A former ambassador's wife whose ancestor was a high-ranking Ching official had two strings of court beads in her trousseau, but she too never set much store by these pieces of "headgear" which were "just too long to wear to go out."
一位先祖在清朝任過高官，嫁妝中曾有兩串朝珠的前大使夫人，也沒有特別寶貝這兩串「太長了，戴不出門」的「首飾」。