origin: Chengdu commercial newspaper reporter Wang Mingping
recently, a hairdresser's hot tongs in the light of the frequency fire, the video's protagonist is 74 year old barber Wang Weimei Lord.
a red tongs, dip in the water, and roll over the hair. With "Chi... Chi... " The sound and scorching smell of the smoke and the white smoke coming from the hair... This is not a sentence, but a popular way of perm, which was popular before the 80s of the last century.
in Jinshi Town, three county in Mianyang, Wang Weimei, 74, still sticks to the traditional craft, the business is still red, and the people coming to the "fire clamp" perm come in a continuous stream. What worries the elderly is that this technology is no longer inherited and will soon disappear.
customers in the town barber shop lined up with a "fire trap"
in the Jinshi town of three counties, a barber shop without a shop name seemed very unattractive.
walk into the barber's, wooden chair, wooden table, a row of shampoo towels on a bamboo pole in the corner, a long wooden chair at the door, and a customer waiting for a haircut in turn. The scene makes people feel back to the 80s of last century. Wang Weimei and Ding Yunzhen, the shopkeeper, were busy cutting their hair while busy waiting for the waiting customers.
at this time, the 81 year old Yang Suzhen mother-in-law walked into the barber shop. "Beautiful teacher, I have run three times, I want to strike a fire today!" "Well, do it!"
10, after more than a minute, after finishing the hair corner, the "fire trap" perm will start.
"does the tongs burn well?" "Burn the red, you have to!" When Ding Yunzhen took out a red - burning duckbill iron tongs from the front of the door of the house, Wang Weimei had soaked in a little water in the bucket, holding a tongs in the first hand, taking a comb in the first hand, and rolling his hands skillfully on the customer's hair. The reporter asked, "what are you doing if you move so quickly and scald the ear and scalp of the customer?" Master Wang smiled and replied, "no, I've been burning for decades. I've never had an accident. I haven't been scalded myself."
Master Wang introduced that the tongs should master the temperature of the tongs, the hands should be combined with the maid, the temperature is high, the movement is slow and the hair is broken, such as the temperature is low, and the appropriate hair can not be ironed. In order to keep the temperature of the iron Tong, Ding Yunzhen used the red iron Tong to exchange it to master Wang.
so many back and forth, then prune, shampoo, blow dry, finally wipe the head oil will be completed.
why choose this old way to cut hair, Yang Suzhen introduced, "fire clamp" perm without chemical water, harmless to the human body, the head type hot, at least two or three months to recover, after the morning, with a hand to shape. She said that the Master Wang had a perm, and he only received 4 yuan for washing and cleaning. It was convenient and affordable. His worry skill no one inherited
Wang Weimei told Chengdu business newspaper reporter, he was 17 years old with his brother Wang Weibu to study haircut skills, brother in 1959 from the Jiangyou iron and steel factory to support big steelworks back, in the Mianyang Ping Zheng bridge state barber shop as an apprenticeship, learning from the start of water, shampoo. "I learned it from a state-run barber shop in Da Xi Street, Zhongjiang." In
1977, the brothers set up a barber shop in the town, the door to door, business is good. 3 years ago, brother Wang Weibu passed away, and now he has only one family to burn with a poker.
with the emergence of various perm technology, now in the city, the "fire trap" has no market. According to the introduction, his son has a job, not willing to learn this technology, his life with 3 apprentice, "all too hard and can not earn much money, do a while to give up, go out to work."
will be the old blacksmith of the "fire trap" duckbill iron Tong. Wang Weimei has only 3 pairs of iron pincers left. Now he is too old to do a few years. His only worry is that he has no inheritance. He was pleased that the local cultural station had been looking for him, hoping to apply this technique to the intangible cultural heritage. "My daughter-in-law said it was a little interested in this, and I'm going to pass it to her." Wu Fu Bin