Traditional hardware products, also known as “hardware”. Refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin five metals. By manual processing can be made into knives, swords and other art or metal devices. The hardware of modern society is more extensive, such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily hardware, building hardware and security supplies.
1. Five metals. Later called gold, silver, copper, iron, tin for hardware, also refers to a variety of metals.
Han Zhao Ye “Wu Yue Spring and Autumn · Lu Nei biography” : “Minister heard Yue King Yuan Chang made Ou Ye Zi make five swords… A Zhan Lu, the Yin of hardware, the essence of the sun.”
Five generations of Qi Ji “Thank people Hui medicine” poem: “Hardware Yuan, nine chain more refined new.” According to “Hanshu · Food Zhi” “Gold, knife, turtle, Bei” Yan Shigu notes: “gold is the gold of the five colors. Those who are yellow say gold, those who are white say silver, those who are red say copper, those who are green say lead and those who are black say iron.”
Sun Yat-sen “Declaration of the Xingzhong Association” : “Today, strong neighboring ring, strong and strong, long coveted our Chinese hardware wealth, the number of products.”
2. It is also used today as a general term for metal products. For example: hardware store.
3. See “Five Zhu”. Name of an ancient coin. A kind of elm money.
Jin Yuan good ask “continued Yi Jian Zhi · ancient money” : “Yuzhu, its text one said ‘hardware’, one said ‘five Zhu’, almost points’ Baht ‘word for two also.”
The Modern Chinese Dictionary
Hardware: refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, generally refers to metal.
Folding “Sea of words”
Hardware: refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, today commonly used for metal or copper and iron products collectively.
Hardware: Five metals. “Wu Yue Spring and Autumn” four “Lu inner biography” : “Minister wen Yue king Yuan Chang made Ou Ye Zi sword five,… A Zhan Lu, the gold of hardware, the essence of the sun.” According to the “Hanshu · Food annals” on the “gold, knife, turtle, Bei” note: “gold is the five colors of gold, yellow said gold, white said silver, red said copper, green said lead, black said iron.” Later called gold, silver, copper, iron, tin for hardware.
What is hardware
Hardware refers to five metals. The term hardware first appeared in the “Wu Yue Spring and Autumn” four “Lu Neizhuan” : “Minister heard the king of Yue often made Ou Ye Zi make five swords… A Zhan Lu, the gold of hardware, the essence of the sun.” According to the “Hanshu · Food annals” on the “gold, knife, turtle, Bey” note: “gold, called the five colors of gold, yellow said gold, white said silver, red said copper, green said lead, black said iron.” “Modern Chinese Dictionary” explains: hardware, refers to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, generally refers to metal. Today’s hardware is commonly used as a general term for metal or copper and iron products.
The further application of metals has played an important role in the development of the history of human civilization. Metal products appear in every corner of economic life, political life and military activities. For example, Yongkang, Zhejiang, has been known as the “town of 100 workers” since ancient times, and the hardware handicraft industry has a long history. Since the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yongkang coppersmiths and blacksmiths have traveled south and north and gone abroad to make a living, and there has been a saying in history that “hardware craftsmen go to the four corners, prefectural counties and counties.”
History into the modern industrial society, metal – hardware products industry is developing rapidly, hardware industry in the development of the national economy has played an immeasurable role, hardware products have become an indispensable industrial link in industrial manufacturing.
Traditional hardware products, also known as “hardware”. Refers to iron, steel, aluminum and other metals through forging, calendering, cutting, and other physical processing and manufacturing of various metal devices. Such as hardware tools, hardware parts, daily hardware, building hardware and security supplies. Most hardware products are not final consumer goods. But as a supporting product of industrial manufacturing, semi-finished products and tools used in the production process and so on. Only a small part of daily hardware products are necessary tools for people’s lives.
In the National economic industry classification of the National Bureau of Statistics, manufacturing is the third largest industry. These include: the production of means of living, such as: agricultural and sideline products, food and beverage, tobacco, textile and clothing leather, wood furniture, printing and recreational goods and pharmaceutical manufacturing; Manufacturing of means of production, such as: petrochemical, chemical fiber, rubber plastics, non-metallic products manufacturing, metal smelting and processing, metal products manufacturing, general equipment manufacturing, industry special equipment manufacturing, as well as transportation equipment manufacturing, electrical equipment, communication electronics and so on.
The related products in the classification of metal products in the manufacturing industry and general parts in the manufacturing of general equipment constitute the “hardware” in the usual sense. It can be seen that “hardware” is not an existing industry category, but a cross combination of the above several metal products  hardware products. In the entire manufacturing industry, the responsibility of “hardware” is to provide parts and production tools for manufacturing enterprises, rather than as industry-specific equipment for final use. In spite of this, we cannot deny the important role of “hardware” in the social production process: “hardware” and manufacturing are intertwined with each other as an inseparable whole.