'Jewelry design ideas, in the end, where is the origin?

Human beings wear jewelry when exactly, I am afraid it is difficult to accurately prove. But we can easily imagine, from the time mankind began to realize that decoration and beautification of their own time, mankind and it has formed an unbreakable bond. The most primitive human jewelry can probably be traced back to the distant Stone Age.

From the collection of Paleolithic data found around the world and modern primitive tribal data, people can find that the early primitive body jewelry forms are: necklace, waist, arm, wrist, headdress and so on several kinds of jewelry, and these forms of especially in the necklace and waist mainly. They are largely decorated around the reproductive areas of the human body, the reason for this, in addition to the ability of these parts to support the wearer, a large number of studies show that this choice also has another purpose.

Animal body color and pattern is also a kind of body ornaments, natural body ornaments, male bird headdresses, necklaces, chest ornaments, tail ornaments, and so on often in the breeding season regular changes and display, and these decorations on the attraction of the opposite sex is quite effective, a large number of biological materials to confirm that the animal's beautiful decorations in the process of sexual selection has a great advantage. Body tattooing is a similar form of body decoration, and body decoration is precisely the qualitative change of the extension of the natural decoration of animals.

The earliest body ornaments of the Late Paleolithic found around the world, whether they are animal teeth, feathers, or stone beads, etc. They all have a very distinctive feature: smooth, regular, small and beautiful. And this feature further illustrates the body ornaments produced by the makeup makeup, self-exhibition, to attract the opposite sex of the important psychological motivation. Therefore, it is very scientific to say that the origin of body jewelry is psychologically derived from the beauty of physiological instincts. And from this origin motive derived from the "human body beautification" function is the most primitive and fundamental function of jewelry.

There are two other important motives in the origin and development of jewelry, one is the religious function motive, and the other is the social function motive, and these two motives are based on the physiological instinctive motive, on the basis of which the development and evolution. Religion originated from the witchcraft of prehistoric mankind, and the religious motive for the development of body ornaments was gradually formed and y rooted in people's minds precisely in the witchcraft activities of prehistoric mankind and under the guidance of such witchcraft ideas. Primitive mankind in the process of labor practice, and gradually on the natural world and their lives are closely related to some of the materials such as plant fruits, seeds, animal feathers, teeth, bones, as well as stone (jade) material to produce a kind of hazy mystical view, they will even be their own sorcery activities as the object of worship, endowed with mysterious power.

For example, they would hang the fruits or seeds of plants on the mother's body to pray for the reproduction of children; they would wear and hang the furs, teeth, and bones of hunting animals on their bodies in order to seek the success of the hunt and their own safety; the worship of stone (jade) material is originated from the primitive people's deep affection for the stone tools, which have a slight luster and bright and vivid color, which is regarded as the gift of a mysterious master to them in their minds. In this process, the connotation of this natural cult object was gradually enriched, and the initial enlightenment idea of Chinese jade culture originated from this. In the various cultures of the Chinese Stone Age, jade was always regarded as a kind of nature worship object with rich spirituality, and was widely used in witchcraft ceremonies. It was also carried by prehistoric people as a decoration to beautify themselves and as a good-luck charm to ward off evil spirits and turn misfortune into good fortune. In ancient Western civilization, colored gemstones familiar with a very long time, they are familiar with and the use of the process of the same has been given some kind of mysterious religious power, the ancient Babylonian country in 6000 years ago will be offered to the goddess emerald in front of the statue of the goddess to pray for some kind of mysterious power, sea orchid gemstone is regarded as the essence of the sea water, in order to pray to the god of the sea to bless the voyage or the safety of the fishery.