Basic meaning: chopping block, a slate used by women to pound clothes in the past. Clothes washed with starch wrinkle easily. When they are half dry, put them on the chopping block and beat them with a wooden stick to remove wrinkles. At the same time, it also makes the beaten clothes very comfortable to wear. The sound of the anvil is the sound of smashing clothes. In ancient poetry, there are poems with "cold anvil", "clear anvil" or "dusk anvil" to express the melancholy mood of inviting people to leave their homes.