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Hairpin who brought the fire

The hairpin culture was brought to the fore by actress Zhao Liying.

She made this non-heritage culture receive widespread attention by showing photos of hairpins around the traditional costumes of women in Quanzhou, Fujian Province (泉州蟳埔). This trend has not only affected the field of tourism, causing a wave of tourism fever to come to Fujian Cao Pu, but also penetrated into all corners of the society, even affecting the field of online games. As a custom of Quanzhou Hairy Po women, hairpin wreath was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008, and the promotion of Zhao Liying has made this cultural form more widely inherited and carried forward especially from Song Zhenzong, the emperor often gave flowers to ministers as a sign of favor, according to the record of Dream Sorghum Records by Zhou Mi Wu Zimu of the Southern Song Dynasty, at the birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager of Song Zhenzong, Song Zhenzong "gave Zaizhen hundred officials and guards of the temple service actors and other flowers, each according to taste hairpin flowers, on easy yellow robes and hats, driving out and then sit, also hairpin several small silk flowers on the cap.