Traditional Jade Culture And Its Effect On Designing Of Modern Emerald Jewelry

There are 7000 years jade culture history in China, emerald is an important component in jade culture, the emerald had predominated the field of jade article since it entered into China in the last stage of Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty, and affected the overseas culture with the Chinese culture spreading. The emerald jewelry looks beautiful and elegant, which exactly conforms to the Chinese traditional culture's essence and is the symbol of classical and ethereal character. It is origin from classical character but being rich in modern culture. These emerald carved auspicious pictures are the symbol of luck and happiness, they become a kind of so-called blessing jewelries.Wears the emerald jewelry are different with the diamond, it shows a specific Chinese character of elegance and dignity : Showing a kind of Eastern culture; Cultivating the people's mind by appreciating its art value; It is a component of religious culture; Correcting the human being's moral behave by what the people defined the internal moral character of jade; It is the symbol of wealth.The carving and enchasing in emerald jewelry developed gradually since it from the ancient to present. .Emerald has been collected and treasured by more and more people recently. Based on the traditional carving techniques, the emerald carving technology already had certain impro- vement, it worked excellently, designed ingeniously and the proportion was coordinated. The enchasing craft is a new force suddenly rise, new enchasing techniques and new manufacture craft have a better manifestation of "the gold and jade predestined match". But because of many limitations in traditional subject and the effects of Chinese-Western culture difference in the attention of choosing materials, the development of emerald jewelry restrained at certain extent and progressed for further very slowly.We mainly investigated in a well-known jade sale enterprise---QiCaiYunNan, which is a large scale and high quality jade sale enterprise in China, meanwhile participated in their emerald enchasing design. Many years of work experience helpedus directly understand the current progress of emerald designing. Overall, the emerald design is still remained in the traditional designing dogma, without innovative idea and obvious specific characteristic, and what's more it could not efficiently reflect the emerald's cultural value and historical signi -ficance.After analyzing the people's understanding and favor of emerald in domestic and overseas markets, we summarized the prediction and progressive idea in emerald jewelry's development tendency: 1 knew very well the domestic and overseas consumers'interest, and rooted the emerald in people's mind; 2 utilized the western jewelry's conception to break the culture barrier; 3 got the Eastern and Western cultural soul together to create an worldwide jade market.In conclusion, if we want to perfect the emerald design, we must get the modern ideology, super craft and the excellent quality of material into a whole body, must get the emerald and its culture value together to form the modern design to show all people the transcendental designing and excellent emerald jewelry. Meanwhile it required the designer concentrated on the own mastered materials and understood the emerald's history and culture, only in this way it would be benefit for them to tap their potential ability and to diversify the emerald design.