What does the smelly stone on the white horse grain stone mean?
Because it is rich in asphalt and a small amount of flint nodules, the stone is tile gray or gray-black. Under the impact of gravity, organic asphalt produces a chemical reaction and emits a rotten smell. Geology calls this kind of rock "smelly limestone".
White horse pattern
It is a fact that "a white horse is difficult to become" and "a grain stone is difficult to become", because the base is too small and there are naturally fewer tangible stones. More than 20 years ago, there was a saying in the fishing ditch that "the stone with holes is priceless, and the stone image is miserable." At that time, there were many stones in every household in Baima village, which were real, but it was possible that there were no stones in a row that could really be seen.
In the years from the early 1990s, I went to Baima and Shan Yang to sweep the streets door to door almost every week, and I went there more than hundreds of times. The white horse carved more stones than the local stone farmers. "Strange stones must be tangible first", and only stones without shapes can be eliminated. At that time, almost all the tangible stones were sky-high prices.