What does a melon peeler do?

Melon grater is a tool for peeling fruit or melon skin.

1. It was introduced to China from Rome during the Ming Dynasty and made an important contribution to the development of Ming-style furniture. A tool used before the emergence of planes called 鐁 (i.e. scraping). There is no evidence to prove that our country before the Ming Dynasty had a planer, then only scraping. Scraping can only deal with softwood, hardwood operation will jump knife.

Planes were invented in the 16th century, and the planes used in China were pushed outward, while planes in other countries were pulled inward. The planer existed in Rome, it just wasn't introduced to our country.

2, that the Ming Dynasty when introduced into China by Rome, based on even more inadequate claims, only informative value.

China, whether utensils or architecture, the application of wood is the most, and the craft is also the most exquisite. Wood is extremely difficult to survive, but the visible remains of the Han and Tang dynasties (including excavations) of craftsmanship, it proves that the use of planes as a tool.

To think that the Chinese planer is just push no back pull, it is wrong. Planer just become popular in the making of large pieces gradually eliminated or gradually less use of front and rear hob planes, there are still double-edged or multi-bladed hob planes in the private sector, such as some areas of craftsmen to make traditional small wooden objects, including even furniture and temple architecture in the small pieces of fine work, are supporting the use of.

I remember once saw three kinds, one is different from the European planer, just a multi-edge line on the planer knife (called planer knife or planer), the second is a hardwood (basically mahogany in the ebony, rosewood, etc.) set of clamps, the specific style and structure have been unable to remember, the blade in the middle, the handle with a silk or leather rope wrapped around the wedge and called tight, the third is the middle of the hardwood clamps is a knife, hand control.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to see this old tool, has been largely replaced by the new work planes, so that we will be almost difficult to see and think that never existed.

Whether or not Lupin-made tools include planes, we can only say that there are no European-style planes, but we can't say that there are no planes or both affirmatively conclude in vain that there aren't any. Especially in the literal sense of the word wrong, scraping is what the European-style planer and the ancient Chinese tool is just a matter of structure.

And, the Chinese traditional planer knife is to do fine work, is our generation is not as good as the generation of fine work, poverty makes us more impatient to simplify the process, we marvel at the ancients when we thought about why we do not compare with the past, so there will always be a Western industrial dazzle misguided. Traditional Chinese planing tools are really helpful for fine work, especially with hard materials.

If you see CCTV reports on goldsmiths working with wood that's countless times more expensive than gold, you'll see the role of the planer in this, and you definitely can't use those neatly shaped planers of the Western fast-food nation.

Westerners are most adept at adding their packaging to Chinese civilization, which we then many not recognize. Many examples of civilizations that have long been proven to belong to our establishment are still referred to by us as alien civilizations.

Woodworking tools, you can look at the ancient Chinese shocked the world with the craft of building structures, China's timber appliances are also the world's rare fine craftsmanship, how can there be no need to planing material tools of great strength.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Planer