Why is there a rotating light in front of the barbershop?

This has a long history, because in the Middle Ages in Western Europe there was a popular saying that bloodletting can be the disease, in fact, it makes sense to think about it, and proper bloodletting can indeed enhance the body's hematopoietic function and cell replacement, and trade in the old for the new. However, the doctors at that time disliked the bloodletting too low, so the bloodletting was provided by the hairdresser.

The light at the entrance of the barber shop has three colors, which are red, blue and white, red of course represents blood, blue represents veins, and white represents gauze. However, at that time, not every barber shop was able to provide bloodletting services, only some barbershops did provide it, and there were also special bloodletting barbershops that cooperated with doctors. Therefore, barber shops that can provide this kind of service will hang a sign in front of the shop to tell everyone that the shop can be bloodletting, and later because it is more eye-catching, it has been used as the symbol of the barber shop.

Officially known as the Flower Column, the tricolor column is a symbol used by all hair salons in the world.

It is difficult to verify its true origin, only that this mark was introduced from Europe, but according to the data, although there are many versions of it, two of the legends are more credible and <>

The following theories are: 1 During the reign of Louis XVI in France, the commoners fought against the totalitarian rule of aristocracy and for democracy, which is known as the French Revolution. At that time, a revolutionary in Paris went to a barber shop to hide in order to escape the pursuit of the enemy, and after the enemy chased the shop, the barber in the shop did not hesitate to falsely report information to the enemy for the safety of the revolutionaries, causing them to go in the wrong direction.

After the victory of the People's Revolution,** in recognition of the merits of the barber, the French red, white and blue tricolor flag was planted in front of the barber shop, which represents the flower pillar of the current hairdressing house.

2 Another theory is from the English Middle Ages, people believe that illness is mainly due to the imbalance of various elements in the body, and if you want to be healthy, you must draw out bad elements, and the human body is most likely to flow out of blood, and it can be natural when blood is released. However, the orthodox doctors of the time were not sure whether this unfounded legend was true or false, so no doctor was willing to perform surgery to drain blood. The only way to do the surgery was to rely on the barber as the surgeon.

In 1540, the King of England approved the establishment of a union of barbers and surgeons, and gave the instrument of approval to the president of the federation, Vickery. Since then, the barber has doubled as a surgeon and has used red, white and blue flower columns to represent arteries, veins and gauze. It wasn't until King George II founded the Royal Society of Surgeons that barbers officially left the Surgeon's brand, but the flower pole in front of the barbershop is still used today, and has spread all over the world as a permanent symbol of hair salons.

Everyone has a haircut experience, and when you get a haircut, you will find a red, blue and white rotating light box in both a high-end barber shop and an ordinary street shop. This is actually the standard configuration of a barber shop, or if you have this three-color rotating light box hanging in front of the shop, even if there is no sign in front of the door, you will know that this is a barber shop.

Barbershops are a division of medicine, or before the 14th century, when many surgeons needed to operate, they needed barbers to come into the operating room to help.

The 14th century was the Middle Ages, and those who have studied history must know that Europe at this time was Europe under the rule of the Church. People's thoughts, words and deeds must be controlled by the Church, and the power of the pope is higher than that of the monarch. The church stipulates that the surgeon should not remove the patient's hair, nor harm the patient's **, let alone cut the patient's blood vessels.

Red represents arterial blood, blue represents venous blood, and white represents gauze, and these three colors represent the signs of substances commonly used in the practice of medicine.

The king was caught in a dilemma, so he developed a new profession, and before he could operate on a surgeon, there was a full-time side job to remove the patient's hair and then open the patient's blood vessels. Thus the Federation of Barbers and Surgeons was formed, and for this purpose a solemn ceremony was established under the auspices of the Pope. From then on, the red, white and blue columns became a symbol of employment until the 18th century, when a king ordered all surgeons to form a formal medical society, in which doctors and barbers went their separate ways, but the tricolor revolving lamp in front of the barbershop has been preserved and is still in use today.

The rest of the world thought that the barber shop in front of the British house, this kind of revolving light was really beautiful and the screen could attract customers, so they followed suit, and the revolving light, which has been used for centuries, has officially become the symbol of the barbershop's door.

Claim 1: During the French Revolution, there was a barbershop that was a base of activity for revolutionaries. Once, under the cover of a barber, a leading leader of a revolutionary party was able to escape in pursuit.

After the victory of the revolution, in recognition of their achievements, they were allowed to use the red, white and blue national flags as symbols, which gradually evolved into the later turn-down lights, which were imitated by various countries and became international barbershop symbols.

Myth 2: In the Middle Ages, there was a popular saying in Western Europe that people were sick mainly because of the imbalance of the elements in the body, and as long as the excess "elements" were introduced, they would be restored.

Blood is considered to be the easiest "element" to be introduced, so Europeans believe that "bloodletting is the beginning of the first place". But the doctor thought it was an inferior person's doing, and refused to let the blood go by himself, and asked the barber to do it, so the barber became an amateur surgeon. In 1540, with the approval of the King of England, the Union of Barbers and Surgeons was established, for which a solemn ceremony was held, and the King personally handed over the instrument of approval to the President of the Federation, Vickery.

From then on, the barbers officially played the brand of surgeons and chose the tricolor pillar as their symbol of medicine and haircuts. The red in the tricolor column represents the artery, the blue represents the vein, and the white represents the gauze. In 1745, King George II established the Royal Society of Surgeons, and the surgeon was separated from the barber, but the tricolor column in front of the barber shop has been used.

Barbershops around the world thought it was beautiful and eye-catching, and they followed suit. Barbershops in our country also follow this decoration as the only sign of the barbershop. Due to the need to attract customers, the columns at the entrance of barbershops are not necessarily red, blue and white.

Because inFrench Revolutionperiod, a major leader of the revolution escaped capture because he was covered by a barber. In recognition of the merits of the barbers, the Chartered Barbers are:Red, white and blueThe tricolor flag was hung as a symbol, and this symbol gradually evolved into the current turning flowerDownlightIt was later copied by barbers in other countries and became an international barbershop icon. The three-color turning light is the barbershop logo.

The rotating lamp is called the hairdressing turning lamp, and it is also called the flower column, the rotating flower downlight, the rotating light box and so on.

Features of the three-color rotating light:In fact, this has something to do with the history of barbers. The official name of this "tricolor column" that rotates in all hair salons is "flower column".

The earliest was on the European side. This three-color revolving light function, that is, its sparkling appearance, can also attract the attention of passers-by walking in front of the barbershop, so as to attract more customers to come into the shop to get a haircut, solicit business, and to some extent, also like a beckoning cat.

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In the past, the pillars used to shave the head with tape have become the symbol of haircuts!

The turning light in front of the barbershop is an international barbershop logo.

The turning light in front of the barbershop is from the time of the French Revolution, when a major leader of a revolutionary party was able to escape from danger during a chase under the cover of a barber. After the victory of the revolution, in recognition of its merits, the red, white and blue national flags were used as symbols, which gradually evolved into the later rotary downlights, which were imitated by various countries.

When people think of red, white and blue, they immediately think of the French flag. However, this symbol does not symbolize the ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity like the tricolor, but red represents arteries, blue represents veins, and white represents bandages. It is said that this internationally accepted symbol was designed by the Frenchman Mayanaker in 1540.

Composed of blue, red and white tricolor bands, there were no professional doctors in the European Middle Ages, and the general diseases consisted of bloodletting, and the barber acted as a phlebotomy, red for arteries, blue for veins, and white for bandages. For signage, it is equivalent to hanging a wine flag at the door of the hotel. It has been handed down to later generations, but the content is different.

The rotating light in front of the barber shop is called a "rotating light box".

The "rotating light box" originated from some barber shops in Europe that doubled as bloodletting for pneumonia patients, and only such barber shops would set up a red, white and blue sign at the door, and then gradually transformed into a "rotating light box".

In medieval Europe, barbershops offered bloodletting**. It was necessary to bandage after bloodletting, at that time the bandages were reused, and it was customary for barbers to hang the washed bandages on the posts at the doorway to dry. Gradually, the bloody bandage floating at the door became the sign of the barbershop, which is the prototype of the red, white and blue colored columns seen today.