Home Categories Essays Eighty letters from a father in prison to his daughter

Chapter 9 A barber is a surgeon and a surgeon is a barber

Dear Xiaowen: Have you divided your class by hair color?Blonde is blonde, brown is brunette, buff is towhead, and red is redhead.The hairstyle is hairdo, and the hairpin (hairpin) is hairpin.The Chinese describe anger, so angry that the hair stands up and tips off the hat, it is called "so angry that the hair stand up and tips off the hat"; so angry that the hair stands up and tips off the hat; hair rises).Such words in English do not describe anger but fear, a hair-raising story or The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end.They are all written in fear, which means "horrible hair" in Chinese.No hair is called bald (baldhead, baldy, baldie), only bald forehead is called as bald as a coot, there is a famous saying:

Opportunity has hair in front but is bald behind. (Opportunity - there is hair in front and bald behind.) It means that once the opportunity is lost, you can’t catch it—bald, how can you catch it?This famous quote comes from (Aesops Fables), Aesop was a Greek slave (a Greek slave) 2600 years ago, this book is very good, you have to read it, like a child shouting: "Wolf is coming! The wolf is coming!" (Wolf! Wolf!) like "The dog occupies the manger" ("Occupies the hair pit and does not pull the repeat") are all stories in this book. The Chinese call monks "thief bald" and "bald donkey" ("pointing at the monk and calling the thief bald"), while Americans call intellectuals "egghead". Isn't egg and bald head very similar?Wigs are called wigs. British judges wear wigs, which are ugly.

Hairdressers who make hair for women are called hairdressers, and those who cut hair for men are called barbers. In ancient England, barbers were surgeons, and surgeons were barbers. It was not until King Henry VIII (Henry VIII) came out four hundred years ago that the barber was enacted. -surgeon is separated, but barbers are still allowed to perform bloodletting and tooth extraction, but surgeons are not allowed to shave.Now barbershop (barbershop) door has movable pillars, called barber or barbers pole, which is the bandage after bloodletting the patient in the past, and now it has become the signboard of the barbershop.When playing baseball, intentionally throwing a ball past batter's face, as if shaving someone's face, this kind of bitcher is called barber.

dad November 4, 1973
Press "Left Key ←" to return to the previous chapter; Press "Right Key →" to enter the next chapter; Press "Space Bar" to scroll down.
Chapters
Chapters
Setting
Setting
Add
Return
Book