What is the meaning of the phrase "shaving the head, shaving the head

This is a common saying. It is a metaphor for a thing where only one side is willing and the other side disagrees. One side is hot, the other side is cold.

The actual year of the shaving pick, is like this. Shaving pick, one end is a four-legged flared small stool, stool below three small drawers, the upper drawer is the smallest, is to put money. The second and third tiers are for cloths, knives, scissors, combs, grates, and other shaving tools; at the other end is a basin stand, with a copper basin on top, and a small stove below it, where the water in the basin is always kept warm and bubbling with heat. One of the legs of the stand extends upwards in the shape of a "d", with a steel razor cloth and a towel hanging from the pole.

The shaver walks the countryside is not to yell, holding a pincer-shaped steel, and iron rod composed of "call the head", to hit, make "when the clanging when the clanging" sound, to solicit business.

Shaving head to the village, choose a crossroads or livestock house door, people are more concentrated place, pull open the stall. The stall is placed under a tree or support a cloth shed, and then ringing "call the head" to attract customers.

Then I was six or seven years old, every time I heard the "call head" ring, and children chased around to see, mainly to see him sound "call head" fun. The shaver is usually an old man of sixty or seventy years of age, and he is very skillful.

Guests take their seats, shave their heads with warm water, towel dry, pick up the knife, in the steel cloth anyway, "cha-ching" steel a few times, a hand to hold the head, a hand holding the knife, "swish, swish," the knife up and hair down. After shaving the head with a hot towel and then wipe, hot towel collapsed in the face, shaving the head of the craftsman stops for a moment, say a couple of jokes, take off the towel shaving face, pull out the ears, cut the nose hairs; and finally pinch the shoulders of the two. After shaving the head of the person, the face is new, and the head and shoulder parts of the comfort and freshness, hand over two cents, bare face and then add five cents, the shaver smiled fascinated by the money into the drawer.

Especially on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, the shaver is the busiest. February 2 "dragon head", rural children to shave "dragon head". Are waiting in line, adults waiting on the sidelines, small children shaving their heads are in front of a "letter", after leaving a handful of "eight-year-old hair". The shaver was very quick, no need to wash, a few minutes a. One or two dozen a day. The shaver was happy to shave one or two dozen heads a day.

With the development of the times, shaving pick gradually by the "Hair Lang", "Hair House" replaced, shaving the head of the smith is also very difficult to take the business, this set of crafts slowly lost, the master craftsmen are also at home in their twilight years.