Meng can be loved, Meng can be naive and Meng can be kind. Meng culture makes the whole society, especially the young people after 90 s and 2000 s, fondle admiringly. Moreover, with the help of various "cute" performances, the pressure and anxiety from the heart are relieved and the complexity of the world is ridiculed. As a result, the "grass on the head" spread rapidly, and a single spark can start a prairie fire. In this spring tide, the traditional ways of "waiting for words in the boudoir", "selling oneself with grass", "repaying kindness with grass" and "pledge of love" seem to have nothing to do with fashion.
The extended message "grass on the head" is actually just a kind of plastic hairpin. Soft and colorful seedlings sway on black hair, but they have a unique style. Most wearers just want to be "fun" and don't know the real meaning of this kind of hair accessories that became popular overnight.
In other words, hair accessories similar to "grass growing on the head" have existed for a long time in ancient China, and their meanings are quite rich.
One is "boudoir waiting for words". Han girls began to wear a kind of hair pin called "Mao" very early, which is used to curl their hair or wear a hat to show that they have reached the age of marriage. This hair accessory was unearthed in Hemudu site thousands of years ago, which shows its long history. Later, people often used "and logistics" to represent fifteen-year-old girls. _ "Yi" can be regarded as a rite of passage for women.
The second is "selling grass". It is a folk custom to sell oneself with one's head in a draft, which is described in classical novels and operas. "The History of Taoism" says: "You Yujia sighs with grass tassels." Or the beginning of this practice. This is also considered as the earliest grass-roots advertisement. Cao Biao's advertisements were very common in ancient times, such as "Yang Zhi sells knives" in The Water Margin and "Jin Fan sells chickens" in The Scholars, all of which inserted a Cao Biao in the goods.
The third is "enjoying grass". According to Zuo Zhuan, knot grass originated in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the war, an old man in the State of Jin, in order to repay Wei for saving his daughter, tripped Du Hui, the general of the State of Qin, with a rope made of grass, which made the State of Jin win a great victory. Therefore, the earliest meaning of grass is gratitude. Later, someone sold a corpse to bury his father, and wearing grass on his head was also the evolution of the meaning of "repaying kindness". The legend of Chinese medicine Pyrola also has the meaning of repaying kindness and caring.
The fourth is the "token of love". Some minority girls in the south of China will tie a high bun when they get married, and attach a hairpin on it, which can be silver, wood or pheasant feathers. When we are together, the man we like will take it off as a token.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Grass grows on the head