The sentence that describes sparks when the iron is hot: molten iron flies for an instant and suddenly becomes stars all over the sky, scattered like fairies and dazzling. Ah! This is the wildest folk art that has been passed down in China for 5,000 years-beating iron flowers!
Introduction:
Ironing is a primitive forging process, which prevailed in rural areas before 1980s. Although this process is primitive, it is very practical; Although it seems simple, it is not easy to learn.
The blacksmith's shop is also called the blacksmith's furnace. The so-called "shop" is just a broken house. There is a big stove in the middle of the house, and there is a bellows beside the stove. As soon as the bellows is pulled, the wind enters the furnace, and the flame in the furnace soars into the sky. The iron to be forged is first red-hot in the furnace, and then moved to the big iron pier. The master holds the main hammer and the sledgehammer for forging.
Experienced hands-on, with a small hammer in his right hand and iron tongs in his left. In the process of forging, manual work should constantly turn the iron material through visual inspection, so that the square iron block becomes a round iron bar or the thick iron bar becomes a slender iron bar. It can be said that in the hands of the old blacksmith, the hard iron can be square, round, long, flat and pointed.