Visual Culture Research Of Traditional Silver Ewelry Long-life Locks At The Turn From Qing Dynasty To The Republic Of China

Long-life locks belongs to the ancient Chinese traditional jewelry lock, also known as Qing dynasty lock, as early as in the form of "five colors" string, then slowly appeared long strand, also known as long cable. Long-life locks from an initial prototype development to the Qing dynasty, after a long history of impregnation, formed the rich content, species diversity,style and changeable Long-life locks silver system, its production process in the silver ornaments made on the technology of inheritance and optimization, produced a series of process quality elaborate Long-life locks. The custom of wearing Long-life locks to the late Qing dynasty and early republic period evolved into people established a kind of folk custom,the decoration and wear becomes a kind of form, intension of comprehensive social behavior.In this paper, based on the social, historical and cultural background of the late Qing dynasty and early republic period, around the Long-life locks two big aspects, artistic characteristics and cultural connotation of horizontal and vertical in-depth research, explore its form aesthetics and connotation of the folk. Longitudinal research mainly from the evolution and inheriting two aspects to explore the origin, process, mining Long-life locks formation of the background and reason of enduring, explore the spiritual demand derived under the creation of culture; Cross-sectional study mainly from Long-life locks modelling analysis of anatomical structure and decoration design, to explore its underlying form aesthetics and behind bearing auspicious culture and ethics. From history, economy, culture,folk custom, aesthetic multi-angle, multi-dimensional to parse Long-life locks, explore its condensed the essence of national civilization and spiritual civilization. After a long historical evolution and the mutual penetration of every culture, formed the Long-life locks with bright color culture, rooted in the Chinese traditional auspicious culture, integrating history,literature, folk custom, aesthetic, a record of the Chinese nation has a long history of folk culture and colorful folk customs.