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From the Vault: The Invention of the Lock & Key

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The Chinese Wedding Lock Tradition

The chinese wedding lock tradition also came out of this, and is still practised to day with inscribed padlocks. So you can see the obvious symbolic connection there, that like, the lock is security, theLock is protection. And if you want to see some examples of this, there's a web sidte called primal treck. That treck is spelled like star treck, primal treck dot com. It has lots of cool photographs, and you can see examples of these lock charms There.

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