Text/Jiang Fengjiao
(Ancient shaving scene)
There is a famous Saying in China - "Three hundred and sixty lines, and the line of action makes the yuan". This proverb is not known how many years it has been circulating, but it is a household name, known to women and children.
The so-called "three hundred and sixty lines" refers to the trades of all walks of life, that is, the types of work in society. As the saying goes: "Knock on the gong to sell sugar, each doing a line". Regarding the industry, there are thirty-six lines of records since the Tang Dynasty. Speaking of the industry, there is a very interesting phenomenon is the "grandfather" system, so there is a sentence of "three hundred and sixty lines, no ancestors and no standing". One trade is for one grandfather, but there are also several trades for one.
Legend has it that the grandfather of the barber industry was surnamed Luo and was a Hunan native. The name is no longer available, but I know that he is a poor Taoist.
Legend has it that the Yongzheng Emperor was cold and fierce, suspicious and suspicious. One day, when a eunuch was combing his hair, he somehow suddenly felt a stinging pain, and he was suddenly furious, suspecting that the eunuch had the intention of killing him. Without asking, he took the sword of the desk with his hand, and without even giving the opportunity to defend, he directly let the eunuch be in a different place.
The next day, Yongzheng changed to another eunuch to brush his hair. The eunuch was so frightened that his hands and feet trembled, and he carefully twisted up a few strands of hair, and he heard Yongzheng roar! The little eunuch didn't know what was going on, but he only felt a chill in his neck, and his soul returned to the underground mansion.
It turned out that Yongzheng had several head sores on his head, and it had slowly festered, because he had not combed his hair the day before, and his hair was stuck together with the pus of the head sore, and although the little eunuch was careful, he accidentally pulled the adhesion of his hair and head sore. Yongzheng ate the pain, and suddenly looked like a wolf, and no matter what the reason was, at the moment, another knife resulted in the life of this little eunuch.
(Ancient proxy scenario)
After a few days like this, almost all the little eunuchs who served Yongzheng were killed, causing panic and chaos up and down the palace. The eunuchs elsewhere were afraid that this bad luck would fall on their heads, so they gathered together to discuss for half a day, and finally asked the eunuch general to give Yongzheng a word: "Emperor, these slaves are clumsy and clumsy for a while, and they are not well trained, but they are afraid of killing them all, and they will not find a replacement for a while." As the saying goes, 'the master is in the folk', why not summon the folk hair comber into the palace to serve the emperor? ”
At this time, Yongzheng had not combed his hair for several days, and the pain on his head was extremely uncomfortable. The chief eunuch listened to this, and the next instruction went on: All those who are engaged in combing their hair and shaving their heads must take the initiative to report to the palace and share the worries and worries of the widows...
As soon as the Holy Will came out, the momentum of trepidation suddenly stretched from the imperial city to the gates of the city. The first batch of hair combers who were summoned to the palace saw the fierce face of the Yongzheng Emperor, the thatched hair and the head full of pus, not to mention the hands, even the hands and feet trembled at the first glance, and they were frightened on the spot. As a result, all were executed or sent to the border. Suddenly, the hair combers and shavers in the city all abandoned their homes and fled, seizing the city and leaving, and those who had no time to escape also quickly changed their facades, and did not dare to do this unfortunate business again.
The shaver was thus extinct, and the people could still live, but the emperor was not happy. The emperor's troubles were not solved for a day, and the people did not want to be stable for a day. Sure enough, Yongzheng decided to find some folk daughters-in-law to come into the palace to comb his hair at the suggestion of the eunuch chief.
When this news reached the outside of the palace, there was a cry of mourning everywhere, the family panicked, and everyone was in danger...
This matter was later known to Luo Gong, who was Luo Gong? Luo Gong was the poor Daoist priest at the foot of Tianzi and in the Baiyun Temple in Beijing, who could not be linked to the profession of combing his hair, nor did he have a wife, sister, or daughter, but Luo Gong was upright and kind, and did not want to see so many innocent people die in vain, so he thought bitterly about Yongzheng's head sores.
Luo Gong did not sleep, and after three days and three nights of hard thinking, he finally developed a set of methods. He managed to make haircut tools such as razors, shavers, and braids, grates, etc., and developed a set of haircut operation methods such as pressing, pounding, and holding haircuts. After making sure that the operation was skilled, Luo Gong took the initiative to sign up for the palace.
Luo Gong took this set of unique skills to massage Yongzheng's hair. Wet the scalp with water, then gently massage it over the scalp with a grate and slowly comb it from the ends of your hair. In this way, Yongzheng felt that it was not painful or itchy, and Luo Gong was supplemented with medicinal powder, and Yongzheng's head sores were finally healed.
Yongzheng was very satisfied with Luo Gong's methods, so he ordered all the eunuchs to learn to use them, and they would no longer find trouble with those shaving masters and daughters-in-law. In this way, Luo Gong saved the shaved heads of the entire capital and became the object of worship and worship of the industry.
Later, Luo Gongyu was transformed into the White Cloud Temple, and was enthroned as "Cha Tan Shou Zhenren". After that, the shaving industry enshrined Luo Gong as his grandfather, and regularly went to Baiyunguan to burn incense to worship Luo Gong. Now there is a stone pagoda in the east courtyard of baiyun temple, which is said to be the tomb of Luo Gong.
(Luozu)