Cudgel is a Chinese word, pronounced bàng chui, which refers to folk washing equipment and is very popular in most parts of the country. Its shape varies from region to region and from nation to nation. From chapter 38 of Jin Ping Mei.
Word source:
(1) A wooden stick used for knocking.
The thirty-eighth chapter of Jin Ping Mei Hua Ci: "Take the wooden stick in your hand and hurry to type it out." Qing? Li Yu? The etymology of Qiao Reunion: "Take out clay figurines, earth horses, wooden sticks, gongs and drums, swords and guns, flags and other things." ? Shuo Yang? Equatorial Snow: "There is a kind of tree in Ye Er that is not long and is full of sticks and things like that."
② Shandong dialect refers to corn. Selected folk stories in China: Girl with mallet: "Look up at the stone hammer on the shore again, and there is a mallet with flaming red seeds standing there motionless." Corn is a "stick" or "stick" in Shandong dialect, but it is called corn in Northeast China. Corn occupies a high proportion in the food distribution structure of Shandong people.
The dietary characteristics of Shandong people are mainly corn, which is ground into flour to make pancakes (pancakes are still a special food in Shandong) and porridge made of corn flour (Shandong people call this porridge bonzi porridge or corn grits).