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304 North Cardinal
St. Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Work Hours
Monday to Friday: 7AM - 7PM
Weekend: 10AM - 5PM
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“Silver Light Like the Moon”
Lin Xiaoyu found a special pure silver bracelet in the silversmith shop at the corner of the alley – nine hollow silver beads, each carved with a different auspicious pattern: lotus, ruyi, auspicious clouds… The old silversmith said: “This is the ‘full moon bracelet’, one is missing.”
“Why nine?” Xiaoyu was curious.
“There are always regrets in life,” the old man smiled and pointed to the empty red rope position, “the tenth one must be filled with experience.”
Xiaoyu bought the bracelet and started working as a nurse wearing it. The first silver bead was blackened by disinfectant, but it shone again when rescuing the first patient; the second silver bead was splashed with mud when escorting patients in a rainstorm night, and was washed clean by the family’s tears the next morning…
Three years later, on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, she sang the last nursery rhyme for the dying old man, and the old man gently buckled an ancestral silver bell on the gap in her bracelet: “Now it’s complete.”
The silver bell rang softly in the moonlight, nine patterns and one bell, just like life – it can only be complete after tempering.
Core meaning:
Accepting flaws: nine silver beads symbolize that life is imperfect
Self-growth: each silver bead that changes color records life experience
Finally complete: the “tenth bead” given by others represents love and inheritance
Silver properties: the more it is polished, the brighter it is, which means that people are sublimated in experience
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