Discussion Of The Imitation Of Natural Form On Jewelry Design

The jewelry has a long history. In the history of human society, people used towearing jewelry as a habit. Animal form has been an inexhaustible source ofinspiration for designers, and respected by the people. Jade is a significant carrier ofChinese traditional culture, not only deeply influenced by ancient Chinese, but also animportant and indispensable part of Chinese culture. In ancient China, animalelements are used to be worshiped as totem by given a certain mythology. Jade aremade by craftsmen based on the images of animals, and they had been used in thesacrificial occasions and other religious occasions. Throughout the history of jadejewelry, animal elements are playing an influential role and became most belovedjewelry. An auspicious meaning was giving on these animals elements to expressgood wishes for people themselves, families and friends.In nowadays society, as the rapid developing of material civilization in our country.Jade culture is not a mainstream part of Chinese culture, but the spirit of jade culturestill exists, and the “love knot of jade” still remains in their minds of the Chinese. Thecharacter of Jade is deserving to maintain and respect. On the other hand, Jade hasbeen widely used in the2008Beijing Olympic Games, such as the design of jade sealwith word "Beijing" on it, and the gold inlaid with jade used as an Olympicmedal("Jin Xiang Yu")–No doubt jade culture is the eternal and spiritualrepresentative of Chinese.Design, is a process to express planning, programming and imagining in a visual form.Jewelry design, which means jewelry creating, designers express their creativity andideas by vivid drawings. This thesis is focuses on how the natural elements were usedinto a jewelry design, and emphasize on discussion of the animal elements in jadejewelry design. At present, the development of domestic jade jewelry market is extremely rapid.People remains unexpectedly enthusiastic for jadeite and nephrite, thus its price isincreasing quickly year by year. But in speaking of its developing status, the jadejewelry market is lake of novel and unique design, the unitary popularity of trends, thelimitations of creativity on design. This article is focuses on the development ofanimal elements in jade jewelry making in ancient times; jade jewelry industry play apositive role in promoting the development of China’s society; the new trends ofanimal elements in jade jewelry design. Throughout the studies of jade jewelry design,the new ideas of design will be explored to create more innovation jade jewelry withdistinctive characters of local culture.