What does "Chinese knot" mean?

Chinese knot is actually an ancient art of weaving, a colorful silk thread, hanging around the room, simple and flavor flow. Natural rich living atmosphere as well as auspicious and beautiful Chinese knot, not only the owner of the blessing of the coming year's peace and prosperity, but also reflects the owner's different personalities and aesthetic concepts. Don't look down on this small Chinese knot, it is an important element of the international fashion trend in recent years, has developed into a number of products. Take a closer look, there are two main series: Auspicious Hanging Decorations and Knotted Clothing. Each series includes several varieties, such as auspicious wall hangings, indoor wall hangings, car hangings, etc.; knotted clothing: rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, belts, classical buckles and so on.

■Chinese knot origin and meaning

Chinese knot is a unique Chinese folk hand-knotted decorations, starting from the ancient ancestors of the rope to remember things. According to "Yi - Department of Rhetoric", "the ancient knotted rope and rule, the later generations of saints easy to the book of the title deed." Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in his "Notes on Zhou Yi", "The knotting of ropes is a covenant; when things are big, big knots their ropes; when things are small, small knots their ropes." It began as a decorative art in the Tang and Song dynasties. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people began to name the knots, giving it a rich connotation, such as: Ruyi knot on behalf of good luck; double-fish knot on behalf of the auspicious surplus, etc., the knot art reached its heyday at that time.

Chinese knots are characterized by the fact that each knot is woven with a single thread from beginning to end, and each basic knot is named according to its shape and meaning. Combining different knots together, or using other ornaments with auspicious motifs, they form traditional auspicious ornaments that are unique, colorful and rich in connotations.

■The Historical Origin of Chinese Knot

China's children learned to tie knots a long time ago, and the knot has always been a pivotal position in the life of the Chinese people, and the knot has such an importance, one of the reasons is because it is a very practical technology, but at the same time, he is also a door to appreciate the art. Here I describe the historical development of the Chinese knot, if the net friend which is a historian, then don't laugh at my little brother's talent is shallow. Let's cut to the chase and get back to the story.

As early as the end of the Paleolithic period, that is, the Beijing Zhoukoudian caveman culture site, archaeologists have found that there is a "bone needle" existence. Since there were needles, there must have been cords and threads, and we deduce that simple knotting and sewing techniques were already in place at that time. The earliest record of writing is the Yi system of words, which reads: "In ancient times, ropes were knotted to remember things, and in later times, the saints used the Book of Deeds to record things", and Zheng Xuan's note on the Zhouyi system reads: "Big things were knotted with ropes, and small things were knotted with ropes", while the numerical symbols seen on the bronze vessels of the Warring States period still have the shape of a rope knotted with ropes, which, judging from these historical data, can be said to have been a predecessor to the written word as knots were once used to assist in memorizing tools. Wearing habits: The earliest clothes did not have today's buttons, zippers and other accessories, so if you want to tie your clothes securely, you can only resort to tying the sash in a knot.

Jade: The Chinese have always had the habit of wearing jade, and the jade pendants of all times, such as the Jade Juan, Jade Long, Jade □, etc., had small holes drilled into them, so that it was easy to pass through the string and tie the pendants to the clothes. In addition, there is also a complete set of jade pendants, which is made up of several different kinds of jade pendants combined into a long string, and the method of linking them is, of course, not by threading a rope and knotting it.

Application: Ancient people have the habit of hanging the seal supervisor in the body, such as the Han seal that has been handed down, square with the seal button. And ancient bronze mirror back center are cast with mirror button, can tie rope in order to hold. From these two places it is not difficult to see, the knot in ancient China in the life of the application is quite extensive.

Sympathetic knot: Ancient people like to use the brocade belt braided into a chain of back-text type of knot to express love for each other, and beautifully known as the concentric knot. Liang Wu Di's poems: "waist double qi belt, dream for the same heart knot" and the Tang Dynasty's music in the workshop, there is still "the same heart knot" the name of the word.

Women's decorations: The scroll of "Women's History" painted by Gu Kaizhi, a great painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, reflects the social situation at that time quite realistically, and we can learn a little bit about women's decorations at that time from the painting. For example, on the belts of the ladies in the painting, there are simple bows with a single wing as a practical decoration. In addition, in the mural paintings of the tomb of Princess Yongtai in the Tang Dynasty, the knot on the waistband of one of the ladies was already what we now call a bow. By the Qing Dynasty, knots were already regarded as an art, with many styles and ingenious patterns. At that time, the use of knots as decorations was quite extensive, and the small and big articles in daily life, such as palanquins, curtains, tent hooks, shoulder pendants, flutes and pipes, incense pouches, hairpins, necklaces, eyeglasses pouches, cigarette pouches and so on, were often braided with beautiful decorative knots underneath, and the knots were often auspicious

Recently, the art of knots and ropes: In the Qing Dynasty, knots developed to a very high level of sophistication, and the knots were made with a very high level of skill. Rope knot development to a very high level of sophistication, both more styles, the name is also clever, simply this beautiful ornament as a work of art in general to talk about. In Cao Xueqin's thirty-fifth of the Red Chamber, "White Jade Chuan tasted the lotus leaf soup, gold Ying clever knot plum blossom complex", there is a paragraph describing the dialogue between Baoyu and Ying'er discussing the knotted complex (complex is one of the knots of the application), explaining the use of knots at that time, the ornaments and knots of the Yenba's deployment, as well as the knots of the name of the style, and so on. Knot for the use of the time can be big, such as friends and relatives to celebrate the gift of the knot, pieces are decorated with intricate and varied knots and tassels. Everyday I see the sedan chair, window, tent hooks, fan pendant, flute, incense bag, hairpins, necklace, glasses bag, tobacco bag, as well as calligraphy and painting scrolls below the wind town and so on daily objects, are also woven with beautiful decorative knots, and sometimes these knots also have another auspicious meaning.

Today's Chinese knot art: since the Republic of China, due to the Western concepts such as science and technology imported in large quantities, so that China's original social patterns and lifestyles produce significant changes, coupled with many inherent cultural heritage has not been preserved and promoted, so that many of the practical value of the low, and the production of time-consuming and laborious traditional culture and technology will be gradually declining, and even in the continuous transformation of the society towards modernization in the They have even disappeared in a society that is constantly changing towards modernization. One of the best examples is the traditional Chinese art of knotting. Another reason for the decline of the art of knot-knitting is that the materials used, whether animal fibers or threads made of plants, are subject to inherent limitations and cannot withstand the physical and chemical erosion over the years, and cannot be passed on to future generations. Culture Center Channel is our staff do their best to show you the history of the favorite crafts, its origin, the current development of Europe, America, Japan and other countries, as well as the latest popular entertainment projects, different styles of work and so on.