Things in memory (4) Shaving your head

My hair is growing again. I found the electric barber scissors and buzzed in front of the mirror. It was finished in less than five minutes. In the mirror, a shiny bald head.

I'm not afraid to make you laugh. When I say my hair has grown, it is only half an inch. I shaved my head early. I started shaving my head at the age of 50. At the age of 40, "the place is not protected by the central government." I remember when I was in my thirties, my hair began to become sparse.

But when I was young, my hair was thick and curly, and it grew faster. I had to cut it for 20 days in almost half a month. At that time, a haircut was called a haircut, and the master who shaved my head fiddled with it for a while, leaving black hair all over the floor.

Barbers use manual hair clippers, also known as hair clippers, which are old objects that have existed for more than 100 years.

Hair clipper's "bang, bang" sound on his head seems to be still in his ear, and it seems far away. At that time, the barber picked a pole, burned a copper basin, sat on a stool in a box, walked from village to village, stood in the shade of the village head, and the business began. This is how the two-part allegorical saying "Shaving one's head and carrying one's load-getting hot-headed" comes from. Later, "cutting the tail of capitalism", the brigade gathered craftsmen and set up a comprehensive society. If you want to shave your head, you must go to the street.

There is a comprehensive society in Shangdian Street, Sanligang. Among them, there is a barber named Liu. His family, like mine, is also a retail investor in Chengguan Town of Sui County. I remember, at that time, I had to shave my head, buy tickets and queue up to shave my head. Children 1.5 points, adults 20 points, shaved head 1.5 points. This was in the 1970s.

In order to save money, my family once bought a pusher, and the heads of our three brothers naturally became the mother's experiment. Every time we shave our heads, our heads become the laughing stock of our friends. You touch them, he touches them, saying that they are "touching a new head." In fact, being laughed at is secondary. The point is that every time I shave my head, my mother's skills and scissors are not sharp, and my hair can't get up. After several scratches, the fader was put on the shelf. When your hair grows, you still have to go to the electric street to shave it.

Only men, including adults and children, shave their heads in Shangdian street. At that time, women were not interested in going to the barber shop. If their hair grows, they will do it at home. Unlike the hairdressing and beauty clubs that are now all over the street, most of them are aimed at women. Now they are called "doing hair", and they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on elaborate production. However, there are few barbershops specifically for men. I remember that the last glory in Suizhou was the "Xiangyang Barber Shop" on Grand Cross Street. Once upon a time, it disappeared quietly without knowing it.

I haven't been to a hair salon for many years. I don't like young girls with strong and cheap perfume on their heads, and I don't like fashionable young guys who always cut my hair. I'm afraid the technology of that superfine product is not good, and the razor will hurt me.

But all over the street, there is not a decent master with an old-fashioned haircut chair, scissors and a knife at the mercy.

I miss that era. I miss hair clipper's voice when I shaved my head. Miss lying in the barber's chair, half asleep and half awake in the sound of a razor; I miss the relaxation of bones and the intracranial climax of pulling out ears after the barber shaves his head; I also like the old master saying that the work is finished, and the towel is so crisp in one breath.

An era represents a spirit, a pleasure and an attitude towards life.

A slow-paced era has been replaced by a high-speed development era today, but I still can't help but remember it quietly.

Shaving hair is an ancient business, and all masters make a living by craft. Ten masters and ten wigs are old masters, which are hard for young people to meet, and they have to endure the old job, unlike the beauty salons that are younger, more beautiful and more popular now. The master's skills are different. Observing their skills is like dancing on the tip of a knife, moving a knife on the head and dancing a sword around the neck, which is quite thrilling. I won't come when my hair is shaved. If you are wrong, there is no regret medicine. Improper use of razor will cut the skin and bleed. Therefore, there is still a lot of knowledge in a seemingly simple portrait to make the hair handsome and show the spirit.

Masters have different eyes, different experiences and different aesthetic tastes. People of all colors who come to shave their heads also have different professional hobbies and personality characteristics. If they have to do what they like, they will win the satisfaction of customers, otherwise they will break their own signs.

Most experts have unique skills, all of which are housekeeping skills, and will not show them to the world until the critical moment. They have their own characteristics. It is interesting to observe their skills and postures, as well as their skills and facial expressions, which reveals their life experiences and their own cultivation.

Listening to their conversations, chatting about interesting things in the streets and making fun of each other, is like reading their lives, sitting there and observing, which is very interesting.

In the 1970s, the comprehensive club on Shangdian Street was run by the Red Army Brigade, and the barber shop was in the comprehensive club. There are sewing, oil production, milling, playing with flowers, carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, repair shops and other projects. In the comprehensive society, it is like a hodgepodge, bringing together all kinds of craftsmen. There are three barber chairs in the barber shop, and Master Liu mentioned above is one of them.

Master Liu is about 45 years old, of medium build, neither fat nor thin, with fine features, straight figure, clean clothes and a towel around his neck, which makes him feel different. It would be perfect if it weren't for his lame left leg. Because it was handed down from Chengguan Town, the craftsmanship is naturally different, and the shaved head has quite the style of Chengguan. Therefore, there are not a few young people who prefer to wait for the exclusive team.

The barber next to Master Liu seems to be surnamed Huang. He is in his fifties. He heard that his ancestors were from Jiangxi. The old man also pays great attention to his appearance and speaks politely. He looks like a man who has seen the world. He always carries a small comb with him and combs it on his head from time to time. His hair is shiny. When he has a haircut, the hair clipper is also unhurried, but I don't like to ask him to shave his head because he is not as fashionable as Master Liu.

There is also a barber whose last name is forgotten. He performed like a magician with a razor. He is very skilled, fast and slow. When he is sexually active, he holds a towel in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, throwing foam again and again, which is dazzling. Many people who want to shave their heads like to find him. He is an old trick in his hometown. He cut the baby's hair and shaved his head. No matter how naughty, crying and unruly the child is, it will be done in a few minutes.

It seems that this short period of time actually includes decades of basic skills, which I practiced with my master since childhood. One minute on stage, ten years off stage.

I still remember shaving my head when I was a child and listening to a story told by a barber. It is said that in ancient times, there was a king who was ferocious and cut off many people's heads. One day, a barber shaved his head. The barber fiddled with the razor and dropped it. When it falls, it is a lock of hair. The king was so scared that he never dared to kill anyone again.

This story is of course told to children. However, it is true that "nine old craftsmen, eighteen craftsmen, each doing his own thing". No matter whether I used to walk the streets or sit in a shop and shave my head, I really didn't dare to walk the rivers and lakes without any real kung fu. In the past, learning art from children, especially haircut, relied on children's understanding and spirituality, and not everyone would be attracted by masters. In the past, razors were all made by hand, and the masters played with knife work, decades of kung fu, forging knife technology and cutting edge.

When using hair clipper, fingers, wrists and wrists should be balanced, and Zhang Chi should be in place at one time, otherwise it will pinch hair and hurt; When you push, you should not swing at will, but push evenly, so that your hair can be cut smoothly and beautifully. Many apprentices, after studying for three years, start to let you try to eat customers, and they must accept it, otherwise it will be difficult to get food.

Scissors and razors are diners of people who shave their heads. Only when the eaters are taken care of can they eat.

Later, because of the popularity of electricity, the push shear was still push shear, but it became a charged push shear; A razor is still a razor, but no one uses it anymore. People use electric razors and put them in their desks. They take them with them on business trips and can take care of them at any time. If you want to shave more cleanly, the "Geely" blade holder is definitely more convenient and better than the traditional razor.

The progress of an era is like the waves of rivers, lakes and seas. The front waves hit the beach and were instantly baked by the hot sun, and the bubbles were annihilated, making it difficult to leave marks. The performance of this plot can only be described by words, and can also be vividly reproduced by high-definition images.

Many past lifestyles are slowly fading out of people's sight, and many old things will be lost by time, including faders. These old things, like passing clouds, can only be vaguely left in people's memories.

Legs, an old object with a history of more than 100 years, have withdrawn from the historical stage.

It used to bring beautiful decorations to men, and how many sloppy images were radiant and handsome under its caress. The spiritual pleasure it brought to men has never surpassed its own shape.

Today, many people have forgotten its existence or even its appearance, but it has carried a period of history in the long years of a hundred years and is an indispensable part of men's daily life. This history should go down in history, go down in history.

Bye, Fred.