Studies Of Chinese Zodias Ornament Design And Demand Of Jewelry

In our ancient times, people show deep interest in animals, either admiration or fear. People treat animals as their ancestor, which seems that the blood relationship between animal and people is similar. For each branch of the ancient art, Chinese zodiac acts as material in various fields all along. It is necessary to excavate zodiac culture and make full use of predecessors’ wisdom, which will inherit our traditional culture.Consulting a lot of related literature and historical works, the article analyses the source of Chinese zodiac culture, pieces together the intention of zodiac culture. Pushing aside the carrier of zodiac culture, all kinds of art work bring out resonance, such as the form from paper-cut to national ornament, from the carrier of zodiac art, from the year of rabbit to commemorative coin and so on. The different forms of zodiac culture, and languages form will be the inspiration source of jewelry design.Studying the relationship between foreign zodiac culture and Chinese zodiac culture, the article makes a definition between the culture above., and excavate the relationship between them, which adds different intention of spirit culture to the zodiac jewelry design, empty potence into zodiac ornament design at the same time.Dating back the history of Chinese zodiac jewelry, the article reorganize the kind material and intention of zodiac jewelry, which reflects various understandings to zodiac. Besides, the article analyses carefully foreign on zodiac jewelry. It is easy to find that the feature of zodiac ornament design shows respect on the elements of zodiac, extracting the essence of zodiac. Combing with the design idea of Industrial Revolution, it develops a new situation of zodiac jewelry design.In the basic of survey for the market, the article analyses the market situation of zodiac jewelry in monkey year and the demand of zodiac jewelry in the year of rooster, the article finds that the common one takes a large place, especially for cartoon. Although these zodiac make a heavy influence, it blocks the last design of zodiac ornament. It is necessary to combine the history of zodiac culture and modern idea of jewelry design.In the basic of holding the demands of market and combing with the former design quintessence, together with the modern need of beauty, the art experiences on zodiac ornament design and produces the jewelry ‘waving zodiac’, which relates to zodiac culture.