Dee Salmon

But there were a few sort of key moments in Chinese history, for example, in the Tang Dynasty, which was 618 to 907 CE.

There was a bunch of like classical Chinese poetry that was like very emboldened, like yearning, like really rich devotion of people like declaring their love.

But something that I found really interesting though in ancient China was that they often gave gifts to lovers to sort of show their like appreciation and their love for people.

So it wasn't necessarily like words.

Yeah.

Um, things kind of like hairpins, jade pendants, they had spices in these like little satin bags that they would like wear on their sleeves, classic things like rings and bracelets.

But one thing that really stood out to me was giving somebody a comb.

So giving somebody a comb meant like one of the deepest, like symbolic things to be like, I want to be with you for the rest of my life.

And it was like a really beautiful way to express like super, super deep emotional love for somebody.

Yeah.

Even like an article that I read, they said a comb like symbolizes being like, I want to be entangled with you for the rest of my life.

And when you think about like, and you see like maybe pictures, maybe you haven't seen these before, but like, you know, those like beautiful, like beautiful,

pearl inlay combs.

Like they were just like unbelievable.

I feel like I've seen them at museums.

I was about to say that.

And now I'm kind of understand like the significance of that and like such a beautiful object and like how culturally symbolic it meant in a love sense.

And yeah, I just found that really fascinating and I'd never, never really investigated that before.

So yeah, it goes to show that there are different ways that yeah, like people in all different cultures have been showing their love.

Yes.