What does a straw hat mean when it is used as a pot cover?

"Yunnan eighteen eccentrics, straw hats as pot covers." At first glance, on second thought, the straw hat is a shelter from the wind and rain. How can it be used as a pot cover?

What happened in Yunnan is really strange. Foreigners often hear this "strange" and probably think so.

But in many places in Yunnan, especially in southern Yunnan, no matter what the difference is, straw hats are used as pot covers. In southern Yunnan, every household has one or two "straw hat covers" in their kitchens.

The so-called "straw hat as a pot cover" is just that the shape of the pot cover looks like a straw hat, the top is wide, and the shape is like a cone. It is woven with grass thatch, and the straw hat is used as a pot cover, so there is the "eighteen eccentrics in Yunnan, and the straw hat is used as a pot cover". Yunnan is located in the border, with inconvenient transportation, and most of the daily necessities are made from local materials. Take thatch as the core, wrap it with reed bark, twist it into straw rope with a wood wringer, roll it into a straw hat, string it with reed bark and fix it, and a straw pot cover is completed.

A straw pot cover can be used for at least half a year or more. This thing is not afraid of water, because reeds are things in water; It smells good, because the thatch comes from Shan Ye. The food cooked with a straw pot cover is more delicious than that cooked with a metal pot cover, and there is no "steaming sweat", which will not condense into water and spoil the rice.

If you really want to sit on the grass mound and have a meal under the grass pot cover, you might as well sit among the farmers in the suburbs of Kunming and along the Dianchi Lake. It is a pleasure to listen to the dialect hummed by the old lady with little feet in Jianshui, appreciate their humorous words and see how the straw hat in the kitchen is used as a pot cover.