| Souvenirs reflect the historic and cultural connotation, craft skills and materialresources of a country or a region. China is a multi-national country with56ethnicgroups, each nation presents colorful and glorious, unique characteristics of culturalcharacteristics. The explosion of the deep cultural art in China is solid foundation and thesource of innovation in the development of souvenirs. At present, what the developmentof souvenir market in our country should be faced and solved are that inheriting indevelopment and developing in innovation. So it is very important to protect the culturesof all ethnics, study the original ecological cultures, explore colorful national resources,improve ecological ideas which are respecting for nature, cherishing ecosystem,advocating natural and promoting harmonious in every nation, especially the minorities.Based on such situation, how to refine the culture of the brocade of Dong nationality therepresentative of Dong culture into the modern tourist souvenirs’ design field, isbecoming an very important research project. In order to design unique souvenirs whichfilled with local cultural characteristics, this paper attempts to explore elements ofdesigning and creating from the brocade of Dong nationality. |