The ancient elegant name for a comb

The ancient elegant name for comb is pectus.

In the ancient times of China, pectus and hairpin, hairpin, win, step rock, gold tin, baht flower, lezi and known as the eight major hair ornaments. Grate Kei is a kind of pectus, ancient women often put the fine grate Kei inserted in the bun as a hair accessory, and very popular.

The comb production is a superb Han ethnic skills, with excellent materials, the production process is quite elaborate. The main materials for the production of comb for bamboo, wood, animal bone, etc., of which, the bamboo is mainly from the south of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places of high quality yinshan strong bamboo, from these places of bamboo is not only hard, resilient, and durable, the wood is mainly used for mahogany, jujube wood, briar and boxwood and other valuable tree species. Comb made of boxwood, because of its fine wood, clear pattern, and has a headache, itch and other functions, especially valuable and popular. From the material to the finished product, a wooden comb needs to go through 28 processes, while a grate箕 has as many as 72 and a half processes, in which the extremely elaborate carving, tracing, ironing, carving, grinding and other processes need to be completed by the traditional craft production methods.