More than 50 years ago, when the old weaver was a child, he once went back to Xuanwei with his elderly grandfather and grandmother, and remembered that when the old grandmother cooked rice on the stove, there would be a lid made of straw rope on the iron pot, and I would occasionally ask my grandfather, what kind of thing is this? How is it like a straw hat?
Grandpa laughed and told me after listening to it, silly child, haven't you heard of the Eighteen Monsters of Yunnan? This is the straw hat as a pot lid.
According to the old grandfather, yunnan everywhere there is grass, grain grass, wild grass everywhere, just dry the wild grass into a thumb head thick rope, and then coiled, and then in the middle of the grass cover to leave a hole, put on the string, it becomes a pot lid.
In particular, it is commendable that the lid made of rope can be plated according to the size of the pot, and it is durable and low cost.
I remember when I was a child, there was a big iron pot for cooking rice, a small iron pot for stir-frying, a two-layer aluminum pot for steaming vegetables and steaming rice, and a large clay pot for cooking chicken and duck, in addition to the two-layer aluminum pot, other pots have large and small pot lids made of straw hats, which are hung on the kitchen wall in turn when not in use, and put on the pot when used.