The history of earrings

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Earrings
Earrings have a long history. From divination and protection to disease and evil, from the pursuit of wisdom to the pursuit of fashion, from the control of "humble slaves" to trendy women to fashionable men, earrings have gone through the ages, spanning time and space, and constantly emit eternal 'shining' light.
Primitive humans had the habit of piercing their ears and wearing earrings. The earliest person with perforations on the ear is a pottery figurine with ear holes unearthed at the Neolithic Yangshao Cultural Site in Chaijiaping, Tianshui, Gansu Province, which has been 5000 years since.
"The origin of earrings" mainly includes the following statements:
1. Wearing earrings is related to ancient superstitions. The legendary demons and other spirits always want to enter the human body and seize the human body. Therefore, all possible orifices on the human body must be specially guarded. And earrings are lucky lucky lucky charms worn on the ears.
2. In ancient China, wearing earrings was once the symbol of "the lowly". In the book "Reading of the Qing Dynasty" of the Ming Dynasty, it was said that "women wear earrings to cover their ears since ancient times. It is the matter of the humble." The original meaning of ear piercing is not decoration, but to play a role of warning. Because some women are too active and unwilling to stay at home, some people think of putting a hole in the women's ear and hanging ear beads to remind them to behave and act cautiously. However, women at that time were not as enthusiastic about piercing the ear as women today, but were in a forced position. In the Song and Ming Dynasties, due to the rise of the ideology of ethics, the trend of women's piercing the ear was unprecedented popular; Not to mention ordinary women, even queens and concubines are no exception. Over time, wearing earrings has become a fashion.
3. In some tribes in the world, long earlobe is a symbol of beauty. Girls have been wearing ear holes since childhood. As they grow older, they wear more and more heavy earrings. Make the earlobe longer and longer. If the earlobe is unfortunately broken because it cannot bear the heavy burden for a long time, all her beauty will be broken immediately. For men, ears are the center of wisdom. Smart people must have big ears. Heavy earrings will pull down the earlobe to make it longer, and the relative people will also become more intelligent.
4. The first men with earrings were sailors. They believe that ear piercing can protect them from drowning. After that, the men wearing earrings were not only sailors, because men wearing earrings were considered to be the symbol of homosexuality, but also produced a lot of secret words, such as wearing earrings in the left ear to represent homosexuality, while wearing earrings in the right ear was bisexual, and so on. With the popularity of rock singers, men wearing earrings have completely lost their sexual significance, but most of them are still men at the bottom of the society, or the trendy people who hang safety blades, light bulbs, etc. on their ear holes.
5. The upper-class society has also gradually accepted that men wear earrings. For example, when super professional athletes sign high-paying contracts, they will also openly adorn the earlobe with a bright diamond. This seems to confirm that men have the right to take pains to dress up like women.
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Nowadays, young girls look beautiful and handsome when wearing earrings of all kinds, but do you know how the custom of wearing earrings comes from.
Here is another interesting story. It is said that in ancient times there was a girl who suffered from eye disease and soon became blind. Later, she was lucky to meet a famous doctor who thought she could recover her eyesight. With the consent of the girl, she picked up the glittering silver needle and stabbed a silver needle in her ear lobes on both sides. After that, a miracle occurred and the girl saw the light again. The girl was very grateful, so she asked the silversmith to refine a pair of earrings and wear them on her ears to show that she would never forget the kindness of famous doctors. When the girl wore the silver earrings, she became more and more beautiful, and told the fame of famous doctors. After the miracle of piercing the ear and wearing the ring to brighten the eyes has spread one after another, many girls and women from rich families have been wearing the ear and ring, which has spread to this day and become a symbol of noble status.