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Traditional Housewarming Gift Ideas

You have to keep in mind traditional housewarming poetry while purchasing traditional housewarming gifts for your near one and dear one. A traditional housewarming poem explains about contents of an intimate housewarming gift :

Bread :- So you never go hungry.
Wine :- So your life is always sweet.
Salt :- So there is always spice in your life.
And a Candle :- So you always have light.

Now-a-days besides these traditional housewarming gifts bread, wine, salt, and candle; there are other elements which are used as housewarming gifts. These elements are :

a broom :- to sweep the evil out of the house
honey :- representing the sweetness of life
olive oil :- to bring in health and light in the life
a plant :- that will ensure life
a coin :- to bring good fortune for that year
a wood :- to maintain stability, peace and harmony at home.

Besides these some traditional housewarming gifts can be :

lucky bamboo stalks
bonsai trees
wind chimes
cat's eye-a type of feng shui
charms and crystals and many more.

The main traditional gifts in China are golden rice bowls and rectangular Chinese rosewood tray. There is a famous traditional art piece Cloisonne known as Blue of Jingtai which has a history of over 500 in China. This can be a very good traditional housewarming gift.