The Origin Of The Bracelet

First of all, it is the need for survival. In the primitive society, humans were protecting themselves in the struggle against nature.

Himself, to avoid the harm of beasts, often put the skins, horns and other things hanging on their heads, arms, wrists or feet, on the one hand is to pretend to be the same kind of prey to confuse the other side, on the other hand, The skin hide corner itself is a defense or attack weapon. As for the small gravel, small animal bones or beast teeth that hung on the neck, waist or wrist, in addition to the earliest unconscious decorations of mankind, the real role of the people is probably to count or record.

Second, it is a symbol of power. In the primitive society, which is very simple, human beings must take food from nature and overcome fierce wild beasts, which undoubtedly requires courage and strength. In the eyes of the primitive people, the beasts are full of strength. Their sharp claws, hard bones, and beautiful fur must have played an important role. Then, after catching these beasts, human beings eat them and eat them, and then wear their bones and teeth in a string and wear them on the body, so that they can absorb the power of beasts and use it to overcome the fierce beasts. It seems that from among these original jewellery, the primitive people received some spiritual comfort and strength.

On the other hand, the more a person wears such jewelry, the more likely he is to wear more and more expensive jewelry. In fact, these brave people often like to decorate themselves with some colorful and easily recognizable bodies, such as beautiful feathers, beastly teeth, rare shells and even precious “beautiful stones” (jade stones) as symbolic symbols. To show and show off their strength and authority. Plekhanov said in “On Art”: “These things were originally worn as brave, clever, and powerful markers, but only later. It was because they were brave, clever, and powerfully marked that they began to cause The sense of aesthetics falls under the scope of decorations.”

Third, it is a kind of totem worship. The sun, moon, and stars are thunderous and thunderous. These are all ordinary natural phenomena; but in the eyes of primitive people, these things have some miraculous power. Primitives live with nature from morning until evening, and are associated with the sun, the moon, the stars, the river and the flying beasts. They worship the nature that these natural worlds have given them. Over time, this material was deeply imprinted in their minds and became a totem with magical power. Their right-wingers regard it as their ancestor or protector, or treat it as a blood relative of this clan and the tribe. In the beginning, in order to make these totems able to protect themselves, they have assimilated themselves into these totems. Slowly, people integrated these totems into their jewelry and made their jewelry into the shape or shape of these totems, such as the round bracelets and rings like the sun, the full moon; birds’ crowns, hair tresses, etc. Wait.

Fourth, as a kind of amulet. Engels pointed out: “In ancient times, people still did not know their physical structure and were affected by the scene in their dreams, so they came up with the idea that their thinking and feelings were not their physical activities, but they were unique. , living in this body and dying from the body’s soul when it died.” The primitive people believed that everything had a soul, and that the soul had a distinction between good and evil, and that it was the good spirit that brought happiness and joy to mankind. It is evil spirits that come to disaster and disease. In order to make those evil spirits unable to be close, and at the same time to be protected by good spirits, the primitive people use ropes to put on shells, small gravel, feathers, beast teeth, leaves and fruits, and they believe that these things have a kind of The supernatural power that is invisible to the human eye can be blessed by anyone, and evil will be driven away. These things that reduced protection and exorcism later became a kind of special jewelry on the human body in the form of some decorations. Moreover, this custom and significance have also been preserved. Jewelry has also been given more beautiful sustenance and mysterious colors.