The fame of acacia red beans spread far and wide, thanks to the four-character quatrain "Acacia" written by Wang Wei, a great poet in Tang Dynasty. "When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches. Take them home for my sake as a symbol of our love." This famous saying was written by Wang Wei to his good friend Li Guinian. Due to the Anshi Rebellion, Li Guinian was exiled to Jiangnan. Wang Wei gave this poem to him, expressing his deep affection for his friends. Later, people used the characteristics of red beans as bright as blood and as hard as diamonds to interpret their unswerving love. As a result, red beans became the symbol of love and the carrier of acacia. Love of "red beans stained with blue cream, often acacia"; "Red beans in linglong dice, I don't know if I want to"; The heaviness of "red beans are ugly and full of acacia tears"; Red beans are ok, but acacia is flawless. Red beans, containing the innocence and profundity of love, carry people's distant memories.
comb
Counting the common token of love, the most romantic one is the wooden comb. In addition to bringing scalp health care and making hair healthy and beautiful, combs represent acacia and miss each other very much. Comb also has the meaning of opening the knot and letting the troubles pass; To send a comb is to have a private life and want to grow old with her (him). Comb your hair with a comb sent by your lover every day, which represents the close relationship between the two sides. "The body is a skin injury, and parents dare not hurt it. Filial piety begins. " The ancients attached great importance to hair, which made wooden combs an important personal item. With the legend of Tanabata, the wooden comb has gradually become a token of love that must be given away, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.
Jade pendant
The ancients loved jade, and the old saying goes, "A gentleman never leaves his hand without a reason." The explanation in "Notes on Ancient Poetry" says: "Decorate tassels with jade to show gratitude." "Ying Luo" is a colorful ribbon tied around the waist when an ancient woman got married to show her belonging. Make "knot" synonymous with ancient marriage. According to the Book of Songs, when a daughter gets married, the mother tells her daughter to speak in a low voice, but at the same time she can't bear to tie a knot with her. It is the most commonly used token of the ancients.
satchel
Sachet has a long history. In ancient times, it was also called sachet, fragrant tassel, sachet, fragrant ball, Pei Wei and purse. The history of ancient people wearing sachets can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. According to the Book of Rites. Internal rules ":"Children are parents and use them around; ..... to suit my parents and aunt. " In other words, when young people meet their parents and elders, they should wear "tassels", that is, woven sachets, to show their respect. Because sachets are personal items, lovers often give them to each other as gifts to express their love.
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. "Let the soil smell the same as before, but for whom? Scattered into mud and crushed into dust, only the fragrance remains. "
bracelet
There are many names for bracelets in ancient times, and "jump" is one of them. There is a story in Song Jiyong's Chronicle of Tang Poetry. One day, Tang Wenzong asked his ministers, "There is a saying in an ancient poem,' A light shirt with a jump'. Do any of you know what "jump" is? " No one can answer. The literati school told them: "Breaking free is today's wrist." In ancient literary works, it is very common for women to send bracelets to their lovers. In Empresses in the Palace, Liang Taohongjing described the escaped fairy sepals, green flowers, sheep rights in Zeng Zeng, gold and jade. In Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. Bai Yuyu wrote about the scholar Wu Shengou going to fairyland to have fun with a fairy in purple. When she left, the fairy gave Wu Sheng her gold brooch as a souvenir.
A true lover's knot
It is said in The Source of Poetry that Zhou Wen fell in love with his neighbor's wife, Jiang, and gave Jiang a crystal needle as a token, so Jiang began to wear shoes.
Box, take the connecting wire, thread the double needle, knit the concentric knot and return the paper. Plain wisps represent purity, while needles are homophonic with chastity.
Weave the ribbon into a string of palindrome-like concentric knots for each other, which also contains endless thoughts and thousands of feelings. In the poems of Liang Wudi and Xiao Yan, there is "double belt around the waist, and dreams are concentric knots". In the Song Dynasty, Lin Bu wrote the poem "You are full of tears, my concubine is full of tears, my heart is not finished, and the river is flat".
ring
In ancient times, unmarried women didn't wear rings, because the ring was a token of engagement or betrothal, so this smallest token was the heaviest in women's hearts, and it is the same today. Reach out and let the opposite person put it on yourself. Then, either wear it happily for a lifetime or cry for it until your heart breaks sooner or later.
According to Taiping Guangji, scholar Li Zhangwu fell in love with Wang's son-in-law in Huazhou. When leaving, Wang's son-in-law gave Li Zhangwu a white jade ring and a poem: "Twist the ring and miss each other." May you play forever and endlessly. Later, Li Zhangwu went to Huazhou again, and Wang's son-in-law was anxious, so they met at Wang's house.
hairpin
Hairpin, a long needle used by the ancients to fix the bun or connect the crown hair, later specifically refers to the jewelry for women to insert the bun. "Biography of Historical Records and Funny Stories" said: "There was a fall before, and then there was a hairpin". And "I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin, and it can no longer hold hairpins.
The ethnic minorities in China have the traditional custom of fixing their hair with hairpins. Their hairpins are various, with a long history, rich national characteristics and rich cultural connotations.
hairpin
Hairpins are flowers or other styling hairpins made of pearls, jade, gold and silver. Two or more long hairpins are used to connect and fix the bun, which is inserted into the temples when in use.
Hairpin is not only an ornament, but also a symbol of love. In ancient times, there was a custom of saying goodbye between lovers: women divided their hair clips into two parts, half for each other and the other half for themselves until they met again another day. In Xin Qiji's "Late Spring in Zhu Yingtai", the words "Baochai Powder, Taoyedu, Ada Dark Nanpu" express this parting. In Nalan Xingde's words, "Baochai is obsessed with it, why should she be wet?" is also full of the pain of separation from her love.
skirt
"Why do you want to answer huan xin? Su Wan has three skirts. "
In ancient times, silk was called Su-Wan, and "Su-Wan Three Skirts" refers to skirts made of silk. Han Liuxi's interpretation of names and clothes: skirts, groups and connecting groups. In ancient times, the width of cloth and silk was narrow, and a skirt was generally made up of several pieces of cloth and silk, hence the name "skirt". There have been all kinds of skirts in history, such as: playing ink skirt, phoenix tail skirt, yuet skirt, pearl skirt, Yujin skirt, pomegranate skirt and so on. "New Tang Book Five Elements" records: "Princess Anle ordered the party to wear a hundred birds' hair skirt, with the same color on the face and the same color on the side; Japan and China are the same color, and the shadows are the same color. You can see the shapes of hundreds of birds. "This kind of skirt woven with hundreds of bird feathers was created by Princess Anle, the daughter of Tang Zhongzong, and it was widely popular among aristocratic women at that time, which led to the killing of rare birds on the mountain and was later banned by the court. Luxury ladies are a minority after all, and ordinary women in ancient times wore simple Chai Jing and cloth skirts. Therefore, "hairpin skirt" is also synonymous with ordinary women in China for thousands of years.
The most touching thing about skirts is Wu Zetian's "Ruyi Qu":
Zhu Jian thinks in succession, looking haggard and fragmented.
If you don't believe me, you will cry. Open the box and take the pomegranate skirt.
Who did she write this poem for? In the world of mortals, the vast sea of people. Even if the women in the world are as heroic as Wu Zetian, they still can't escape the long thoughts every night when they see the osmanthus trees in the moonlight. Who can escape?
Love poems before Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties can be seen everywhere with undisguised sincerity and fierceness, as well as Love Poems by Fan Qin, a poet of the Three Kingdoms. In the poem, a couple witnessed their love with various keepsakes, and each keepsake was given a firm belief in love. Some of the tokens mentioned in the poem have been far away from our life today, and some are still passed on between people who love each other until now.
If in ancient times, men still had the freedom to contact with the outside world, then for most women who were confined at home, tokens almost represented that their bodies and minds were wandering in the outside world with their loved ones, so that the tokens carried by their loved ones played a role in making their loved ones see things and think about people.
Gold wrapped in arms
"How to punch? Double gold ring on the arm. "
Gold wrapped in arms
"Double gold rings on the arm" refers to armbands, also called arm wrapping gold, which is a kind of decoration that ancient women in China wrapped around their arms. Gold and silver strips are wound into spiral circles, ranging from three to eight, and there are as many as twelve or thirteen. The secret of wrapping gold around your arm is that no matter from which angle you look, you can see several rings that are unrelated to each other, just like wearing several bracelets. Although Su Dongpo's poem "Cold Ware" is about a kind of food called prickly heat, in the poem, "Sleeping at night in spring is thicker than wine, and beauty is more precious than gold." This sentence is even more reminiscent of a woman wearing arms wrapped in gold, which brings out a little intoxicating charm in a deep sleep, and also shows the effect of ancient women's arm support.
earring
"Why just? Two pearls in the ear "
Women in our country have been dressing themselves up with various earrings since a long time ago. The earliest record can be found in Shan Hai Jing: "A mountain suitable for youth and a mountain suitable for women, with a small waist and white teeth." In the "Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Ke said: "It's not bad to be alert and bright, and pearls penetrate." You can see the fashion of piercing ears since three generations. Earrings are divided into earrings, ear hooks, earrings, earrings and other styles. Li Daiweng in the early Qing Dynasty called the small and simple earrings "cloves" and the complex and gorgeous earrings "lassos" in "Random Thoughts". He said that a woman's "one hairpin and one ear can accompany her all her life", which shows that earrings have a very important position in ancient aesthetic concepts.
sweatband
The oath of Hua Xiren and Jiang Yuhan in A Dream of Red Mansions is a sweat towel made by Hua Xiren for Baoyu and given to Jiang Yuhan.
Sichuan 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.
Sichuan pepper
& lt& lt In The East Gate of the Book of Songs, it tells the story of a man who got a bunch of pepper from a girl at a dance as token of love. When we made a promise, we agreed to have many children in the future. The ancients were actually very straightforward in love.
melons and fruit
"The Book of Songs Feng Wei Papaya" "Vote for me with papaya, and repay me with Qiongju. Not to thank you, always cherish your feelings.
melons and fruit
..... "It's about a man who got papaya, cantaloupe and plum from his beloved woman, and decided to give back all kinds of jade articles to express his wish to be United forever.
hair
The ancients attached great importance to body parts and thought it was also a part of "filial piety" therefore
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xia Houdun was shot in the eye by an arrow and shouted, "The blood of the father, essence and mother must not be abandoned!" Eat your eyes back in one bite. Give a part of your body to your sweetheart to show your infinite love. Hair is naturally the most suitable. Therefore, in ancient times, women often cut off a bunch of hair and gave it to their lovers as a token of love.