It is said that scissors were invented in ancient Greece in the second half of BC 1 1 century, and the style was that two knives were connected into a U-shape. The earliest existing scissors in China were found in Luoyang. This pair of scissors unearthed from the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty is more than 2 100 years ago.

This rusty bronze scissors of the Western Han Dynasty, about 20 cm long, has a different appearance from modern scissors. There is no shaft eye and supporting shaft in the middle, but the two ends of an iron bar are tempered into a knife shape to grind a sharp blade, and then the iron bar is bent into an "S" shape to make the blades at both ends correspond. Therefore, the scissors are naturally opened when not in use; When in use, people can cut things by pressing the blades at both ends. As soon as you let go, scissors will return to their original state by the elasticity of wrought iron, just like modern people use tweezers.

Modern scissors have greatly improved in shape, material, technology, quality, variety and function compared with ancient scissors. However, judging from the existing relics, the scissors used by people in the Song Dynasty are generally close to modern appearance. Luoyang Tomb Museum also has a pair of scissors unearthed in the tomb of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1072), which looks very similar to modern scissors. This shows that China's scissors model has been used for at least 1000 years.