East Asia · China · Children
Longevity lock (Changming suo)
A small silver lock, the changming suo or ‘long-life lock’, worn by children in China. We found no early record of the lock itself: it is later folk silver. It is linked with an older custom, the five-colour long-life thread.No early record of the lockNot recordedWe found no early record of the silver lock itself: no dated text, object or picture in our files. It is later folk silver. The custom it is linked with is older, and is told in the next layer. If you know of an early dated lock, we would like to hear of it.No early record
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