In the past, there were different explanations about how to explain the 6-print, 8-print 10-print of large iron pots, and how much was one print. Some people explain it very simply and clearly. The diameter of the 6-seal pot mouth is 60 cm, that of the 7-seal pot mouth is 70 cm, that of the 8-seal pot mouth is 80 cm, and so on. One seal is of course 10 cm. Some people say it more directly, eight printing pots are for eight people to eat, seven printing pots are for seven people to eat, and so on. I don't quite agree with this explanation. I remember when I was a child, there were five people in my family, who also used 8-stamp cauldrons. There are four people in grandma's family, and they also use eight-printed cauldrons. It can be said that in rural areas, no matter how many people in the family, they basically use eight-printed cauldrons.
One thing I find strange is that among the large iron pots used in rural areas, only six, eight and ten printing pots have been heard, and these are even numbers. It is rare to hear that there are five printing pots and seven printing pots 1 1 printing pots. That is to say, there are only even numbers and no odd numbers in the pot with printing as the unit of quantity.
I remember many years ago, there was a foundry in our village, and the foundry once turned over the raw iron pot. When my brother worked in a battlefield, I remember he told me that the diameter of the mouth of Bayin Pot was 2.2 feet and the weight was 22 Jin. Calculate carefully, two feet two is almost 80 centimeters. I think that the eight-printed cauldron used by five people in our family in those days, whether it was to paste a pot of cakes or steam a pot of steamed bread, could not be eaten in half a month if it was put now. But at that time, for some reason, everyone was particularly able to eat. Stick a pot of cakes, and it will be finished in two or three days.
In the past, only the old people in the countryside still used these cauldrons, but the young people basically didn't need them. They all bought steamed buns with stainless steel pot and stainless steel cages. To be honest, I think what kind of pot was used to make steamed buns. It's not as delicious as steamed bread from a big iron pot. In a large iron pot, covered with wheat straw and grass, steamed buns are always different from other steamers and have a strong wheat flavor.
Iron pot is a must in our daily life, and it has always been based on "seal". What is the specific "seal"? I will talk about this problem below. Interested friends: Please read on.
The so-called "seal" is an ancient unit of mark, which consists of 8 models: 2 "seal, 3" seal, 4 "seal, 5" seal, 6 "seal, 8" seal, 10 "seal, 12" seal, and 2 "seal"
4 "India" or above, generally used for cooking, with a fixed cooker, no need to move the end, so there is no pot ear. Generally, three or four people cook, that is, four people print, and five or six people print at five and six. Generally, 8, 10, 12 "printing" pots are used for dinner, banquet and business.
For the origin of its model, basically no one knows? I asked the elderly people in the past, and they didn't understand? I didn't find a correct statement when I looked up Baidu this time. Because it is not calculated by centimeters, the models are not exactly the same, and sometimes there is a gap of one centimeter. The depth is also inconsistent. Few people have the heart to measure how many centimeters it is. Ordinary people buy pots according to the population and the number of "stamps" they need to sell and support stoves. How much is a "seal"? There are no specific standards. About 12 cm, and so on.
These questions are generally unpopular topics. What is the origin of the statement? Very few people know. It is not entirely correct to say that you press centimeters. Only those who used to make pots know.
With the development of society and the popularization of household appliances, people use iron pots less and less. Only businessmen use large pots, and small ones are basically eliminated.
Print the size of the pot. Three printing, five printing, seven printing, eight printing, nine printing, ten printing, printing and boiling. The pot is printed with rust red circles, and a few circles are printed as marks after a few prints. A seal is equal to the size of a fist, three inches. Refers to the diameter of the pot, not counting the edge of the pot.
The "seal" of rural iron pots is not an accurate measurement unit in rural areas, and there is no official certification. In the past, there were not many professional equipment for making certain things in rural areas, and most of the large iron pots were hand-cast by rural craftsmen and cast with pig iron, which was particularly heavy and could be used for many, many years. And rural craftsmen often make things with "eyes are rulers and hands are scales", and they do not need professional measuring tools, so they still make large iron pots that are convenient.
In the past, every household in rural areas used to cook with earthen stoves. When I was a child, my kitchen stove had three mouths, one 12 large iron pot and two 6-printed small pots. It was enough for my family to cook with large pots more than small ones. Iron pots are made of pig iron, which is brittle but resistant to burning. I remember that when I was a child, my family bought pots first, and they were set according to the size of the pots. No one delved into the size of the pots. Anyway, when you bought the pots, you told people that several people in the family were eating, and people would recommend you to use iron pots with a large number of prints.
Nowadays, the earthen stoves in our village have been dismantled long ago. My grandmother passed away in the twelfth lunar month last year. I temporarily set up four stoves in my yard for a banquet, which was based on 20 large iron pots. There were many relatives and friends who came to pay their respects, and only the big pot could make everyone eat. The pot was rented, and the store handled it in advance, which saved us the trouble of handling it. However, the 20-print iron pot is really heavy. If it were not for this kind of wedding banquet, the average family would not need it at all.
The year before last, I brought my girlfriend home. Usually, my parents are the only ones at home, and they all use 3-print small iron pots. We went home to visit them, and the iron pot was not enough to cook. My father went to the market to buy a 6-print iron pot, and when he got home, he heated it with a small torch, then scalded the pigskin with fat, and wiped it all over the pot from the inside out, until the iron pot changed color, and my father washed it clean before cooking. I made this procedure when I was a child, mainly to prevent the iron pan from oxidation and rust, and also to make the iron pan absorb less oil and remove odor when cooking for the first time.
As for the "seal" used for the size of the iron pot, this can only be said to be a unit of folk conventions, and the seal of the pot we use is the smallest. Before, I asked my father why he always said how many stamps he bought, and what was the stamp? Dad always said with a smile that the footprints of a child who just had a full moon were printed, which made me confused. It is more reliable for me to measure the length and height in the countryside by hand (the length of thumb and forefinger).
Therefore, the "print" of the iron pot is probably similar to the "one tie, two tie, three tie ……" measured by hand, which is only a rough range of data, not accurate data.
However, some people have measured the data of iron pots, and found that even iron pots with the same print have different data. For example, iron pots with eight prints may have a measured data of 65 cm in one bite, 66 cm in the other, and 68 cm in another bite, and so do other pots with printing numbers. It can be seen that "printing" is just like "tying", and it is a rough data, not accurate data.
In fact, living in the countryside is often like this. There is no need to be serious. When I was a child, my father always measured my height with a "hand-tied" and said that "one-tied" is 20 cm. Although everyone has different palms, it is probably within this range.
(Text/A Bing)
The "seal" mentioned by the subject may be the dialect of various places. Every time we have heard of it, in our whole Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu and even Shandong area, the unit of measurement of large iron pots is "Yan" or "Zhang", because most of the large iron pots we use are trafficked from Shandong by donkey carts, and they are still in use today.
The measurement unit of the large iron pot used in our countryside is very accurate. The pot with several edges you buy is several edges, and several pieces are several pieces. You can't mix them. The edge and the piece are different.
For a pot with several edges, you need to buy a pot cover with several edges, and a few pots have several pot covers. For example, if we buy an 8-edge pot, we have to buy an 8-edge pot cover. If we buy 8 pots, we can't cover them. When we buy a pot or a pot cover in the market, the merchant must first ask us: How many pots or pots are there at home? It's very troublesome to toss and turn when you buy the wrong one.
This "seal", "edge" and "Zhang" is not an official accurate measurement unit, but it really exists in our countryside and is very accurate! What is even more amazing is that most of these large iron pots are hand-cast by rural craftsmen. They are particularly strong and can be used for more than ten years. It is the rural craftsmen who have made such real and accurate large iron pots!
So what is the difference between the "edge" and "Zhang" of this big iron pot? A large iron pot with a rim, I think my friends have basically understood the "rim" when they see it here, that is, the edge of the pot extends outward, and the lid is covered in the inner mouth; What about the difference between "Zhang"? It certainly doesn't extend outward, and the lid is covered on the edge of the big iron pot! If you don't believe me, you can go back to your hometown and see the big iron pot.
So what is the size of 6 edges or 6 sheets? That is to say, the distance of a fist is about 10 cm, and the 6-edge is 60 cm in diameter, and the 10 sheet is 100 cm in diameter. The 5 th and 6 th edges (sheets) are used for cooking in our countryside, and the 8 th edge (sheets) is used for cooking. My family used to have one.
What we admire is the craftsmen in the countryside. The cast iron pot is really easy to use and it is true that it does not rust! It's not like the iron pot bought in the supermarket now. After cooking in the morning, the pot is brushed, and after cooking in the afternoon, a layer of rust is born. What other non-stick pots and health pots are there? Do you have a big iron pot in our countryside? It rarely rusts!
Cooking in a large iron pot, the fried food really tastes natural, and the steamed bread steamed with wheat straw stalks is the smell of wheat! Many people in our rural areas still use this kind of large iron pot at home!
I have been operating an iron pot for more than 20 years. The seal of the iron pot is not a unit of measurement, but an agreed code. And different regions have different sizes. Just like the old fights. In our place, six printing pots are 60 cm, eight printing pots are 72 cm and ten printing pots are 76 cm. Twelve printing pots are 78 cm. Not far from us, the ten-printing pot is 74 cm. There is no pattern to be found. He's just a size-sensitive code.
After we moved upstairs, we didn't use the big iron pot with eight seals. Originally, when we lived in the old house, our kitchen was in the wing, and there was a big iron pot with eight seals in it. Every winter, when my mother, my brother and I were sitting on the kang watching TV, my father steamed a pot of steamed bread in the big iron pot alone, using wheat straw as a drawer cloth, and the steamed bread made was particularly fragrant. It would be delicious to steam steamed bread with a bowl of small salted fish and eat steamed bread and small dried fish.
I heard my mom and dad tell me that when they were young, they used a big iron pot with eight seals to paste cakes. At that time, they generally couldn't eat steamed bread. Every household ate cornmeal cakes. When pasting cakes, steam a bowl of pickles in the pot. I have never eaten cakes in a large iron pot, but it smells good when I think about it.
After moving upstairs, our family never made steamed bread in the cauldron again, and the steamed bread from stainless steel pot always made people feel less of a flavor. But fortunately, we can often eat steamed buns in large iron pots, and a relative in the country will often give them to us.
Then, what is the size of the big iron pot used in the countryside before, with six seals, eight seals and ten seals? The interpretation of this unit seal varies from place to place, but generally speaking, it is not much different. Although it was said that in the past, large iron pots were used in every household in rural areas, few people measured the diameter of the pot mouth, but there were really careful people who measured the pot mouth carefully. Our neighbor once stayed in the supply and marketing cooperative for a period of time. When he came out to cool off in the summer night, he once told everyone that the diameter of the pot with six seals was 58 cm, the diameter of the pot with seven seals was about 66 cm, the diameter of the pot with eight seals was about 72 cm, and the pot with one seal was about 10 cm.
Some people here have also used a simple way to say the size of six-printing pots, eight-printing pots and ten-printing pots. This method is more general, that is, measure it by hand. One tie is about 20 cm, and the six-printing pot is about three ties. The diameter of the eight-printing pot is about four ties, and the ten-printing pot is about five ties, which is about one meter. Some people simply think that the six-printing pot is the six-printing pot, and the eight-printing pot is the eight-printing pot, just taking this printing as a distinguishing number.
A few years ago, there were many private sand-turning factories in our village, and some people turned over raw iron pots. It seems that the diameter of Bayin's pot mouth is 2 feet 2 and its weight is 223 Jin. In fact, it doesn't matter how many sizes are printed. What matters is that people like the taste of that era.
Large iron pots used in rural areas are very common. I have two at home. One is small, which is mainly used for cooking, and the other is large, which is used for cooking. It is used every time guests come to my home, and the cooked rice is particularly fragrant. But when it comes to size, I really don't know. I only know what the blacksmith said 10 and 8, and our big pot can almost control the appetite of 10- 12 people. It's quite big.
It is said that the rural iron pot was printed with 6 seals, 8 seals and 10. What exactly does this "seal" mean? How big is a "seal"?
I don't know this specifically. It is estimated that the older generation will understand it. Grandma just said that a few people are just a few pots. It sounds quite similar and quite consistent with the actual situation. It is estimated that there is no specific measurement tool before. This "seal" is also the unit of population!
After consulting the information, many people also say that this "seal" is the homonym of "inch", and an inch is 2.54 cm. However, the specific measurement of the diameter of the pot is not accurate, and the gap is a bit large. For example, 600 mm for six seals, if you press the inch, it will be 30 inches, which is obviously not the case.
In my opinion, it should be related to the depth, caliber and weight of the pot. In general, it is a few printing pots, but how to convert them is unknown.
In a word, the wisdom of the ancients is admirable. Although the source of "seal" can't be verified, it is really suitable for people's daily needs, and 6-8 printing pots will do.
At that time, I was very young, and I still lived in a bungalow in the countryside. Every family had a stove with a big iron pot about 8 "printed" on it. I remember that big iron pot was the main cooker for ordinary people to eat and drink.
Whether it's stewing rice, cooking big dregs, fishing small rice, steaming cornmeal cakes, cooking, stewing, making soup or even boiling boiled water, we all use the same 8 "printed" large iron pot, but it's unimaginable for us now, at least we will use a special kettle to boil water to prevent the odor.
But at that time, maybe I was still young, or I was used to it at that time. I never felt anything wrong, just like when I was a child, someone who "worked" gave a "discount" to his neighbors (all kinds of leftovers were mixed together), and I still ate with relish.
I remember that at that time, Grandpa was half a craftsman. Anyone who wanted to build a stove would ask Grandpa for help. Grandpa always asked the other party to buy a big iron pot first, and then build a stove according to the size of the big iron pot.
In my memory, I asked my grandfather why I had to buy a large iron pot before building the stove. Grandpa told me that the size of the large iron pot was not standard, and it had to be built according to the real thing to ensure a perfect fit.
Later, I asked my father why the size was not standard. My father smiled and told me that the things used by ordinary people were all made by rough people, which would be so standard.
In fact, the unit of measurement of the size of the iron pot is "printed", which is just a conventional saying in rural areas. Until today, this unit of measurement of "printed" has not been officially recognized.
Grandpa once told me that "print" refers to the footprint length of a newborn child, which is about 10 cm to 12 cm; It is also said that "seal" is actually "several strokes" or "several strokes" (the length of thumb and forefinger opening); Others say that "print" is the width of an adult's palm.
Anyway, according to various statements, the size of 1 "seal" is about 10 cm, and there is still a big error in general. In fact, when you think about it, you know that the large iron pot used by ordinary people in those days was not a precision instrument, and it is not necessary to be so accurate because of the technology of that year.
I think this is also the reason why whenever grandpa builds a stove for others, he must wait for the master to buy the pot back first!
Actually, according to our general theory here, the diameter of 3 "Yin" iron pot is 40 cm, 4 "Yin" iron pot is 46 cm, 6 "Yin" iron pot is 60 cm, 8 "Yin" iron pot is 72 cm, and 10 "Yin" iron pot is 85 cm.
As can be seen from the above data, the interval between each "seal" is not the same; At the same time, the size of large iron pots with the same printing number in different regions is different; It is also said that there are some size differences in the same number of iron pots in the same area.
Generally speaking, the unit of "seal" is not a standard unit of measurement, but a rough unit of measurement used by ordinary people to distinguish large iron pots of different sizes in their daily life and practice.
At that time, most of the large iron pots used by every household were between 6 and 8 "prints". If there was a large population, they would use a large iron pot of about 10 "prints. It is said that the size of the large iron pot for banquets could reach about 20" prints ".
Looking back now, the big iron pot in those days, although it was easy to rust, the food made was particularly fragrant. My mother cooked and I cooked firewood, which was an unforgettable and warm picture ...
But now I have moved upstairs. Besides going out to eat "iron pot stew" occasionally, I can still see that kind of pot. I don't need that kind of big iron pot in my daily life anymore, but the wonderful childhood memories brought by it will never be forgotten by me ...
I saw many respondents say: I miss the smell of rice cooked by grandmothers and mothers in large iron pots when I was a child. Why do you miss it? Because the living standard is better now, stainless steel appliances or electrical equipment have been replaced at home, and the large iron pot replaced by modern goods has lost its use at home. In fact, those who don't need big iron pots are not real rural people. When you walk into our northern countryside, you will find that almost 90% of people's families still have earthen stoves, and the fire entrance of the stoves leads directly to the inner kang, and the big iron pots on the stoves still continue to be used. Still steaming steamed bread for people in winter, the hot kang continues its mission, especially in the New Year, every household will use it to steam the jujube cake for the New Year, and it is also steamed in a big iron pot with eight seals.
Then, since "seal" is a unit of measurement, how big is this seal? I believe that most people will be as curious as the farmer's wife, and I believe that ten people will give ten different solutions. Seriously, however, for this question, Mrs. Nong deliberately asked the person who sells pots and consulted a friend who works in the measurement department. They said: Because this "seal" is not a national legal measurement unit, there is no clear standard in the legal measurement unit for how big the "seal" is. No one can accurately calculate the conversion relationship between seals, nor do they know exactly how much a seal is. It is just one used by the people to make a unified diameter in the process of casting iron pots in the past.
In the past, the pots used by our common people were basically made and cast by folk blacksmiths, and the standards were not strict and the diameter was not very precise. In the past, when people usually measured the diameter of an object, the common method was to measure it by hand, open their fingers, and take the length of the mother finger and forefinger as the diameter area of an object. People usually call the diameter of thumb and forefinger open as one stroke, and some places call it one stroke. When used to measure the caliber of iron pots, people change the number of stamps into stamps, that is, stamps are replaced by stamps. The so-called stamps are actually stamps or slaps.
Later, with the advancement of society, the production technology of folk craftsmen has become more and more exquisite, and the production of large iron pots used by the people has become more and more standard. The external production technology has gradually formed a relatively uniform size. According to the current standard of casting diameter, the diameter of the mouth of the six-printing pot is generally 60 cm, the diameter of the mouth of the seven-printing pot is generally 66 cm, and the diameter of the mouth of the eight-printing pot is generally 72 cm. Nowadays, with the continuous development of science and technology, all kinds of pots appear in people's lives, and large iron pots are no longer the only cooking utensils in people's lives.
However, in the eyes of our rural people, no matter what kind of pot is cooked, the food is not as delicious as that cooked in a big iron pot. At present, the rice and fried dishes cooked in these pots lack the smoky flavor compared with the rice cooked in a wood-fired iron pan, and it is precisely this natural flavor that only wood-fired iron pan can be integrated into the ingredients. The food made with this flavor just feels charming and makes people particularly like it. In addition, in our rural areas, "pot" has another different meaning. The pot is a symbol of living at home and an index of family harmony and happiness. Only when there is a pot at home can it be stable.