Craftsmanship

"Jiu Lao Eighteen Craftsmen" is a collective name given by Chinese folk to craftsmen who make a living by their crafts. Jiulao includes the nine trades of drawing pigs, killing pigs, gelding cattle, breaking walls, squeezing, shaving heads, mending pots, pedicures, and playing drums. The Eighteen Craftsmen include goldsmiths, silversmiths, coppersmiths, blacksmiths, tinsmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, potters, stonemasons, painters, bombardiers, bamboo cutters, carvers, painters, dyers, winemakers, hoopmakers, and leatherworkers. These craftsmen travel from village to village, using their craftsmanship to serve the villagers, and are closely related to their daily lives. They are not only Chinese folk artists, but also the accumulation of thousands of years of Chinese culture. Of course, these are things that all Chinese people know, but how many people know about the "nine craftsmen, six people and two gentlemen" of the Yinmen. The so-called Yinmen are people who work for the dead. They take care of the affairs of the villagers, ranging from princes and nobles to beggars on the streets. Although their professions are different, they are closely related to each other. It can be said that no one of them can survive. Anyone in this world who eats the food of the dead can be called a person in the underworld. And the leader among them is collectively called by the world: "Yin Men Nine Craftsmen Six People Two Masters". Among them, the nine craftsmen are the shroud maker, the paper maker, the coffin maker, the tablet carver, the corpse stitcher, the tomb builder, the beheader, the corpse remover, the suona maker, etc. The six people are the face-shaving person, the watchman, the person who retrieves the corpse, the person who carries the coffin, the person who guards the village, and the person who carries the body. The two big gentlemen are Mr. Wuzuo and Mr. Daochang.