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Some origins of scissors
According to archaeological records, the ancient Egyptians began using bronze cast scissors as early as the 15th century BC. Scissors and some medical tools are carved on the walls inside the Temple of Kom Ombo, so scholars generally believe that the Egyptians were the first to adopt surgical techniques.
Note: Some scholars believe that U-shaped scissors had already appeared in Europe in the 5th century BC. (Whether it is true or not is still controversial, but academic reports and papers have been cited. This is to clarify.)
But the above scissors are not the cross shaped style currently used. Archaeologist Flinders Petrie believes that this style of scissors appeared in the 1st century AD. In the 5th century AD, Isidore of Seville, Spain, described tailors and hairdressers using this type of scissors as their primary tool.
Scissors have a long history in China. The scissors unearthed from the Western Han tombs in Luoyang date back over 2100 years. And around the 6th century AD, scissors were introduced to Japan from China and began to be manufactured in large quantities during the Edo period in Japan.
This can be inferred from the poem "Ode to Willow" by Tang Dynasty poet He Zhizhang, which goes: "I don't know who cut the fine leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors. The folk Paper Cuttings art with a long history also proves the long history of scissors in China from the side. The pictographic meaning of the Chinese character "jian" is "there is still a knife in front of the knife". The ancients also called scissors "dragon knives", indicating their importance in daily life. The earliest surviving physical scissors in China were discovered in an ancient tomb in the fifth year of the Xining reign of the Northern Song Dynasty in Luoyang. A pivot hole was made between the knife and the handle, and a support shaft was installed to place the fulcrum between the knives. This type of scissors utilizes the principle of leverage, making it both convenient and effortless to use.
This rusty Western Han bronze scissors are about 20 centimeters long and have a different appearance from modern scissors. It has no shaft eye or support shaft in the middle, only two ends of an iron bar are hammered into a blade shape and sharpened into sharp edges, and then the iron bar is bent into an "S" shape so that the blades at both ends correspond. This way, the scissors will naturally open when not in use; When in use, people can cut off what needs to be cut by pressing the blades at both ends. As soon as I let go, the scissors returned to their original state thanks to the elasticity of wrought iron, just like how modern people use tweezers.
It can be certain that in any country or era without scissors, people would use other tools to trim their hair or other objects, such as cutting with a knife, burning, and so on. In ancient China, the term "cutting gold and silver" used to refer to the process of cutting gold and silver was actually done using a guillotine.
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