| Stephen Tai Feb.22, 1998 |
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For Elder Female’s Birthday Inscriptions: Chi Sze, Zhong Dong Yuei, Yuong Bao Fang Ling, which means: ' The mid of the 11th month of Year Chi-Sze (the 8th year of Tong Zhi Period or 1869). Stay Young Forever'. Size: 56 (L) x 63 (W) mm. Weight: 78 g |
Silver lockers have been one of the most popular birthday gifts in Chinese communities now and then. The choice of form of locker, is for the blessing of 'To lock up one’s faith, so that the evil spirits will not be able to take it away'.
To dedicate such a good-luck symbolic silverware as a birthday present, was, however, more elegant than to send good-luck sycee in old China. Because that sycee was also kind of currency in China, to use currency as a gift, for this conservative people sometime would be too 'direct'.
In another respect, such a delicate handicraft, had to consume considerable time and cost, it was a luxury gift that few people in the past could afford it. Therefore, it could be one of the special made for and from the riches in Ching’s period.
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For New Born Baby’s Birthday Inscriptions: Bai Gia Bao Suo, Chang Ming Fu Kuei, which means 'Locker Holds Safe Hundreds of Families, Longevity with Fortune and Nobility'. Size: 566 x 3 mm. Weight: 31 g |
Such kind of silver locker, may be expected as using among the-middle-class people.