Moral of the locket pendant

The birth of a new life, the happiest and most happy is undoubtedly the new parents. However, a delicate baby to raise adults, is an extremely difficult thing. For this reason, many parents will give the child to wear a long life lock, praying for the child to grow up safely. A long life lock is an ornament hung around a child's neck and became popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to folk customs, children wear long life locks, can avoid disasters and drive away evil spirits, "lock" life, safe growth.

The long life locks are usually made of silver, and some are made of gold or carved with jade. Jade long life locks are made of jade to create an auspicious ornament, now mostly for the elders to the younger generation, expressing people's wishes for young children to grow up safe and sound, good luck and happiness. Lock in yang green jadeite was carved into the shape of ruyi, jade is warm and delicate, Jade is full of meaning, the shape of the regular, implying that everything is as good as it can be, the meaning of good luck expressed clearly, children wear, can bless its disaster-free, safe and sound growing up.

The symbol of the lock necklace is to lock the happiness and love, which is depending on the object of gift, in addition, parents will give the child to wear a lock necklace, this is related to the health, usually called the long life lock is also one of them, usually silver.

If a boy sends a key lock pendant to a girl, it expresses his love for the girl, want to open the girl's heart, or live in the girl's heart, and then lock each other for life. And locks usually have a key, meaning open, lock pendant is to open the door of wealth and the door of wisdom, so a separate key lock pendant means to open wisdom and wealth.

There are two types of lock necklaces, one is the traditional Chinese parents give their children silver lock necklace, also known as the long life lock, the long life lock of the predecessor of the "long life strand", so it is also called "long life strand". Also called "long life wisp", "renew life wisp", "prolong life wisp", "five color wisp", "Pai Bing Zeng", "Zhu Suo", "Bai Suo" and other names.

Long-life locks, a Chinese tradition, mostly metal or gold and silver made of ornaments, in the form of ancient locks, especially popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. According to tradition, as long as the hanging of this ornament, can help children get rid of disasters and evil, "lock" life, so many children from the birth of a short period of time to hang this kind of jewelry, but also in the newborn full hundred days or weeks of age of the ceremony to hang the long life locks, and has been hanging to adulthood.

In the war years in the children's chest locks, the significance of which is to lock the child's life, to avoid the invasion of disease and epidemic ghosts endangering children. It is believed that once the child put on the lock, it will be able to grow up in peace without any disaster. Therefore, people call this lock long life lock.

Another view in recent years more popular `couple lock necklaces, usually consists of a lock-shaped necklace and another key-shaped necklace. It is well known that keys can open locks and locks can be opened by keys. A key and a lock, indicating that both parties are loyal and dedicated to each other.

The symbol of the key is to open each other's heart, to transmit their love to each other, to give each other warmth; and the symbol of the lock is to be loyal to each other, to be devoted to each other. Generally girls wear keys and boys wear locks. Key necklaces are relatively smaller, girls wear key necklaces are very good-looking; and lock necklaces are actually quite small, boys wear lock necklaces are also very appropriate.

The symbolism of the gold lock

The gold lock symbolizes peace and prosperity, with good luck, longevity, to avoid trouble and drive away the evil spirits and other symbols, sent the elders of the younger generation of the wonderful blessings, the younger children to wear the gold lock, can bring good luck.

In our country, many people also baby wear gold locks called long life locks, long life locks symbolizes the lock of the child's life, blessing the child can be away from evil diseases, no harm, no harm, health and longevity, people have always believed that the long life locks have to exorcise evil spirits, praying for longevity, symbolizing amulets, symbolizing health and safety.

But according to tradition, gold locks lock wealth and silver locks peace, so more people use silver locks as long life locks, gold locks are more symbolic of wealth and prosperity. But with the development of the times, gold locks are now often used as long-life locks.

Wearing gold locks

There are also a lot of things to be said about wearing gold locks for children, such as gold locks can not be bought by the biological parents, but only by grandparents, grandparents or uncles and aunts and other people to buy. And the baby was just born is not suitable to wear gold locks, need to wear silver locks, and so the child a hundred days or weeks after the age of gold locks. Some parents will also give the child first count the five elements, if the five elements of the lack of gold, then it is suitable to wear gold locks, if the five elements of more gold, then it is not suitable to wear gold locks.

Wear gold locks notes

Newborn babies are generally not recommended to wear jewelry, because jewelry is easy to hide dirt, baby skin delicate, easy to be affected. Secondly, young babies are more curious, usually a little inattentive may swallow the gold locks or by the gold locks of the chain lock throat, this situation must be avoided. Wear gold locks, but also pay attention to hide, so as to avoid some lawless elements on the baby's gold locks to produce non-thinking.

If you must wear a gold lock, choose a gold lock when it is recommended to try to choose a lighter, do not strangle the baby's neck. In addition, try to choose a good quality, because the quality of the gold locks do not pass may contain some harmful substances, long-term wear easy to produce a bad effect on the baby.