What is Guanyin soil? What do you mean by eating Guanyin soil?

In rural areas, a kind of white soil can often be dug up. Those who don't understand think it's ash tree. In fact, this is what people often call "Guanyin soil". In yellow clay, it is usually very fragile. When it was first dug out, it was like white mud. After a little dry, it will be as hard as a stone. According to the old man, when there was famine in the past, people even dug Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger.

There are "Guanyin soil" in rural areas all over the country, and there are many different names, such as stove soil, fragrant soil and white mud. Guanyin soil is also kaolin, named after Gaoling Village in Jingdezhen. This is a clay mineral, which is usually used as a material for making porcelain blanks and glazes. Because it is rich in silicon, zinc, magnesium, aluminum and other minerals, its chemical composition is stable, and it is also called "universal stone".

As early as ancient times, there was a record of Guanyin soil in Wu Kai-Yan Tao in Tiangong. "The soil comes from Wuyuan and Qimen Mountains: a high mountain, from japonica rice soil, is hard; A civilized mountain, a land of glutinous rice. Its nature is soft. When the two kinds of soil are combined, porcelain becomes. " Among them, glutinous rice soil, that is, Guanyin soil, has been used by people to burn porcelain.

But people's understanding of "Guanyin soil" is mostly related to eating. In ancient times, people would dig Guanyin soil to satisfy their hunger in famine years. Dig out Guanyin soil, break it and dry it to look like white flour, and mix some fine bran to make cakes to fill your stomach. I've tasted it out of curiosity, and it's too earthy to swallow. Now even pigs and dogs can't eat.

Guanyin soil has no nutrition and cannot be digested and absorbed by people, but it feels full after eating it. There is nothing wrong with eating less, but eating too much can induce many diseases. The most common thing is that it can't be excreted normally and accumulates in the stomach, so that it is suffocated alive. But in desperation, we can only rely on it to eat, and many people have passed the difficult barrier because of "Guanyin soil".

The origin of the name Guanyin soil is mostly related to legends, and the details are no longer elegant. There is a saying that one year there was no food in the dry land, and an old man dreamed of Guanyin's guidance and said that rations were buried at the entrance of the village. So people dug up this kind of soil to eat until they were hungry and saved many lives, so they called it Guanyin soil. Of course, this is only invented by people, but Guanyin soil is famous for it.

In fact, Guanyin soil is not mysterious, nor does it say anything rare. It can often be found in rural areas. Eating Guanyin soil is also a helpless choice in ancient times, and now it has long since become a thing of the past.