Were scissors invented by Leonardo da Vinci?

China made and used scissors much earlier than Leonardo da Vinci. In fact, after textual research, the so-called "Da Vinci invented scissors" is actually a complete lie and rumor. Because as early as before the Da Vinci era 1600, the scissors in the shape of "cross-stranded curved ring" appeared in the Western Han Dynasty in China (65438+February 202-8 BC). This kind of scissors is made of a cooked iron bar, forged into a knife at both ends, and then twisted in half. This kind of scissors looks a bit like big tweezers or U-shaped scissors commonly used in fishing. There is no supporting shaft in the middle of this clock shear, and it is operated by the elastic force generated by the softening treatment of iron bars. Obviously, this kind of scissors is inconvenient to use. This kind of scissors can be seen that the oldest material object was unearthed in Baoji, Shaanxi Province in the 1990s. This pair of scissors has a straight back, a straight blade, and a flush front end. The blade and the back are crossed, and some of them are wound into an "8" shape, with a total length of12.8cm.. The earliest existing X-shaped scissors with supporting shaft in China were unearthed in Changsha ancient tomb. This pair of scissors can be traced back to the Five Dynasties (907-960). The five generations of scissors unearthed in Changsha are very close to our modern scissors. This era is also more than 500 years earlier than that of Leonardo da Vinci. This pair of scissors is basically consistent with modern scissors in appearance, and it is obviously much easier to use than the previous cross scissors. Scissors were found in the tombs of the Five Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the scissors in this period were basically X-type scissors with supporting shaft. However, after the end of Yuan Dynasty, scissors rarely appeared in tombs as funerary objects. This is because most of the objects used for burial in ancient times were expensive, but after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, scissors have become a common thing for most ordinary people.