What were the earliest scissors in China?

Scissors have a history of more than 2,000 years in China. Ancient scissors are also called horizontal scissors, because there is no shaft eye and supporting shaft in the middle. They just hammer thin knives at both ends of an iron bar, and then bend the blade into a figure of eight. The fulcrum of scissors is in the last part. When everyone uses it, they all press it by the elasticity of wrought iron, which is a bit like the tweezers used now. Archaeologists once found scissors in the ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in Luoyang, Henan Province. Scissors were transformed into what they are now in the Northern Song Dynasty. Some historical relics have been unearthed from Xining Tomb in the Northern Song Dynasty in Luoyang. Among them, the scissors similar to the present one are to drill a hole between the knife and the handle, and install a supporting shaft to move the fulcrum between the knife and the handle, which is convenient and labor-saving, and it was a technological progress at that time. Zhang Si Jia of Qing Dynasty learned the manufacturing technology of sword, used high-quality steel to forge good steel embedded in the cutting edge of scissors, and created the technology of inserting steel into scissors. The quality of scissors is further improved. Zhang Xiaoquan, the son of Zhang Sijia, has been constantly innovating and reforming, and has made the style, variety, specification and sharpness of scissors on the next level.

At present, Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors has a history of more than 300 years, and it is famous all over the country with the traditional scissors produced by Beijing Wangmazi Scissors Factory.