Secret: What souvenirs did ancient lovers give each other?

Introduction: Since ancient times, there has been a custom of exchanging token of love between lovers in China. In many poems and songs, there are descriptions of lovers giving each other token of love. China people pay attention to "feelings" rather than "things". A Yu Pei, a sachet, a bunch of hair, and even a melon and fruit can all be used as tokens of love, and they can all express their demands for "love". But different tokens have different meanings. Let's see what the ancients gave when they were in love.

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Zheng qi fan er hairpin

Zan, also known as scratching the head, is a common token of love for ancient women. It also symbolizes the dignity of the "main room". Random thoughts on singing describes a woman who carefully made a hair clasp for a distant lover. After hearing that her lover had another love, she burned the hair clasp and "exploded" it to express her determination not to be a mistress. This is also a necessary gift for ancient men to give their wives.

Qing Xiang-Ren Xiang nang

The sachet, also known as sachet and flower sachet, is wrapped with silk thread and a variety of fragrant Chinese herbal medicines are put into the bag. In the pre-Qin period, young people wore woven sachets to show their respect when they met their parents and elders. Because sachets are personal belongings, lovers often give them to each other as gifts.

Gentleman's Love Yu Pei

"The beauty of jade is like the virtue of a gentleman." In ancient China, jade was a symbol of a gentleman. A gentleman pays attention to respecting peace and harmony, and warm and distant love conforms to the meaning of jade. Therefore, the elegant and calm modest gentlemen in ancient times all like to use jade as a token of their love. They are temperate and polite, neither impatient nor alienated.

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Pure pepper

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a kind of spice crop, because it has many seeds, which means "many children" after marriage. Therefore, in the Spring and Autumn Period, men and women took pepper as a custom. In The Book of Songs Martin East Gate, it tells the story of a man who received a bunch of Zanthoxylum bungeanum as a token from a girl at the dance. When we made a promise, we agreed to have many children in the future. The ancients were actually very straightforward in love.

Half and half things are necessary for dog blood.

In costume TV series, Yu Pei and other objects are often broken in half, and each person holds a piece for sex. This is also a common way of making love in ancient times. Also, open the rouge box, give the lid to your lover, fold the mirror in half, or split the hairpin in two. In ancient times, the traffic was inconvenient, and it took many years to go to Beijing to catch the exam or travel far. Things changed when I came back, so this kind of engagement is often evidence of finding a child to recognize relatives.

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A tangled knot

The knot of empathy has always been a token of ancient people's expression of emotion. The so-called "love is the same as Sauvignon Blanc, and love is the same." Meng Jiao, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Making Love": "The heart is renewed, and the feelings are deeper. Once I wanted to leave, I tied a thousand knots. I will stick to my ambition alone, and I will return to my will early. You don't know how to tie clothes until you know it. Sit down and finish it, and finish it for a hundred years. " It describes a woman's sentimental psychological activity when knitting for her lover who is about to travel.

Tanabata is here. As a single king, looking at the couples in the street, I can't help feeling a lot. Especially when I was writing the love story of the ancients, I had mixed feelings. But in any case, if you move these ancient tokens back to reality, you may receive unexpected surprises.