About the steelyard: There is a steelyard between heaven and earth.

The hook scale hanging in the corner of the kitchen has accompanied my family through a nail. The original rosewood-colored ba

About the steelyard: There is a steelyard between heaven and earth.

The hook scale hanging in the corner of the kitchen has accompanied my family through a nail. The original rosewood-colored balance beam has been slightly blackened, and the gold-inlaid head is covered with spots? Frost? I changed the balance knob lifting rope countless times and replaced it with a thin nylon rope. This is the wooden scale that everyone in my family is familiar with.

Speaking of wooden steelyard, there is another story.

In the late 1950s, when I was in junior high school, I walked under the stone bridge every time? Renxin scale shop? In the shop, you can always see many finished and semi-finished products of wooden steelyard hanging on the wall, which feels very novel.

? Renxin scale shop? Located on the south side of the old street, it has a history of one hundred years. Its ancestors moved from southern Anhui to Quanjiao for three generations, and its weighing technology is well known. Looking from a distance, two pairs of red and black couplets outside the store read? Renxin scale shop scales people's hearts? Eight block letters. The master is in his early thirties, and there is only one assistant in the shop, who is responsible for planing and grinding rods. The master said that he has been dealing with scales for more than 20 years, which means that he entered the scale shop in his teens and began to learn to be an apprentice as a wooden scale. From time to time, people come to buy scales, and others come to repair scales. I'm curious, how did the silver thin and dense scales on the wooden beams come from? For several afternoons, I risked my life. Skip class? I want to see with my own eyes how the scale master operates in the operation room of the scale shop. This time, I was born again. After a long time, I became friends with the master of the scale shop.

It turns out that making wooden scales is a very delicate craft. The technological process includes material selection, planing (rough planing and fine planing), soaking in alkaline water, grinding rod, marking, plug, cutting, sizing (determining the position of ruler star), drilling, sizing button, grading, drilling star, sizing, grinding ruler, coloring, tying rope, polishing, verification and certification.

The wooden scale is mainly composed of ruler rod, ruler hook, ruler plate, weight, ruler star, ruler ring, ruler button and other parts. Manual drilling is a delicate job. This drilling procedure requires patience. A slight negligence will drill through the wooden pole, and you can't make a wrong hole in the scale at the beginning, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain. A buddy worked as an apprentice in the shop for more than ten years before the master asked him to punch holes. After drilling the calibration hole, insert the thin aluminum wire into the calibration hole, cut it, beat the aluminum wire with a hammer, and file the protruding aluminum wire to make the calibration appear on the calibration bar. The scales are so thin and dense that you can't really do it without being an expert. A wooden pole scale with a load of 30 kg needs to drill nearly 300 scale holes.

The last process of making wooden scales is oiling. Brush the balance beam with oil, and after drying, the yellow-brown balance beam will gradually turn brown-black, and the silver balance star will be particularly conspicuous on the brown-black balance beam. At this point, a wooden scale is truly completed.

From the hook scale for weighing to the disk scale with the scale plate hanging on the hook; There are all kinds of scales, ranging from one and a half meters long, which can be called grain, bamboo and pigs, to small scales used in Chinese medicine shops, accurate to 0. 1 yuan. Around the 1950s, a group of people were active in Quanjiao County. Tick tick marks? Including grass line, fish line, chicken goose duck line, pig line, cow line, peanut line, bamboo line, charcoal line, lime line and so on. Are these all right? Owner? There is only one wooden scale, and the buyer and seller negotiate the price first. Owner? Take two houses in one hand, weigh them and work out the price. After the transaction is completed, get a commission of 2% to 5% from the seller. And most of the wooden scales used for trading are of this old brand? Renxin scale shop? .

I believe people will never forget the once widely circulated and well-known "official ballad" in the TV series "Prime Minister Liu". There is a steelyard between heaven and earth, and the weights are common people; You are the star on the stage. ? The lyrics clearly tell us the weight of the weights in the scales. It is not allowed to rely on weight when making scales, because both are manipulated by weight. The scale is invalid, which is determined by the scale button. The distance between the buttons of the scale also determines the weight of the scale. As the saying goes? Weigh your heart? . As a master of balance for more than 60 years, he is now over 80 years old. He witnessed the rise and fall of handmade wooden scales and adhered to the professional ethics of this industry. In the past, many black-hearted vendors were willing to pay several times more for the elderly to do it for them. Seven two scales, eight two scales? Take this? Black heart scale? To earn? Money? . Every time the old man drives these unscrupulous traders out of the house, he scolds them with blood. The old man insisted on weighing his conscience and resolutely refused to do it? Black heart scale? , don't earn? Money? Be an upright person.

Balance has a very long history and is widely used among the people.

Our ancestors began to use wooden scales as early as the first century AD. After Qin Shihuang's unified measurement, the standard was set at two per catty 16, so the balance began to be widely used among the people, and one business after another was concluded between the balance beam and the weight. In the 1950s, the People's Government of New China changed the conversion method to twelve taels per catty in order to facilitate calculation. In the 1990s, in order to be in line with the international standards, the urban system was changed to the metric system, and a thousand restraints were exercised.

In the folk, people regard the scale as a mascot, and regard it as? Be the god of wealth? , meaning? If you have a scale, your family will prosper. Meaning. The head of a family must be able to use a scale, otherwise he is incompetent, so there is a saying? It's hard to be a master if you don't know how to weigh flowers. In the 1980 s, reform and opening up, the whole people did business. The popularity of scales has entered a peak period. Because of its low price, portability and ease of use, almost every household has acquired a weighing scale, and some even have several weighing scale at home. Farmers use bicycles to bring agricultural and sideline products from their own plots to the city for sale. There is always a steelyard in the basket behind the car. In the late 1990s, modern measuring instruments such as electronic scales began to appear. Because of many production processes, high technical requirements and low production profit, wooden scales began to enter a recession, gradually replaced and gradually faded out of people's lives.

With the rapid shrinkage of scale industry, it is more difficult to find scale artists. Here? All of a sudden, the scale artist paid his youth and sweat: meticulous work and meticulous investigation, just for the craftsman's promise. Year after year, the hair turns white, and what remains unchanged is fairness, whether on the scales or in people's hearts. The wooden scale will eventually withdraw from the historical stage and gradually fade out of people's field of vision. But? Is there a steelyard between heaven and earth? 、? Weigh your heart? This old adage has been incorporated into the body and mind of everyone in the Chinese nation as early as in the blood.

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