Iron forging skills are a traditional skills project in the fifth batch of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at the municipal level in Lianyungang. The iron forging process in Lianyungang is simple and mostly passed down orally. The place where iron is forged is also called the "blacksmith's furnace". To make an iron tool in the "blacksmith's furnace", the first step is to select the materials. You need to look at the "order" and "dish", and choose the materials according to the "following the gourd" to make something; then, heat it up; first put the steel or iron parts into the furnace to make them red, take them out and forge them flat and thin, and then "draw the sample"; draw the sample on the iron plate, cut out the sample with a chisel, and the next process is "hammering"; when the ironware is red, the master will move it to the big iron pier, use a small hammer to beat it, and the apprentice will follow with a heavy hammer. The hammering should be even, especially for the knife, the blade should be flat and thin. Sometimes, the sample needs to be hammered and then modified into shape, and then the whole product needs to be smoothed by a grinding wheel or punch. The last step is cold treatment. Use a fire box to heat the coke or charcoal in the furnace red, insert the turned product into the fire, and when the product is red to a certain degree, use pliers to clamp the product, put the blade into water, and observe quickly. If the blade is too white, it means it is too hard and easy to crack when used. If it is too blue, it is too soft and easy to curl. The tools used for iron forging include iron forging furnace, large and small hammers, iron felt, bellows, as well as main materials such as coke and pig iron. The general forging products now include octagonal hammers, steel chisels, screen bars, sickles, kitchen knives, force bars, nails, agricultural tools, nine-pronged forks, etc. The inheritance of iron forging skills is both family inheritance and master-apprentice inheritance. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)