What do old people in Baoding call a haircut

Elderly people call cutting hair shaving, and the person who cuts hair is a shaver.

What we now call barber, beautician, in ancient times called pending, shaving, tweezers, commonly known as barber, shaver, cosmetologist, etc.. Haircutting and cosmetology from ancient times has arisen, legend has it that Fuxi time has begun to vertebrae bun, no longer cloak the hair.

Ancient people pulled their hair into a bun, when the haircutting of both men and women are using combs and grates to bathe the hair and comb pectus. In a long time our country is not "haircut" "shaved" the two words, therefore, at that time, both men and women to keep long hair, only different ways of coiffure. It was not until the Han Dynasty that there were artisans who made haircutting their profession.

North and South Dynasties period, the nobleman's son of Liang in the South Dynasty, all cut their hair and shaved their faces, when the barbering industry has been very developed, the emergence of a full-time barber. The word "barber" first appeared in the literature of the Song Dynasty. Zhu Xi in the commentary "Poetry - Zhou Ode - Liangnü" in the "its than for pectus" sentence explains that "pectus, hair cutter also."