Chapter Seventy-Nine: Pottery
So, is it that the people of the past were not smart enough, or that the people of the present are smarter than the people of the past? Qian Duoduo thinks that it is not, it is not that the current human beings are smarter than the previous human beings, but it depends on the field in which the human ingenuity is used.
The ancients were as clever as today, and they created many of the technologies that we still use today, and many of the secrets of antiquity that we still can't explain scientifically. So human beings are intelligent in any age.
The cycle of civilization is a certain opportunity that drives a certain stage of civilization, and no civilization is the apex or the end. Perhaps, it's just a starting point.
Qian Duoduo felt that she ...... Is it a civilized porter who rekindles the spark of civilization?
- Oh Ma, this is a bit lofty! What if you can't look directly at your own vanity?
Money is a lot of fun.
The tribesmen didn't dare to ask her what she was laughing at.
Qian Duoduo taught the tribesmen to make pottery, first teaching the most primitive clay plate building method.
They were in a two-story tutulou. The upper floor of the tulou was used as a meeting room, and the lower floor was used as a pottery workshop by Qian Duoduo. Not only was there a bonfire lit, but there was also a fire pit according to her requirements, which was very warm and comfortable.
A lump of iron-rich red clay is kneaded into mud strips, coiled upwards from the bottom to the edge of the mouth, and then slowly smoothed by hand to make clay pots and pots.
Qian Duoduo's technique is not skilled, she just watched others make pottery in the video, and she only knew how difficult it was to really get started, but this did not reduce her passion for pottery. According to the tribesmen, pottery is a luxury in this area, a relatively large pottery can be exchanged for more than 300 catties of meat, there is no doubt, this is a way to get rich quickly!
The mud strip plate construction method was too slow, Qian Duoduo tried the wheel method again, and asked people to find a stone slab with a protrusion on the back that looked like a spinning top, and used it as a runner. Gather some hay and let two tribal women help her turn the slabs and use them as turntables to speed up the making of pottery.
This method is a modification of the clay tray construction method, in which she spreads the clay on the flat surface of the slate and forms a circle as regular as possible as the bottom of the pottery, and then rubs another clay strip to make a circular clay circle, which is stacked from the bottom upwards and stacked almost four times, until a bowl-shaped embryo is almost formed. At this time, the two tribal women pushed the pointed slate in the same direction hard, causing the slate to turn quickly, like a spinning top.
On a very rudimentary and unstable turntable, the women had to control the speed so that the turntable was as even as possible. Then the oracle quickly made a pottery bowl with the help of the rotating stone slab.
This speed is more than a little faster than slowly folding clay strips and slowly kneading the clay embryo. When the slate rotates and the speed tends to a stable state, Qian Duoduo stretches out his hands and only needs to slowly smooth the semi-finished pottery embryo so that the inner and outer walls are smooth and flat.
Seeing this, the eyes of the old men and women who were watching and studying by the side shone brightly, and what they saw in their eyes was not the turning stone slabs and the shaped bowls, but ...... A piece of meat! One bowl can be exchanged for two roe deer, how many bowls can be made in a day? Their brains are about to crash, and they are in the midst of extremely busy calculations.
They know that the tribe is about to get rich!