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A brief history of the development of Yangjiang knives

Yangjiang has three treasures: "tempeh, lacquerware and knives". Yangjiang knives have a long history and are well-known. They are sold all over the country for their sharpness, beauty, durability and other characteristics. They are exported to more than 60 countries and regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. They are among the traditional famous brand products of Yangjiang, Guangdong. The most representative product.

As early as more than 150 years ago, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty (after 1845), Yangjiang City's industry and commerce gradually flourished, and merchants from more than 10 counties in Guangdong gathered. Yangjiang County carried out a variety of commercial and trading activities, which greatly promoted the economic development of Yangjiang at that time. The handicraft industry was extremely prosperous. Traditional Yangjiang products such as knives, tempeh, lacquerware, and seafood became goods that merchants from all over the country rushed to purchase. Yangjiang knives were gradually sold abroad. , became known to outsiders, and promoted the development of industry, commerce, agriculture, fish and other industries in Yangjiang City at that time. Yangjiang knives have always been produced in the form of small workshops (blacksmithing shops) with small output. Therefore, there are more than a dozen such blacksmithing shops in the vicinity of the county's blacksmithing lane (still called blacksmithing lane). The products produced are always in short supply. In addition to kitchen knives, it also produces corn sickles, sickles, cloth scissors, daily knives, scissors and other products. Since then, Yangjiang Daoxu has been gradually recognized and respected by people, and its popularity is increasing day by day.

By the 1920s, Yangjiang's "He Quanli" kitchen knives had enjoyed a high reputation. The "Heli kitchen knife" created by the old knifemaker He Quanli was a unique skill passed down from his ancestors. Because of its clear steel and sharp blade It is sharp and can cut both meat and bones (small bones), so it is also called the "civilian knife". It is also loved by chefs because it does not require changing the knife from time to time. "He Quanli" blacksmith shop is located in the famous Batuou area around the county town. There are also many blacksmith shops gathered there, making it a concentrated place for making knives and scissors in the county besides the blacksmith lane area. Because He Quanli's kitchen knives are sharp and not easy to curl, merchants and restaurants in Yangjiang City have come to He's Blacksmith Shop to order their kitchen knives. Businessmen from other places also come here because of their reputation. At that time, each knife was made of 4 millimeters of silver, and the kitchen knives had wooden handles. Each handle was engraved with the three-character mark "He Quanli". Well-known restaurants in Yangjiang, such as "Zuiyue", "Jiangcheng", and "Nanqiang", had also been in He's house for a long time. Order the knife. Most of the kitchen knives produced by "He Quanli" are sold domestically and rarely exported.

From the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to the early days of liberation, Guangzhou's mass-produced kitchen knives "Double Lion", "555" and "Dongfanghong" successively flowed into Yangjiang and were mostly used by residents. However, restaurants still love He's kitchen knives. . In 1954, Yangjiang County established a handmade cooperative production cooperative, and "He Quanli" joined the cooperative and merged into the kitchen knife group. Later, due to large-scale production, the quality of the products was not as good as before. Soon, He's kitchen knives gradually disappeared. In addition, at that time, the county seat The kitchen knives produced by the "Sharp" blacksmith shop in Uise Potou also enjoy some reputation among the people, but compared with "He Quanli", they are still slightly inferior. However, what really made Yangjiang knives famous were the knives developed by the famous old knifemaker "Liang Jifu" in Yangjiang. They quickly occupied the market due to their good shape, various styles, sharpness, not easy to rust, curling edge, durability and ease of use, etc., making Yangjiang quickly occupy the market. It set off a wave of imitation fever, promoted the rapid development of Yangjiang's knife industry, and created a competitive environment, which continuously improved the quality of Yangjiang knives. As a result, Yangjiang knives gradually regained their former "heshan" and became famous all over the world.

In 1955, four knife production cooperatives were established in Yangjiang County. In 1958, the four production cooperatives merged into a local state-owned knife factory. Since then, Yangjiang knives have embarked on a development path of planned production; in addition to state-owned In addition to the knife factory, the Erqing Hardware Knife Factory, the Second Hardware Knife Factory, the Jiangcheng Town Hardware Products Factory, the Jiangcheng Knife Factory and nearly ten street-run knife production companies were successively established in the county. The products produced have also been rated as excellent and new products by the country, province and city many times. Among them, the local state-owned knife factory is the most powerful. The knives produced under the "Yangjiang" brand (exports use the "Zhuangchang brand") are mainly small knives. They occasionally produce kitchen knives because kitchen knives require higher requirements for steel. Or difficult quenching treatment technology, difficult to mass production. The local state-owned knife factory in Yangjiang was once changed to the "local state-owned Jifu knife factory" in the 1960s. This shows that "Liang Jifu"'s knife-making skills had a profound influence at that time. The old knife maker Liang Jifurong died of illness in 1961.

After years of development and expansion, the Yangjiang local state-owned knife factory has grown rapidly. With the deepening of China’s reform and opening up, individual and private knife and scissor enterprises in Yangjiang have developed rapidly. Yangjiang local state-owned knife factory and other state-owned collective enterprises have taken the lead. The pattern has been broken. Due to system limitations, management failure to keep up, and bloated organizations, the local state-owned knife factory in Yangjiang gradually lost its former advantages. It stopped developing in 1992 and 1993, and officially went bankrupt in 1997, becoming a key factor in the development of Yangjiang knives. A glorious history.

Yangjiang Shibazi Kitchen Industry Co., Ltd. (called Xiangyang Household Knife Factory from 1983 to 1997) is one of a number of Yangjiang private knife and scissor companies that have successfully grown up in the tide of reform. The founder Li Huizeng I worked as an apprentice, worker, and workshop director in a local state-owned knife factory in Yangjiang. I started my own business in 1983. After more than ten years of unremitting efforts and hard work, I finally established the "Yangjiang Eighteen Sons" that now represents Yangjiang's knife-making craftsmanship. Chopper Kingdom. Because its knife-making technology and material selection are at the leading level in the country, its products have won national, provincial and municipal famous, excellent and new product titles more than 100 times. It has become a well-known domestic brand that is well-known far and wide. It produces "Flyqiu" brand, "Dare to compete with foreign knives", "Shibazizuo" brand kitchen knives, scissors and other products. It once sold famous Japanese brand knives in the Guangdong Guest House. After the comparison, it caused a sensation. Even domestic traditional famous brands such as Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan and Beijing Wang Mazi gave thumbs up: Shibazi, amazing! Shibazi has become the "big brother" of Chinese kitchen knives and was recommended by the country to establish the "Chinese Kitchen Knife Center". He Chuankuan, the old director of the Yangjiang State-owned Knife Factory who has been working for the past 30 years, this strange figure in the Yangjiang communication room, is now helping his "apprentice" in the "Shibazi" company to fulfill his unfulfilled ambition and contribute to the " "Eighteen Sons" exerts its residual heat.

In people’s eyes, “Eighteen Masters” has become synonymous with Yangjiang swords. Many tourists even know about Yangjiang through “Eighteen Masters”. "Bazi" sometimes becomes synonymous with Yangjiang.

At present, Yangjiang Shibazi is striding to a new level of development with unprecedented momentum. It is the common wish of the Shiba Branch and even the people of Yangjiang to build "Baba Zi" into an internationally renowned brand. Yangjiang Shiba Zi has become a dazzling new star on the coast of the South China Sea.

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In the history of the party’s armed struggle, He Long is a glorious name. Among the top ten marshals of Japan and China, he is a legendary figure. In his early years, he used two kitchen knives to organize peasant armed forces and rose to the rank of commander in the old army. Later, he served as the commander-in-chief in the Nanchang Uprising and became one of the important founders of the People's Army. After the founding of New China, he served as the director of the National Sports Commission for a long time and made an indelible contribution to the development of sports in New China.

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