◆《From self-cultivation to labor division》
Generally speaking, rough rice/paddy is sealed in bags and stored
after drying. Milling is conducted whenever necessary. During
ancient times, farming families would prepare their own rice milling
utensils and perform rice milling works from seed sowing to rice
milling and rice polishing. Farming families would do everything
themselves. Later, as commerce prospered and professional labor
division began, rice milling related lines of work appeared. Rice
milling was gradually separated from farm works. After rice milling
steps became mechanical, equipment costs increased and rice milling
became a professional task. Farming families and rice milling works
were no longer related to each other. This situation is similar to
modern mechanical tillage in which people are hired to engage in
seedling growing, land preparation, rice seedling transplanting,
harvesting and drying works. Farm owners no longer participated in
these works. In other words, rice milling is one of the first tasks
to detach from rice planting procedures of a farming family during
earlier times.
◆《Two stages of rice milling》
Basically, rice milling can be divided into two
stages namely: “dehusking/dehulling” and “rice refining.”〔rice
pounding 〕 “dehusking/dehulling” refers to obtaining brown rice by
removing husk. The remaining rice husk is called chaff; “rice
refining” refers to further removing the outer layer yellow coat of
brown rice (embryo layer) to obtain milled rice/polished rice. The
coat removed is called rice bran. From the past till now, the rice
milling process had always been carried out in this fashion. As time
went by were utensils used differed, efficiency, and results were
improved.
Rice milling stage |
1.Dehusking/dehulling |
2.Rice refining |
Functions in respective stages |
Rough rice/paddy is dehusked to become
brown rice |
Remove coat and embryo from brown rice
to become milled rice/polished rice |
Name of line of work in ancient times |
Soil grind room |
soil grind room or milled
rice/polished rice store |
Name during Japanese colonial period |
Rice refining machinery |
Name of t line of walk at present |
Rice milling factory 〔Mi
Jiao〕 |
Equipment in ancient times |
soil grinder or wooden grinder |
Heap |
Machinery equipment |
Dehusking/dehulling machine |
Rice refining machine |
Grinding and milling equipment |
Household machinery equipment |
Rice mill
〔only one operation line;
from dehusking/dehulling to rice refining〕 |
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