How did the ancestors choose token of love?

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It's another year's Tanabata, and it's also a victory day for businesses.

But do you know that ancient people have long played with gift bags, perfumes, diamond rings, bracelets and underwear?

Why are you punching? The double gold ring on Wan's arm. (armhole)

Why be diligent? About a pair of silver. (ring)

Why is it just a small area? Two pearls on the ear. (Earrings)

Why are you knocking? The sachet is tied behind the elbow. (small bag)

Why is the contract broad? Double jump around the wrist. (bracelet)

Why are you grateful? Meiyu adorns Luo Ying. (Yu Pei)

Why is the knot center? Double needle plain silk. (concentric knot)

Why did you get married? Scratch your head with a thin gold painting. (hairpin)

Why comfort parting? Tortoise shell behind the ear. (hairpin)

Why answer Huan Xin? Su Wan has three skirts. (dress)

Why are you sad? White silk double layer medium coat. (underwear)

It seems that our ancestors' vows are no worse than today, and they are also very open to romance. Compared with today's people, the ancestors may pay more attention to their own thoughts everywhere, which is better than a thousand words. Divide a phoenix hairpin, send a sachet, send a handkerchief and pick a red bean? It can be a loving thing.

Hey? Wife's souvenir.

Hairpin seems to be a very old term. In your imagination, you can roll up your long hair loosely, insert a unique hairpin, and interpret the word "classical", even without matching ancient costumes.

Zan, also known as scratching the head, is a common token of love for ancient women. According to legend, Li Furen, the favorite of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, charmed Emperor Wu with the charm of scratching his head with a hairpin, and the imperial secretary competed to scratch his head with a hairpin, so the name of scratching his head was handed down.

Hairpins, shaped like giant needles, have colorful ends and sharp and hard ends. It can convey love and hurt. 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 to show her determination not to be a mistress again. Therefore, the hairpin also symbolizes the dignity of the "main room" and is also a necessary gift for ancient men to give their wives.

The appearance of hairpin was later than that of hairpin, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and was popular in the late Han Dynasty. Ladies in the Han Dynasty like to comb a high bun, and a single hairpin is not suitable for fixing and supporting a huge bun. Hairpins are longer than hairpins, and the hair ends are double-stranded, which can hold thick hair and have strong styling power for hair styles.

Because the hairpin can be removed, its "promise" meaning is more obvious. In ancient times, there was a custom of saying goodbye between lovers or husband and wife: a woman divided the hairpin on her head into two parts, one for each other and the other for herself, and used it another day.

How much weight does a hairpin have as a thing of love? Maybe you can see the clue from the jewelry boxes of the ancients. In the history of China literature, there is another epigraph for Feng Chai.

During the political period of the Northern Song Dynasty, a popular song was sung in Kyoto, the capital of the Song Dynasty? Pick up sweet words. People don't know who wrote this sad song, only know that it comes from the palace, and the epigraph is taken from the Xie Fang Garden of the palace. The song sings: "Like a dream, there is no * * *. Poor and lonely as a hairpin. The mountains are separated, and the night is rinspeed. Yaner has come, and there is no news. " A woman who misses a distant lover sighs and feels lonely like a hairpin.

This sad and touching song is widely circulated in Sichuan. A few years later, Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, entered Shu, and this tune touched the heartstrings, which led to the appearance of the eternal swan song "Hairpin Phoenix".

Sachet? A symbol of sweetness and pleasure.

Presumably this thing is familiar to everyone. The little maid-in-waiting deliberately threw the sachet on the ground to attract the attention of the emperor, and the superior succeeded. It's all from Gongdou Opera.

The custom of putting spices in bags and wearing them can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. When young people meet their parents and elders, they should wear woven sachets to show their respect. The sachet is usually tied to a belt under the waist or elbow, and some are tied to a bed curtain or a chariot. Because most of the exotic spices came from foreign tributes, the court also took sachets as a gift.

In a Dream of Red Mansions, Sister Lin also made a sachet for Brother Bao, and every stitch and thread condensed her feelings. Once I wrote that Daiyu misunderstood that Baoyu had given the sachet to someone else. In a rage, I cut the other one I was making, but Baoyu wore it. How can she give it away? Youth is gone, and the red rain is gone. I still see Iraqis when I see the fragrant bag, but I'm afraid Baoyu can't bear to see it again.

The so-called love at first sight may be just because the "smell" is the same. The faint smell of body fragrance at the tip of the nose always reminds people of the cleanness and moisture of hair and produces inexplicable pleasure.

Xin Qiji's Jade Case? 9? In "Yuan", there are two sentences describing dressing up beautiful women: "BMW carves cars and smells fragrant everywhere" and "there is a faint fragrance between talking and laughing". Where ancient women passed by, there was often a faint fragrance floating in the wind, and the source of the fragrance was mostly sachets.

I think the function of sachet is the same as that of perfume today. "I only wear chanel no.5 perfume when I sleep." This is the sexiest woman in the 20th century. Marilyn? 9? A famous saying of Monroe.

Handkerchiefs? The most expressive symbol

Handkerchiefs belonged to all women in ancient times, and also belonged to relatively private items. In ancient times, women paid attention to needlework, so most of the patterns on handkerchiefs were embroidered by women themselves, and they were given to their beloved men to express their yearning for him and, of course, to imply their love for him.

A woman faced her sweetheart, blushed, and her hands were at a loss, so she sent her handkerchief to her hand. A little helpless, a little shy, a little happy, which makes people feel pity.

In the 34th episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu committed suicide by throwing himself into a well because of having an affair with an official, and was beaten by his father. When Lin Daiyu came to visit, she was greatly moved by the "peach with swollen eyes". Later Baoyu woke up and asked Qingwen to give him two old silk scarves. Qingwen said, "This is strange again. Does she want these two silk handkerchiefs? She will be annoyed again. " Baoyu smiled and said, "Don't worry, she naturally knows." After Daiyu took it, she was "considerate of the handkerchief and was fascinated."

Before she died, Daiyu asked Zijuan for the old handkerchiefs of the two Baoyus who wrote her own poems. Burning handkerchiefs and poems, she will angrily destroy the tokens and certificates of love and talent, and the two most important traces of her youth and life.

I didn't borrow it for a living, nor did I write novels for talented people and beautiful women. Everyone is happy, everyone is happy. However, these two old handkerchiefs are regarded as the heaviest and most reliable "tokens of love" in the history of China handkerchiefs.

Red beans? The most poetic symbol

Red beans, also known as "Acacia", "Yuanyang Bean" and "Langjun Bean", have been used to send lovesickness since ancient times. Men and women who love each other send red beans to have sex with each other to relieve the suffering of lovesickness. Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, used things to express his feelings, making red beans synonymous with "acacia".

Botanically speaking, the red bean tree is a tall tree and the acacia is a vine, which is different. But in the literati's pen, the two are often mixed together. It is also said that the red bean tree was not widely known until the Song Dynasty, so the red bean in Tang poetry actually refers to acacia.

Li Shizhen told a story in Compendium of Materia Medica: According to legend, in ancient times, a man went to war, and his wife leaned against a tree on the mountain and prayed day and night. I cry under the tree because I miss my lover. After the tears dried up, bright red blood drops flowed out, and the blood drops became red beans, which took root and sprouted, and grew into a big tree full of red beans, which people called acacia beans. Day after day, spring came to Qiu Lai, and the fruit of the big tree gradually became the most beautiful red heart-shaped seed on the earth with the girl's thoughts? Acacia bean

In China, red beans are also considered as spiritual goods. When men and women are engaged, sending a string of red beans that have been promised will make love smooth; When getting married, the bride wears a bracelet or necklace with red beans to symbolize that both men and women are soul mates and grow old together; After marriage, the couple put six red beans under the pillow, which is considered to ensure the unity and happiness of the couple for a hundred years.

It is said that there are "five iron rules" in love vows.

1, with enough connotation and implication, can express acacia.

2. I can see it every day, I can use it, and both sides care.

3, can keep up with the development of the times

4, the value should not be too high.

5. Excellent quality and excellent products.

I have to say that it is really reasonable that ancient coins can be passed down through the ages, because they all conform to the "five iron rules."

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The lady lost her famous calligraphy and painting, and the police helped find it all night.

On August 29th, the police detachment of Huaihua Railway received a pennant presented by a lady. The police officers of the detachment were very responsible and helped to retrieve the famous calligraphy and painting worth 654.38+10,000 yuan in time. Thank you very much.

It turns out that Ms. Zhang, who is 4 1 year old, is from Huaihua. On August 26th, she took the k267 train from Beijing West to Huaihua, and arrived in Huaihua on August 27th. When she got home, she found that she had left a brown shopping bag in the sleeping car, which contained three works of famous calligraphers auctioned from Beijing, with a total value of more than 6,543,800 yuan. Ms. Zhang hurried to the Huaihua Railway Police Detachment for help. At that time, the train was empty and there was nothing in the carriage. By visiting and watching the train surveillance video, the police finally determined that a man of about 30 years old took Ms. Zhang's shopping bag. After careful investigation, the man is the king of Xupu, Hunan.

After the target was determined, the Huaihua Railway Police Detachment used the obtained information to get in touch with the man immediately. The other party admitted that he had taken other people's property by mistake and expressed his willingness to return it to the owner. The police drove to Xupu overnight and found the residence of Wang Xing's man. After verifying the situation, they found the shopping bag. In the early morning of August 28, the police returned the shopping bag to the lost lady. After inspection, when Ms. Zhang saw that the items in the shopping bag were intact, she was so excited that tears filled her eyes. She held the policeman's hand and said, "Thank you for your kind help and saved my loss in time."

Selling fake antiques to the police, four swindlers walked into a trap.

A group of fake antique swindlers of collectors' association sold fake antiques to plainclothes policemen, but they were trapped. On June 5438+05, after more than 20 days of hard operation and tracking, Xinmi City Public Security Bureau of Henan Province recently successfully destroyed a fake antique fraud gang, arrested four members, and seized more than 80 pieces of fake jade and antiques 100, saving economic losses for the victims100.

On July 17, Mr. Wang in xinmi city was walking in the street and met a man wearing a yellow construction helmet, claiming that he had dug up treasures during the construction of Phoenix Mountain, including jade Guanyin, jade bracelets, jade bowls and ivory sculptures. , unfolded the bag he carried with him.

It happens that Mr. Wang is a collector and often watches treasure-hunting programs on TV. After listening to the "helmet" man's words, I saw that the things in the other bag were rusty and really looked like unearthed things. So, after bargaining, I spent more than 3000 yuan to buy all the items in the "helmet" bag.

After paying the money and goods, the "helmet" man told Mr. Wang that he had two other guys and brought a treasure. If he doesn't sell it, the boss will say he has it for himself. Otherwise, people won't sell it. Why should I sell it? In a word, the sky is foggy, and Mr. Wang is not sure whether it is true or not. He hesitated to buy two more "safety helmets", carrying two bags of the same thing, and spent more than 1000 yuan.

After returning home, Mr. Wang turned on the computer for comparison. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that it didn't look like a real cultural relic. Instead, I felt cheated and reported the case to the public security bureau.

After receiving the report, the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Xinmi Public Security Bureau arranged for investigators Ma, Liu Yahai and Chen Jinxing to investigate. The investigators first went to the synthetic operations command center to check the surveillance video of the crime scene, and found that the perpetrators were carrying cloth bags and wearing helmets, and then found out the possible location of the suspects.

After more than 20 days of continuous tracking, on August 8, three investigators were groping for clues on the west street section, and two men wearing yellow construction helmets came face to face. Before the investigator spoke, he took out his "antiques" and sold them. While dealing with each other, the investigators informed other investigators to come to reinforce. After stabilizing the suspect, they combined with the police who arrived later to control the two. After a surprise trial, the investigators arrested two other accomplices on the bus from Xinmi to Zhengzhou, and seized more than 80 pieces of fake jade and antiques from the four people on the spot.

According to police officer Ma, it was Pan Heshi who sold antiques to the investigators, and the two people caught in the car were Wang Moufeng and Wang Mouzhen, both in their forties. The antiques they sold were handicrafts bought from stalls in Yuzhou City, and each piece ranged from 1 to 20 yuan. These objects are covered with dust on the stalls, and some of them are rusty, so it's hard to say for a moment. They can really be regarded as unearthed cultural relics.

It is understood that four people have been criminally detained by the police according to law and the case is under further investigation.