Millennium Hmong Silver Jewelry

The silver jewelry that enters the Miao society is not simply expressed as a proprietary art form of a certain nation, but a mixture of uncompromising. Miao silver jewelry can be divided into headwear, neck ornaments, chest ornaments, hand ornaments, decorative ornaments and bonnets, etc., all made by Miao silversmiths, said to have a thousand years of history. With its diverse varieties, beautiful shapes and exquisite craftsmanship, Miao silver jewelry not only presents a magnificent and colorful art world, but also displays a spiritual world with rich connotations. There are many types of Miao silver jewelry, from head to toe, everywhere. In addition to headwear, chest and neck, hand, clothing, back, waist pendant, there are foot ornaments in some places.

Great beauty

The artistic characteristics of the Miao silver jewelry with great beauty are self-evident. The Miao people's silver horn is almost a convincing example of half of the wearer's height. The pile is big for the mountains, showing the beauty of the hustle and bustle; the water is big for the sea, showing the beauty of the vastness. The unique insights of Miao silver ornaments with great beauty are very reasonable from an aesthetic point of view. And the bonnets, etc., are all made by Miao silversmiths and are said to have a thousand years of history. With its diverse variety, beautiful shape and exquisite craftsmanship, Miao silver ornaments not only present a magnificent and colorful art world, but also show a spiritual world with rich connotations. There are many types of Miao silver ornaments, from head to toe, everywhere. In addition to headwear, chest and neck, hand, clothing, back, waist pendant, there are foot ornaments in some places.

Focus on beauty

Looking at the weight again, the Miao women of Shidong, Guizhou Province, after wearing their ears, expanded the perforations with gradually rounded sticks to ensure that they could wear the popular round-shaped earrings and use the weight of the earrings to lengthen the earlobe. Some women are over-exposed because their earrings are too heavy. The local earrings weigh up to 200 grams. The Lihua Miao women’s silver flower circle is more and more important, and the weight is more than eight pounds.

Too much beauty

The artistic characteristics of "multiple" on the Miao silver jewelry are also very amazing. Many Miao people wear silver ornaments to pay attention to beauty. The earrings are hung three or four, folded to the shoulders; the collars are worn by three or four pieces, and the neck is not covered; the enamel and waist ornaments are all worn and worn. In particular, the silver coats in the Qingshui River Basin have hundreds of combinations, and the overlap is complicated, presenting a kind of complex beauty. The materialization of this kind of conscious consciousness is not difficult to see in other ethnic groups. The tattooing practice of the Yi men pays attention to the wider the tattoo part and the more complex and beautiful the pattern; the Hani girl in the courtship period wears dense beadwork and shell ornaments; the “Garonne” backing of Tibetan women in Qinghai pastoral area fully reflects Pursuing the aesthetic principle of the big and many; the Deang people's waistband is as large as thirty or forty laps, which is typical of the number of jewelry. It is true that the pursuit of complexity is more than beautiful, not just the Miao family.