Ancient machines were underdeveloped, why can they make beautiful ornaments?

China ancient women's ornaments are all hand-made, and there are countless styles. China's most famous traditional production techniques, such as filigree technique, blue burning technique, flower carving technique, touch-up technique, mosaic technique, etc.

Filament technology Filament technology is a traditional technology in China, and its manufacturing steps are complicated and tedious. It needs to process precious metals such as gold or pure silver into silk, and then process it into a refined gold process of gold and silver jewelry by means of coiling, kneading, filling and stacking. The production process of filigree requires the eight characters of "folding, laying, weaving, pinching, filling, saving and welding" as the essence, and pinching, saving and welding as the basic techniques.

The blue burning process is also called "silver blue burning" because this blue can only be burned on the surface of silverware. It needs to fill the whole carcass with colored glaze, and then bake it in a high temperature furnace at 800 degrees Celsius to melt the colored glaze into liquid. Because glass is a copper wire hell, it needs to be filled and baked repeatedly, usually 4 or 5 times in a row, until the particles are filled evenly with the wire, and after cooling, it becomes a gorgeous glass.

Flower carving technology is still used by craftsmen today, which began in the late Spring and Autumn Period and was most popular in the Warring States Period. It is different from engraving and engraving. In the process of flower carving, no metal material is cut off. There are two ways to make flower carving skills: one is to make flower carving metal jewelry that is only knocked from the front; Secondly, pat the floating flower product from the back, and then pat it from the front to enhance its effect.

The jewelry made by Diancui technology is characterized by bright colors, beautiful luster and never fading. The initial development of Diancui craft reached its peak in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of Qing Dynasty. Fully experienced the wisdom and artistic creativity of the ancient working people. Diancui is the perfect combination of traditional metal craft and feather craft in China. First, the bases with different patterns are made of gold or gold-plated metal, and then the bright blue feathers on the kingfisher's back are carefully inlaid on the bases to make various jewelry objects.

Mosaic technology It uses gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, jade, ivory, bamboo, bone, wood and horn as raw materials, absorbs the modeling design and decorative style of Mongolian, Tibetan, Miao and Manchu minority metal handicrafts, and produces handicrafts with traditional characteristics with exquisite skills. Used to call it mosaic, or "mosaic" for short. For more than 2000 years, traditional inlay technology has been applied to the processing technology of jewelry, gold and silver utensils and metal handicrafts.

So many ancient crafts have been lost, and some have been passed down by a few people, which is really a broken chain of our inheritance. Of course, there are also many craftsmen in modern times who combine ancient crafts to create modern ornaments, health vase pendants carved for health, essential oil crystal bottles developed for fashion and so on. ...

Although China's handicrafts are still in a weak position in society and lack of communication in the industry, modern people pay more and more attention to inheritance, and more and more handicrafts will be copied.