As a scientist, "Leonardo da Vinci" invented scissors, sketched blueprints for helicopters, and conducted research on human anatomy. Of course, he is also a world-famous artist, and one of his creations is the Mona Lisa. That’s the awesome guy who drew eggs when he was a kid. . .
It is really amazing. One has been used in BC, and unearthed cultural relics indicate that there were already scissors in the Western Han Dynasty. A large number of documents and materials, as well as cultural relics, were unearthed. The scissors of the Song Dynasty have been compared with Modern scissors come very close. How could it be the turn of a guy born hundreds of years later to invent it?
What a magical thing~
Scissors, as daily necessities, have a long history in our country. 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 our country. 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 in my country were discovered in Luoyang. Recently I had the opportunity to visit the famous Ancient Tomb Museum in Luoyang again, where I saw this pair of scissors unearthed from an ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, which is more than 2,100 years ago.
This rusty Western Han Dynasty bronze scissors is about 20 centimeters long, and its appearance is different from modern scissors. It has no axle eye or fulcrum in the middle. It just hammers the two ends of an iron bar into knife shapes and grinds them into sharp edges, and then bends the iron bar into an "S" shape so that the blades at both ends correspond. In this way, the scissors open naturally when not in use; when in use, people can cut the things to be cut by pressing the blades at both ends. Once you let go, the scissors return to their original shape relying on the elasticity of the wrought iron, just like modern people use tweezers.
Modern scissors have been greatly improved from ancient scissors in terms of shape, materials, craftsmanship, quality, variety, and functions. However, judging from the existing relics, the scissors used by people in the Song Dynasty are generally close to their modern appearance. The Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum also has a pair of scissors unearthed from a tomb in the fifth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1072). Its appearance is very similar to modern scissors. This shows that the current model of scissors in our country has been used for at least more than 1,000 years.