Culture Insider: Love tokens preferred by ancient Chinese
( chinadaily.com.cn ) Updated: 2014-08-01 07:15:13Hairpin
As a frequently used love token, a hairpin may also mean the legal wife (as contrasted with concubine). There was a story that told of a woman who made a hairpin for her distant lover with lots of devotion, but one day news came that the man fell into love with another woman. The woman burned the hairpin and dumped the ashes into wind to show her resolve of not to being a concubine.
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