Were scissors invented by Leonardo da Vinci? Then who explains "the spring breeze in February is like scissors"?

As a scientist, "Da Vinci" invented scissors, drew the blueprint of helicopter and studied human anatomy. Of course, he is also a world-famous artist. One of his creative works is Mona Lisa. That is, the awesome person who painted eggs when he was a child. . .

It's really amazing. One was used in BC, and the unearthed cultural relics show that there were scissors in the Western Han Dynasty, and a large number of documents and materials were unearthed, as well as cultural relics. Scissors in Song Dynasty are very close to modern scissors. How could it be the turn of a person born hundreds of years later to invent it?

It's really amazing ~

Scissors, as daily necessities, have a long history in China. This can be learned from the poem "Singing Willow" by the poet He in the Tang Dynasty, "I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but it looks like scissors in February". The folk paper-cutting art with a long history also proves the long history of scissors in China. The pictographic meaning of the Chinese character "Jian" means "There is a knife in front of the knife". The ancients called scissors "dragon sword", which shows its importance in life. The earliest existing scissors in China were found in Luoyang. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit the famous tomb museum in Luoyang again, where I saw this pair of scissors unearthed from the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, which has been more than 2 100 years.

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.