With the continuous change of people's lives, some of the old trades are gradually disappearing from people's field of vision, and as many old artists grow older, many of the old crafts are slowly disappearing.
Rolled noodles
Noodles are an ancient beauty practice for women. There are also inheritors of related skills all over the country. The line is actually very simple, only two threads, a box of powder, an eyebrow tongs, and two stools for the stall owner and customers to sit on.
"Twisted noodles", also known as "open noodles", is a kind of face-repairing and beauty technique that has been spread in Chinese folk, only a box of powder, a few thin threads can make people's facial skin radiant, in the era of lack of cosmetics and beauty salons, this craft is loved by thousands of women.
in Fujian, Taiwan and eastern Guangdong. In ancient times, women in eastern Guangdong had the custom of "saving faces" on important occasions such as going out of the garden, getting married, celebrating festivals, giving birth to children, and funerals of elders. However, with the continuous progress of the times, the old business of hanging noodles has gradually disappeared from the public eye.
Dyer
Dyeing is an ancient profession, as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people began to try to grind natural ochre, cinnabar and other colored minerals or plants such as plants into powder or slurry, used to smear clothes to dye.
Dyers are people who have mastered the art of printing and dyeing, and they either work as technicians in dyeing workshops or go from village to village to print and dye bits and pieces of cloth for farmers. In general, people call those who work as technicians in the dyeing workshop as dyers or masters, and only those who go from village to village to dye cloth are called dyers.
Pickers
The merchant is a real "burden", a flat shoulder, each carrying a special wooden box at both ends. There are all kinds of gadgets in a box, such as big needles, thimbles, buttons, colored threads for showing flowers, hairpins, wooden comb grates, colorful head ropes, alabaster, incense powder, and mirrors.
Of course, the most missed by children is the picker. Their bags are filled with the best fruit candy, and no matter what the children exchange for it, they will leave satisfied. It's just that it is very difficult for various industries to survive nowadays, and it is naturally difficult to maintain a low-income industry like a picker.
Paper-cutting artist
With only a pair of scissors, a piece of red paper, under the light dance of the fingers, with the fluttering of the confetti, in a moment, a magnificent paper-cut works were born, there are harmonious farmhouses, there are crop harvests and so on...... Each paper cut is so beautiful and vivid.
Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. It is a kind of hollow art, which visually gives people a sense of emptiness and artistic enjoyment.
As one of China's world intangible cultural heritages, paper-cutting has a long history and is known as the art of the tip of the knife. It is a folk handicraft that uses scissors or a carving knife to cut patterns on paper and is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. It has a long history and unique style, and is loved by people at home and abroad.
Sharpener
Everyone who grew up in the countryside is familiar with the sound of "sharpening scissors - kitchen knives", and in memory it is so peaceful, so indisputable with the world. If you really study the origin of the profession of sharpening knives, it can be said that it is like a surging river.
In any kind of industry, there are people who do the ultimate, and this is the spirit of craftsmanship. In the old society, sharpening knives and scissors was also an industry, if the kitchen knife scissors were blunt, find a knife sharpener to polish it to ensure that it was extremely sharp. Small kitchen knives have also become consumables, and they are thrown away when they are bad, and the knife sharpening industry is lonely.
midwife
When it comes to obstetrics and gynecology in ancient times, "Wen Po" has to be mentioned, which is a person who was used by the people in the old days to deliver babies for women. Due to the historical period and the difference between the north and the south region and national culture, it has "hidden woman", "midwife", "midwife", "midwife" and "old lady", etc., which belong to the list of "three aunts and six women" in the rivers and lakes.
Midwives usually carry three large pieces with them: a red cloth wrapping in scissors, a towel in a wooden basin, and a small scale weighing more than ten catties.
In ancient times, due to poor medical conditions, mothers and babies often died due to hygiene and other reasons. Therefore, the profession of midwife in ancient times was not only a crisis industry, but also a frightening industry. Most of them are old women who are not old, and none of the young people are willing to do it.
In the 80s of the last century, the profession of midwives was still very common, and most of the post-80s births were delivered by midwives. By the 90s, midwives were not very common, and although the women in the village still used them to give birth, most of the women in the city chose to go to the hospital to give birth.
Shaver
In ancient China, there were many names for shavers, including shavers, edicts, grate masters, head shavers, head shavers, and cosmetic surgeons. In the "Book of Songs", it is written that "to send the music game, thin words to the foam". At that time, haircuts were mainly about hair bathing and combing.
In the rural "dangwei", you can often see the "head shaver", carrying a "pick" on his shoulder, and starting work under the shade of a tree with a back. I never saw the shaver in the bazaar soliciting business, and the price of a haircut was cheap, which was very cost-effective.
After shaving, a skilled shaver will also beat the customer's shoulder and back, which is equivalent to the current "massage": the shaver will smash the customer's shoulder and back, and finally end the shaving procedure with a crisp and loud slap.
In the past era, people had a discriminatory mentality against the service industry, thinking that it was serving people, and many people were unwilling to do it. But the head shaving masters have their own theories. They said that from the emperor and nobles to the common people, regardless of the nobility and the poor, they all have to be touched by my head to speak!
It's hard to hear the familiar shouts on the streets, and generations of old craftsmen are quietly disappearing and becoming memories in people's hearts. There are still many traditional old trades, and they have become rare with the pace of time, but it is undoubted that these crafts are of great significance in the history of the mainland.
These trades are gradually being banned, but some of the skills are worth passing on, such as the craftsmanship of the palm craftsman to make daily necessities and the superb manual lacquering technology of the lacquer craftsman, in fact, many traditional crafts should not be abandoned by the times, because many traditional crafts are the crystallization of the wisdom of the older generation.