According to archaeological records, the ancient Egyptians began to use bronze casting scissors as early as the 3rd century BC. There are scissors and some medical utensils carved on the walls of the Temple of Kom Ombo. Therefore, scholars generally believe that the Egyptians were the first to adopt surgical techniques.
However, the above-mentioned scissors are not the cross-type scissors used today. This style of scissors is believed to have appeared in the 1st century AD by archaeologist Flinders Petrie. In the 5th century AD, Isidore of Seville, Spain, described tailors and barbers using these scissors as their main tools.
Currently in China, the most famous scissor producers are Zhang Xiaoquan and Wang Mazi.
In addition, scissors have a long history in China. The scissors currently unearthed in a Western Han Dynasty tomb in Luoyang are more than 2,100 years old. Moreover, around the 6th century AD, scissors were introduced to Japan from China, and they began to be manufactured in large quantities during the Edo period in Japan.
This can be understood from the poem "Ode to the Willow" by He Zhizhang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "I don't know who cuts the thin leaves, the spring breeze in February is like scissors." The long-standing folk art of paper-cutting also proves the long history of scissors in China. The pictographic meaning of the Chinese character "Jian" is "there is a knife in front of the knife". The ancients also called scissors "dragon knives", which shows their importance in life. The earliest existing scissors of the current style in China were discovered in the ancient tomb of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty in Luoyang. A shaft eye was drilled between the knife and the handle, a fulcrum was installed, and the fulcrum was placed between the knife and the knife. . This kind of scissors utilizes the principle of leverage and is both convenient and powerful to use.