the northern nomadic people made one of the mostpopular Hu food——hu Cake,which stept several dynasties such as Han and Tang Dynasty.The nomadicpeople and the central agricultural nation made the Hu Cake be widespread and prompted,the Hu Cake hada feature of localization and characteristics,which made materials——wheat,no longer occupied in themiddle of the dietary structure and it had been one of the most important foods until now.