When love comes, no one can be the winner. Before that, of course, you have to wait patiently and keep searching, and at the same time, you have to work hard every day to shape yourself better than yesterday. Because of technology, "finding" your other half is definitely easier and faster than before. However, who would know that the courtship process between men and women in ancient times took longer and was more difficult than it is now? At this time, you may think of the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. This day is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year, symbolizing the arrival of spring.
In ancient times, three days before and after the Lantern Festival, women who were not allowed to go out for nearly the entire year due to customs were allowed to go out to the streets to enjoy the lanterns. When a young man saw a girl he liked, he would ask someone to propose marriage to her. Therefore, the Lantern Festival also created many happy marriages. For example, Ouyang Xiu also wrote a poem: "Last year during the Lantern Festival, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day. The moon was above the treetops, and people made appointments after dusk." Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the "Chinese Valentine's Day." However, there is a second half of this poem: "This year during the Lantern Festival, the moon and the lights are still the same. I can't see the person from last year, and my tears wet my spring shirt sleeves." The person I saw last year can no longer be seen this year. You can imagine how many people missed their good marriages because they were not sure.
(Reference: WIKI )
Making a good marriage is just the beginning. Just like the process of matching pearls, it also requires a little bit of luck, vision and patience. The process of "searching for her in a thousand places" is to find the pearls that can be paired from the vast number of pearls of different sizes and characteristics. Each pearl has its own luster, size, shape, color and flaws. Pearl technicians have to screen and compare each pearl countless times. Those with high requirements may pursue a perfect match. They cannot accept even if the color is the same but the texture is slightly different. Those who can pass the test will then act like a matchmaker to combine the pair of pearls into a pair of gorgeous earrings.
When you receive a pair of pearl earrings, don't forget that someone has taken the time and effort to pair them for you and make them into jewelry.
I wish you wholehearted love, mutual affection, three lives of happiness, four seasons of romance, five colorful lanterns, six joys, seven colorful lives, eight directions of sweetness, ninety-nine happiness, and ten perfections.
I wish you happiness like colorful lanterns in the Lantern Festival, illuminating your sweet life, and sweetness like rice dumplings, making your life complete!