Grandma's jewelry box
Yif
Yadao
2015-01-08 15:29:54
Grandma's jewelry box
My grandmother is ladylike.
Ladylike means grandmother was born in the south of the Wu family Scholar. When she was a little girl, when nearly half of this southern town street shops are her father and uncles opened. Because deep feelings among their brothers, help each other, plus well-run, the business will be bigger and bigger, rice shops, oil shop, grocery store, tailor shop, shop ...... Charm Beneath some self-employed, some are leased to tenants each shop business is very prosperous, they thus became the largest local well-off.
Ladylike means grandmother was born in the south of the Wu family Scholar. When she was a little girl, when nearly half of this southern town street shops are her father and uncles opened. Because deep feelings among their brothers, help each other, plus well-run, the business will be bigger and bigger, rice shops, oil shop, grocery store, tailor shop, shop ...... Charm Beneath some self-employed, some are leased to tenants each shop business is very prosperous, they thus became the largest local well-off.
Grandma has loved reading, independent character, in that era, able to break free of old ideas imprison, and admitted to medical school to become a good female doctor is needed very strong independent spirit. This is something.
I want to say is that my great-grandfather was a very high literacy businessman, he can write beautiful hand Yan style, often gather together with a bunch of literati poetry and painting. One can imagine that such a wealthy and also taste great-grandfather at home must be a collection of countless antique baby pictures and artifacts. Every night, he likes to enjoy alone Zhangdeng, heart play, will be happy when summoned to explain the children study together, that's when my grandmother got this gorgeous jewelry box.
Later, it went through a man-made catastrophe, my grandfather passed away Vengeful, the home of all the treasure trail also disappeared overnight, and some were burned, some were looting the. It is the only surviving piece hidden in the hands of the grandmother's mahogany jewelry box.
My childhood was spent together and grandmother, the barren years, we were able to have a few personal items, in addition to simple necessities, ordinary families can look forward to what things? However, since the discovery of the grandmother had such a brilliant baby, my life will be a happy lot.
Bird jewelry boxes loaded with I do not know how many childhood dream. Grandmother lost it on a desk in the corner room paint, leaning next to a stack of medical books. Jewelry box color is very complicated, mahogany base is wiped too Liangliang top tortoiseshell inlaid with colored thin circle pattern, the middle is a carved copper button, above a glowing golden inlaid again big round pearls, the front of the box with a thin gold line drawing of a woman wearing a dress, she executed under the willow stand fan, waist graceful, tall bun with phoenix hairpin hairpin. An octagonal distance also sat two girls, are saying something whisper it, they Yanzui smile, facial features trace of joy. The most subtly, depicting peony pink hands on the woman next round fan willow, that turned out to be exquisite mosaic inlaid with jade green made her phoenix hairpin and earrings are also respectively shiny jade and pearl foil the look is really perfect.
The back of the box with colored shells makes up a beautiful dressing chart, I saw her Xiaojian Liu Mei, red lips with spring, glamorous too captivating.
Little me, it all day lying beside caskets imagination, dream of thinking if one day it belongs to me, and I will treasure what was inside it? For that I would have a good plan, I want next to red and a small army gave me a glass rope tie hair, ah, ah issuing plastic, glass beads necklace, ah, small shells bracelet to string together all the hidden ah inside, then put the pillow next to it, I want to see every day and night look, maybe beauty child at some point on that box will smile at it, it would be kind of magical and wonderful moment ah.
Later, my grandmother would really gave me this jewelry box. Later, she left us.
Time flies, in the long years, I have traveled to many places, domestic and foreign, whenever met a beautiful jewelry box, I could not help them to take home. So I collected a lot of different styles of jewelry boxes, however, grandmother jewelry box is always the most important position occupied on the dresser. For me, it is not just valuable antiques, it is our emotional sustenance and heritage of three generations.
Time flies, in the long years, I have traveled to many places, domestic and foreign, whenever met a beautiful jewelry box, I could not help them to take home. So I collected a lot of different styles of jewelry boxes, however, grandmother jewelry box is always the most important position occupied on the dresser. For me, it is not just valuable antiques, it is our emotional sustenance and heritage of three generations.