Memory (4) Shaving the head

Hair is long again, looking out for electric push clippers, in the mirror, "buzzing", less than five minutes to finish. In the mirror, a shiny bald head.

To say that you are not afraid to laugh, said the hair is long in fact only a small half-inch long, I toppled early, 50 years old began to shave his head, 40 years old, "the place does not protect the center", remember more than 30 years old, the hair has begun to become thin.

But when I was young, I had a head of thick and slightly curly hair, long and fast, almost half a month 20 days, you have to take care of a haircut. At that time, haircutting is called shaving, shaving the master, drumming on my head for a while, fell a black hair.

The shaving master used a manual pusher, also known as push clippers, an old object that has existed for more than a hundred years.

The sound of the pusher on the head "giggling, giggling" seems to be still in the ear, but it seems to be very far away. At that time, the shaver pick a pick, one side of the stove copper pot, a side of the box stool, walking from village to village, to the village under the shade of the flute up, business began, "shaving pick - a head of hot" hysteria, that is how it came about. Then later, "cut the tail of capitalism", the brigade put the craftsmen together, set up a comprehensive society, to shave the head to the street.

There is a comprehensive society on the street of Sanliang Shangdian, in which there is a shaving master surnamed Liu, his family is also the same as my family, but also with the county Chengguan town of decentralized households. I remember, that time to shave a head, to buy a ticket, but also stand in line, shaving a head, children 15 cents, adults 20 cents, shaved head 15 cents. this is the 1970s.

In order to save money, my family had also bought a pusher that year, and our three brothers' heads naturally became the mother's test subjects. Whenever you shave your head, our heads become the object of ridicule of our buddies, you to touch, he came to touch, said "touching the new head". In fact, the ridicule is not the second, the key is that every time you shave your head, your mother's skill and the sharpness of the pusher is not sharp, often caught in the hair, up and down can not. After a few shaves, the pusher was put on the back burner. The hair is long, still have to go to the street to Shangdian to shave.

The only people who come to shave their heads on Shangdian Street are men, including adults and children. In those days, it was not fashionable for women to go to shaving stores, and if their hair grew long, they would do it themselves at home. Unlike now full of hair and beauty clubs, most of the street is for women's services, now called "do hair", a head of fine drumming for half a day, often costing hundreds of thousands. Instead of specializing in men's barber stores are rare, I remember the last glory of Suizhou City is the Grand Crossing Street, "Xiangyang barber store", once upon a time, unknowingly disappeared silently.

I haven't patronized a hairdresser's business in years. I don't like to be covered with a strong smell of cheap perfume wearing exposed young girls drumming on my head, also don't like to wear fashionable but always through the strange young man to give me a haircut, I'm afraid of the small master of the craft is not good, razor to me to hurt.

But all over the street, I can't find the old shaving chair, holding a pusher, swinging the knife on the cloth, "hoo-hoo" swinging the knife, a decent shaving master.

I miss that time. I miss shaving, push in the ear "giggle, giggle" sound; I miss lying in the shaving chair, in the razor's "sizzle" sound half-asleep, half-awake; I miss shaving master shaved his head, the relaxation of the pine bone and pulling out the ears of the intracranial orgasm; but also like to teacher said that the work! Finished, the towel that threw the "snap" sound like a sigh of relief.

An era represents a spirit, a kind of fun, an attitude to life.

A slow-paced era has been replaced by a high-speed development of today, but I can not help but quietly remember.

Shaving is an ancient trade, the masters are relying on the skills to eat. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones. Masters of the craft is also unique, not the same, to observe their skills, like dancing on the tip of the knife, the head of the knife, neck dance sword in general, quite a few thrills, excitement. Hair shaved off there is no come, wrong, there is no medicine for regret, razor with not skilled refinement, will also break the skin and bleed. Therefore, it seems simple a head, to take care of the hair handsome also show spirit, inside the learning is still very big.

The master's vision is different, different experience, aesthetic interest is different, to shave the head of people of all colors, occupational hobbies, personality traits are also different, have to throw their favorites, will win the customer's satisfaction, otherwise it will be smashed their own signboard.

Most of the masters have a handful of stunts, which is the watchman's skill, not until the critical moment is not going to show the world, they have their own characteristics, to observe their skills, gestures, as well as their techniques, facial expressions, interesting phase of the ring, which reveals their life experience, as well as their own cultivation.

Listening to their conversations, chatting about the streets and alleys, and flirting and joking with each other is like reading about their lives, sitting there and observing, and it feels like a lot of fun.

In the seventies, the comprehensive society on Shangdian Street was run by the Red Army Brigade, and the head-shaving store was in the comprehensive society. Comprehensive society also sewing, oil extraction, milling, playing flower playing sets, carpenters, blacksmiths, masons, repair rooms and other various projects, like a hodgepodge, all kinds of craftsmen gathered together. Shaving the head of the store has three shaving chair, the previously mentioned devolved Master Liu is one of the shaving master.

Liu master about 45 years old, medium build, not fat, not thin, eye clear eyebrows, straight body, wearing clean, neat clothes, a towel casually resting on the neck, feel different, if not for the left leg is slightly not carefully look at the small crippled, can be said to be perfect. Because of the devolved from the town, the craft is naturally different, shaved head quite a city style. So the young people who line up for him would rather wait for a few.

Liu master next to the shaving master, seems to be surnamed Huang, more than 50 years old, I heard that the ancestors are from Jiangxi, the old man is also very concerned about their instruments, talk about Wen, it is a person who has seen the world, he always carries a small comb, from time to time in the head comb, hair care of the shiny hair. He cut hair with a pusher is also not slow, slow and methodical, but I do not like to find him shaved, smacked him without Liu shaved the new trend of fashionable.

There is also a shaving master, last name what I forgot. He a razor, play like juggling, very skillful, fast and slow, sex up, left hand towel, right hand knife, foam flung out in succession, dazzling. A lot of people who want to shave their heads, like to find him. He is a native of the township of the old style, to the child haircut, shaving fetal head, no matter how naughty children, crying and disobedience, in his hands is also a few minutes to get it done.

It seems that this short time, in fact, is hidden decades of work, is practiced from childhood with the master, a minute on the stage, ten years of work under the stage.

I remember shaving my head as a child and listening to the shaving master said a story. Said that in ancient times there was a king, the nature of killing, cut the head of many people. One day, there is a shaving master to shave his head, the shaving master to play the razor flying around, thrown on the put down, razor is a lock of hair down. The king was stunned and frightened, and never dared to kill again.

This story is, of course, to coax children. However, it is true that "nine old eighteen craftsmen, rows and rows of talented people". Whether it was once the street, or sit store shaving, without a little real skill, but also really dare not walk in the jungle, the past to learn the arts, especially barbering, are from the children to learn, but also depends on the children's enlightenment and spirituality, learning from masters, not everyone will be masters look at the past razor, are man-made, the masters play is the knife, decades of kung fu, the forging technology, the knife blade is very pay attention to, a razor, a pusher, follow the master for decades, are in the skill to beg for food.

When using the pusher, the finger force wrist and wrist should be balanced, one by one in place, tension, otherwise it will clip the hair, raw pain; push can not swing freely, balanced advancement, the hair only smooth, good-looking. A lot of apprentices, is to see three years to learn three years, before you start to let you try on the customer, you have to let the customer accept, otherwise it is difficult to get a meal.

Push the clippers, razors, is shaving people's food guys, the food guys to serve well, only to have food.

Later, because of the popularity of electricity, push clippers or push clippers, but became a push clippers with electricity; razor or razor, but no one used, people are using electric razor, put in the desk, travel with, at any time you can take care of. If you want to scrape more clean, "Gili" blade knife frame is certainly more convenient than the traditional razor better to make.

An era of progress, as if the waves of the river, lake and sea, a wave higher than a wave, the former wave was hit on the beach, instantly baked by the hot sun, the bubble annihilation into nothing, it is difficult to leave a mark. The performance of this plot can only be described in the text, or in the high-definition image to reproduce it in the exquisite.

A lot of the past lifestyle is slowly fading out of people's vision, many old objects will be obliterated by time, including the pusher, these old objects as the passing clouds of smoke, can only vaguely remain in people's memory.

The pusher, the existence of a hundred years of history of the old objects, has gone down the stage of history.

It once brought the men aesthetic modification, how much the image of the scruffy in its caress glowing reappearance of handsome, it brings the spirit of the men's pleasure, has always exceeded the modeling of itself.

History has developed to the present day, many people have forgotten its existence, and even can not remember what it looks like, but it carries a period of history in the long years of the century, is an indispensable part of men's daily life, this history should be recorded in the annals of history.

Goodbye, pusher.