What does it mean for boys to send girls hairpins?

A boy gives a girl a hairpin, which shows that he likes this girl very much and wants to marry her.

In ancient times, hair clips were also used as tokens of love. There is a saying that before she died, Yang Yuhuan Mawei broke the hair clasp in half, half for herself and the other half for Tang Xuanzong. This is a symbol of love. The ancient hairpin is a symbol of a woman's adulthood and is called a gift. It is also a symbol of men's love for women. Generally, when a man gives a woman a hairpin, he must love each other very much. Sending a hairpin means that he wants to marry her.

In addition, in the ancient wedding ceremony, on the wedding night, two new people each cut off a lock of their own hair, and then twisted the two locks together as a token of their eternal knot, so it was called knot hair. For example, Chen Menglei's poem "Green Grass" in the Qing Dynasty: "Knots and gentlemen know each other, and they must die." Sending hairpins also implies that men are faithful to love, as long as women are determined to be original.

Hairpin style:

The styles of hairpins are very rich, and the main changes are mostly concentrated in the head of hairpins. It has a variety of shapes, and also likes to use flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds and animals as the first shape of the hairpin. Common flower varieties include plum blossom, lotus flower, chrysanthemum flower, peach blossom, peony flower and hibiscus flower. There are such names as "Golden Peach Blossom Top Hairpin" and "Golden Plum Blossom Top Product" in Tianshui Iceberg Record in Ming Dynasty. Hairpins based on animals are common in dragons and phoenixes, unicorns, finches, swimming fish and so on. Among them, Fengchai has the most and the most exquisite production.

In the folk, generally speaking, the rich use jade and silver, and the poor use bones. Silver hair clips are also essential for ordinary people to marry their daughters. Women cherish it very much, because it is a more valuable thing to accompany them, some of which will never be lost or damaged. Most of the hairpins widely used by the people are bone, so people are always used to calling them "bone hairpins".