Views: 5809 Author: YHA® Publish Time: 2022-02-09 Origin: YHA®
The sun was warm in the yard, and the snow outside the yard. Tenzin Solang moved out of the square stool and took out the electric clippers, flat scissors and combs. Wearing a down jacket, big-top shoes, and a blue towel on his shoulders, he transformed himself from a village headman into an authentic "hairdresser".
"Come for a haircut! Come for a haircut!" Hearing the shout, people in the village who were in desperate need of a haircut came to Tenzin Solang's house one by one. I saw that he was not in a hurry, debugged the tools, etc., and asked with a smile: "Who will come first?"
Because it is located in the deep Himalayas, with inconvenient transportation and sparse population, no barber shop is opened in Chulu Songjie Township, Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. Cadres and the masses are grazing and patrolling in the deep mountains, and getting a haircut has become difficult.
Tsering Dhondup, who was wearing a white coat, took the lead and sat on the small stool. Tenzin Solang bowed his body, stroked the back of his neck with his left hand, wiped his hair with a damp towel with his right hand, thinned his hair with a flat clipper skillfully, and then picked up an electric clipper to shorten his temples.
Tenzin Solang said, "If you cut your hair short, you will be in good spirits!"
There are only two hairstyles for Tenzin Solang's haircut - overall short hair and short sideburns. "Free haircuts, shampoo yourself, and bring your own headgear." This is his haircut notice, and everyone in the village knows it. Some people use plastic bags to cover their heads, some people wrap their necks in old shirts, some people use white lab coats instead, and some people just go shirtless.
The craft of haircutting was taught by Tenzin Solang by himself. When he was studying, he and the villagers in his hometown helped each other to cut their hair: the hair on the temples was cut short, the hair on the top of the head was cut thin, and the overall arrangement was neat and tidy. After joining the job, whenever he went to the barbershop to cut his hair, Tenzin Solang would pay more attention to how the barber cut and styled his hair, and the more he knew about the craft.
The people in the mountains have no concept of hairstyles. Usually, men cut each other, and women braid their hair and keep long hair. The village chief's haircut surprised the people in Chusong Village, and men came here to ask the town chief to get a haircut. Slowly, Tenzin Solang became a "hairdresser" for the cadres and masses in the village.
In the Chulu Group of Chusong Village, 48-year-old Tsering Gongsang is another "hairdresser" in the deep mountains. He told reporters that the first time he cut the villagers' hair, he didn't know what to do, so he just thought that he could cut it short anyway. Slowly, with more cuts, he also learned to style his hair. "No artist is daring", and his barbering skills have been practiced over the years.
"It was snowed here for half a year. In the past, everyone didn't cut their hair, and they were used to looking at each other. In recent years, everyone likes to be clean. If they have long hair like a yak, people will make fun of them." Villager Tomei Tenzin said , "Our village belongs to Tsering Gongsang with a good haircut!"
The principal of the primary school, Duobujie, is also a self-taught "hair stylist". His regular "customers" are 10 students in the elementary school. Pot cover head, heart-shaped head, apple head, ear-length hair, lightning current thread... All kinds of hairstyles, whether foreign or foreign, can be changed under Dobujie's hands.
Exquisite haircutting skills are forced out by harsh environment.
In July 2015, 24-year-old Dobujie was assigned to teach at the Apple Primary School in Songjie Township, Chulu. Soon after arriving at school, he found that no one was giving the children a haircut. After thinking about it, he decided to buy tools online and teach himself haircuts by following the mobile app tutorials.
It's better to go through it a thousand times with your eyes than with your hands. The township cadre Lausanne volunteered to be Dobjie's first "customer". Dobujie learned to cut while watching the video, and cut Lausanne's hair in a mess. In this way, after repeated failures, Dobujie gradually mastered the skills of haircutting.
"Teacher, give me a cool cat-face haircut." 8-year-old Laba Tsering said expectantly while sitting on a stool. The little girl Tenzeng Quzhen took it and said, "Let's grab a cat and put it on your head, and let the cat chew on it and it will turn into a cat's face!"
Dobujie rubbed the razor back and forth on the canvas strip a few times, slashed from the hairline, and shaved straight to the depression under the back of Laba Tsering's head, as if he had mined a wide road on the earth, dividing it into left and right. The two hemispheres gradually narrowed the encircling circle and became an "apple head".
Half a year ago, the school assigned two female teachers, Tenzin Sejen and Sanji, which also eased the burden of Dobjie's haircut work. Today, the two female teachers are responsible for braiding the girls' hair and taking care of their hair every day, and Duobujie no longer has to cut the girls' hair short.
Hard work, self-reliance. Although it is located in the deep mountains and is extremely difficult, the cadres and the masses in the deep mountains are always clean and refreshing. "A person with messy hair will appear uninspired; in a township, everyone will be clean and fresh, and they will appear full of vigor." Tenzin Solang said.
