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Shaving and barber industry ancestor, whether it is Lu Dongbin Luo Yin or Guan Yu?

Three hundred and sixty rows, rows and rows, each row has its own respected grandmaster. For example, the carpenter's ancestor is Lu Ban, brothel ancestor is Guan Zhong,but for the shaver's ancestor, the statement is inconsistent,, some say is Lv Dongbin, some say is Guan Gong, and even more so that is Luo Yin, but the shaving industry in the end who is the ancestor of the problem, we have yet to be examined. In ancient China, a barber was called a shaver. It was a derogatory term, but with so many people growing their hair in ancient China, the business of the disciple was not as good as it is now.

Luoyin is rumored to have shaved the hair of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian, who had a son with a strange shape of a donkey's brain, and his apprentice didn't know how to do it, and many of his apprentices died for this reason. Until Luo Yin for Wu Zetian's son to cut hair, only to no longer have a hair-cutting apprentice because of its tragic death, Luoyin because to save the world's shaving masters, so be honored as the ancestor.

During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongwu became emperor. This Zhu Hongwu because of the scalp, so all the shavers were called into the palace, there is no live out of the palace. Because of the shaving of the head inevitably shaved the pain of Zhu Hongwu's scalp, he was angry craftsmen were killed innocently. This was known to Lu Dongbin. He became a head shaver and went to the palace in response to the imperial edict. Lu Dongbin with the sword into the razor to shave Zhu Hongwu, even if touching his head scalp sores do not feel pain, but rather cool and feel happy. From then on, whenever a shaver shaved his head, his scalp sores no longer felt pain. So originally no one dared to learn to shave the head, and then learn more people, shaving industry is also day by day prosperous development. They knew that this was the merit and blessing of Master Lu Dongbin, so they were very grateful to him and worshipped him as their master.

Guan Yu and the shaver both have a knife in their hands, although the purpose is different but Guan Yu's beard is long and flowing, which is more indicative of his ability to take care of taking the head of the enemy. He was particularly good at taking the enemy's head quickly, quickly and accurately. This is precisely the industry standard for a good shaver (barber). Of course, the fundamental reason why barbers recognized Guan Yu as their grandfather was because they felt that he was so famous that he had a big backer, so that the business of shaving heads could flourish.