Yangzhou's "three knives" are world-famous. Among them, the barber knife representing the hairdressing industry has been passed down for more than 500 years, the kitchen knife representing the catering industry and pedicure knife representing the bathing industry have been passed down for more than 2000 years. It is a veritable industry that enriches the people and absorbs a large number of jobs.
Yangzhou kitchen knife
Yangzhou kitchen knife is exquisite in workmanship and easy to use. Yangzhou knives are exquisite, including pre-batch, mid-cut and post-cut. Taking dried silk as an example, the beans with a thickness of 1.5cm were dried, divided into 24 pieces in batches, and then cut into dried silk, which was as thin as paper, as thin as thread and as uniform as hair.
Pedicure knife
Yangzhou pedicure, also known as "foot doctor", is known as the first in 360 lines. For hundreds of years, Yangzhou pedicure knife is unique with its superb skills. At present, there are 1500 foot art shops in Yangzhou with more than 20,000 employees. Yangzhou pedicure has also been successfully selected as a national intangible project.
Barber knife
The world-famous Yangzhou "Three Knives" is one of them. As one of the birthplaces of haircuts in China, Yangzhou has accumulated the wisdom of several generations, which is characterized by intensive work, diverse hairstyles and different artistic skills. Among them, the skill of "seventy-two and a half knives" was awarded the "first-class knife" by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
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Cultural background:
In the 2500-year history of Yangzhou, several booms gave birth to the prosperity and development of the life service industry represented by kitchen knives, barber knives and the "three knives" in pedicure knife, which gave birth to the unique "three knives" skills. This skill is integrated with the daily life of the local people, forming a folk culture that pursues "precision, elegance and beauty", that is, the "three knives" culture, which witnessed the diligence and wisdom of Yangzhou people and also demonstrated Yangzhou's exquisiteness and innovation.
"The country where flowers and willows are flourishing, gentle and rich", Yangzhou has gathered salt merchants since ancient times, and the leisure lifestyle of "packing water early and packing water late" has given birth to Yangzhou's famous "three knives" culture. "Three Knives" is a general term for kitchen knife, pedicure knife and barber knife. On the one hand, it is local traditional handicrafts. On the other hand, it is a kind of technology and art, and it has become a unique part of Yangzhou culture.
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