And a rough large hand raised up the scale, and the polished weight bent like a moon. When the weight of the weight of the same weight was moved to its platitude, as it was hanging the goods of the sun, “see, the scales are high” and then the buyer pays, the seller pays, and the trade is made out of the scales。
It's a picture of childhood memory, and it's a scene that's been in urban wells for centuries. It is recalled that, as a child, the small merchants who walk the streets, who sell vegetables and fruits, who sell rice, who eat guacamole, and who eat guacamole, each of them has a scale, which weighs the goods and the conscience。
The scale, the legend, was invented in the late spring and autumn by the merchants of san juan. Fan zhui found that people trading in the market are inconvenient and difficult to trade fairly. In order to resolve this dilemma, van guang is thinking hard. One day, fan zhuang saw a farmer extracting water from a well, first erecting a high stake at the edge of the well, then tying a log to the top of the stake, with a canopy of the log and a rock on the other, which would be light-handed. Fan guang was inspired to make the earliest scales。
With the scales, how do you measure them? Van zhen thought at night, when he saw the stars in the sky at night, he thought of marking them with the six stars of nandu and the seven stars of beidou, one star for one or two and 13 stars for one pound. The scale was 13 pounds, and then fan zhen discovered that some merchants were short of two, so he added to the six stars in nandu and the seven stars in bei dynasty, the three stars became sixteen and two pounds, and reminded the world that "if one or two of the merchants deceives one or the other, the good and the good will be lost; the latter will never gain the good, and the third will lose the sun." so the scales were passed down from generation to generation and continued for more than 2,000 years to this day。
With the spread of electrons, the scale, which condensed the wisdom of the ancients and the meanings of the commercial civilization of huashak, is also in danger of disappearing, and the craftsmanship of scale-making will, predictably, also become the art of old crafts. Like other older craftsmen, in the city's wells, in addition to the noises, there have been occasional appearances of elderly people who have become the heirs of these old craftsmen, who have struggled to keep them alive。
In the old alley of the town of gou, ryozhou, coolsan state, there is a teacher named cao who has been studying the trade of scale with his father since he was 10 years old. Over the past 50 years, master cao has made many changes in his land to feed his family by means of scales。
At the time of master cao's father, the scales were closely related to people's lives, and they were a popular craft. If you want to study the scales, you need to invite your master to stay at home and serve them well。
The scales consist of three parts, the scales and the scales, which are the most labour-intensive. Artificial weighting is extremely complex and includes several dozen processes, such as selection material, poles, drilling, eye piercing, scale, embedding, grinding, palettes, weighting, etc. Each process requires precision, and a small error affects measurement precision。
The weight of the scales is first chosen. The scale poles typically select aqueous redwood, which is texture, fine-structured; it is hard; it is not difficult to cut and it has smooth surfaces; and it has good light after paint, which is the most suitable for a scale。
Fresh redwood can only start production in the cold air for about a week. Once the scale master has rounded the scale and reached the appropriate size, a preliminary light is given to the scale. Two vertical ink lines were then ejected on the scale. After measuring the position of the nostrils on the scales, the holes are punched and the “nozzles” are tested. Both sides of the scale shall require copper coating, and welding of copper peels with welding on the end of the scale and grinding of a little。
The scales can be installed only after these processes have been completed. In the scales, the number of different weights shall be placed in order, the distance shall be determined on the scales, the position of the stars shall be divided by two feet and carefully marked. Each small flower spot is drilled out, and in the drilling hole, it is slit with a thin copper wire。
And then, the scale master's going to have to sharpen the scales even further, paint them and wait for the past coloured scales. When the pole is fully dry, the scale above (i. E., the "star flower") is made more visible by a final polishing of the scale。
Today, electronic scales, scales, etc., become the “dominant” of what is called objects, and fewer and fewer people use the scales. Added to the complexity and low profitability of manual scales, master cao's shop now also operates some electronic scales and mechanical scales to maintain operations。
Master cao came here to buy the scales, mostly from small vendors in the neighborhood. With master cao's age and poor eyes, he has worked hard to weigh the remaining 200 and 300 scales, which he intends not to do. It is unfortunate to think of the loss of scale, master cao: “although there will be fewer and fewer of those who will use the scale, the scale from their ancestors cannot be lost, and hopefully someone will follow.”
"as long as it's a move, it's a responsibility to stare at the tail. It's not a trade, it's a matter of heart."
The scale is the oldest and still used measurement tool in china. It is more humane than the electronic scale. It has a human character. It is also a business that reflects the uniqueness of our country's incarnation. Chinese talk about the human nature of a given principle, different from the precision of the foreign rigidity principle。
The rest of the vontade tourist network and the media column: retribution: 2016. 04. 26
