Pre - Qin Collection Study

Collection has a longing history. It originated from man's needs for the prevention of natural disaster, and for the maintenance of daily life. Collections as an inherent need of the people, the concept of a budding collections happened in the primitive society,but equate to store. along with the progress of social productive forces and the accumulation of spiritual culture,store turn to collection. Objects of collections accumulate Collector's interest and his/her knowledge lever, esthetic faculty.Collections also reflect characteristic of an era,it reflect achievement of material civilization and spiritual civilization.Collection experienced from germination to maturity, starting with the primitive society, and then going through the Xia-shang-zhou and Spring and autumn and warring age. The process of collection had run through all the development stages of pre-qin period. The guiding principle and the property of stores during every collection periods are distinguishing. Collections of pre-qin period had mark in God worship and social class,there are different with contemporary collection. the primitive people were developed in spiritual belief,this impel the appearance of collection . The esthetic consciousness's seed is primary factor which trancforms primitive man's collection by the subsistence means to the intellectual and artistic product.When humanity experienced first social reformation, namely the appearance of agricultural and animal husbandry, the humanity settled down, The inhabited area and buries area fixed, enabled collectors to have collections stably, in the modern significance collection only then had the possibility.Jade carvings had function with'direct access to heaven and offer sacrifice to land'in Hongshan culture's and in Liangzhu Culture's God worship ceremony and they were only important collection in this era. Three generations of collections suffered"ritual"fetter deeply,and"ritual"also caused the bronzeware monopolizes magnificently in collections in pre-Qin, promoted the bronze craft development. The Warring States was a blustery reformation time, the collections present diverse, the fine refinement,and collection developd to the mature stage, the wealth idea, the interest, the usability and the intellectual curiosity became the intrinsic propelling force of the development of collection.Specially the ofdevelopment of commodity economy and the appearance of the professional merchant as an independent social class, there were greatly rich commodity to be choiced in the market, it had provided the rich origin for the collection industry.The collection in pre-Qin has formed systematization, the establishment of the collection organization has hastened completely. Ancestral temple of a ruling house and warehouse were important places in pre-Qin to collect precious belongings and beloved treasure. When people died,their collections would be put in tombs in before abolishing the burial of dead underground. Cellar is a form of emergency collection. Garden demonstration was a holding exhibition way and it founded the beginning of Chinese exhibition. The above several collection's ways in the objects of collection are different, simultaneously they have the connection in the holding circulation, and it has the related organization and the official to responsible for dispatch .The collection beginning from pre-qin brought up the advocated earlier of collection in China. The method of collection and the variety of stores have lasted till now, and affected people's life and cognition. The social material and spiritual civilization showed from stores of that period enrich the content of Chinese civilization. And it is also the powerful material evidence for China to be the ancient country with civilization.