Lin Ching Hsia Has Kept This Pair Of Pants For Over 30 Years, Here’s Why

Taiwanese screen goddess Lin Ching Hsia’s S$690mil mansion caught fire  in July, and the 67-year-old former actress recently penned her thoughts about the unfortunate incident in a news column.

Ching Hsia and her family were in Indonesia when they were informed of the fire. She was initially confused by her daughter Yin Oi Ying’s behaviour as the latter was crying while talking to someone on the phone. 

“After I understood what happened, within a second, I was hugging my daughter and telling her we should be thankful. The entire family, all three generations, were on a ship together and none of us were left behind,” said Ching Hsia, who was also relieved that her staff and pets back home were safe.

All of Ching Hsia’s belongings were moved to her other house in the Mid-Levels district. She joked that the house is now “filled to the brim” and it seemed as though she had caused another "disaster" there.

Of all her possessions, there was an item of clothing Ching Hsia really cherishes: a pair of floral pants, which she has kept for over 30 years.

Ching Hsia was super relieved that the pants had not been damaged in the fire as four generations of women in her family have worn them.

She revealed that she first got the pair of inexpensive pants in Taipei when she was younger, and her mum had altered them for her.

“After getting married and giving birth to my first daughter, my mum came to visit me in Hong Kong, and she brought the pants along," she wrote.

Ching Hsia revealed that her daughters have worn the pants, as well as her stepdaughter Claudine's daughters.

“This pair of floral pants have been worn by my daughters and granddaughters at different times, and it signifies happiness [for me]," she wrote, adding that whenever the younger ones put on the pants, she would tell the story of the love her mum, who is no longer around, had put into sewing it.

Since the fire in the mansion did not reach her room, her clothes and books are all currently in her Pun Shan house.

Ching Hsia says she has come to realise that she does not need “so many material goods” and has since given a lot of it away to her staff, daughters and friends. 

She was then able to tidy her things up in the new place in a matter of days and wrote that she couldn’t think of anything better than this outcome, as it has brought everyone so much happiness.

Photos: Lin Ching Hsia/ Weibo, Sinchew News