The Inspiration Of Modern Jewelry Design From Traditional Manchu Marriage Culture

The Manchu is a industrious and courageous nationality. The Manchu used tooccupy a leading position in the Chinese history, and the Manchu peoples created aunique Manchu culture by their wisdom. As the need of Manchu prosperity andprosperous as well as social development, the marriage began to appear. It was theproduct of socialization. In the evolution of history, the marriage customs not onlyexisted and in the form of ideas, but also handed down from generation to generation byLanguages. Although Marriage customs were a large number of extremely trivialbehaviors in people’s minds, it is fact that the Manchu marriage custom is a uniquecultural form. Because the Manchu Marriage custom generated under specific historicalcircumstances, and through a long evolution, the Manchu Marriage custom was able toshow the unique trajectory of Manchu marriage cultural development and the importantimpact of contemporary culture.To study and arrange Manchu marriage culture will be important to draw on otherssuccessful experience and Make up for a lack of our own. By summarizing thedevelopment of the Manchu marriage culture, and exploring the use of jewels in theManchu marriage, it is able to provide valuable reference and new ideas to modernjewelry design.In this paper, the most artistic valuable part of Manchu marriage culture wasresearched, including the Manchu marriage culture of both nobility and civilians, andthe dowry of Manchu marriage culture. Then the characteristics of Manchu marriageculture were summed. Firstly, two forms of artistic presentation ‘auspicious’ jewelryand ‘ceremony’ vessel were proposed and researched. Secondly, two maincharacteristics of Manchu traditional marriage custom art design were Summed, onewas topicality, the other was mental functionality. Thirdly, two art design techniques in Manchu marriage culture were proposed, they were ‘figure for emotion’ and ‘similarnature for emotion’. At last, these design features, design ideas, design techniques weresummed, in order to provide a lot of ideas and thoughts to modern jewelry design.