Tibetan Jewelries Bring You to Feel Week Four

In addition to the clothing shoes and hats of Tibetan dress art, jewelry adds brilliance to the traditional costume culture with its various types.

The concept of jewelry acts as "ornament" of human body and clothing in Han culture. While in Tibetan culture, especially for women, it is more apropos with four words "hun shen pi gua", which means all kinds of jewelries with their pendants are throughout the body. There is hair clasp, hairpin, bone ring, jade rock, hair bead and prior chains and all sorts of earrings in the headwear; there is necklace, passementerie, bracket and other ornaments worn in the chest. There is motifs belt, metal Belt, hanging fire pricker, waist bag, Chest hook, Tibetan knife, seashell, tinkler and a large number of exquisite ornaments around wrist. The ring and bracelet, multicolored lace and gold, silver and jewelry of all kinds are all part of Tibetan jewelries. Women of Ali area embellish their necks with coral and agate. These jewelries and pendants are all made by hands of Tibetan folk craftsmen who have unique features in choosing materials and making jewelries. For example, in gold and silver processing and carving patterns for Tibetan knives, metal process of ZangDong DeGe has a high reputation in Tibetan. Jewelry and pendant are for the purpose to decorate. Tibetan nationality thinks a lot of their art and culture and they are very good at changing animals and plants in the life and mascot in the ideal to patterns in the ornaments. With the development of the society, those patterns have become logos of all orders of society and occupational range. What is the more outstanding is that religious culture has strong effect on pattern and Tibetan ethnic gives religions ideas to jewelry. Favor and widespread use to kallaite result from their beauty and blessing of God.

Form of expression of traditional Tibetan jewelry depends on the Tibetans idea, social formation, the traditional modes of production and life, especially the traditional nomadic life. This needs to convert property accumulated by the whole family and even a few generations to jewellery. Since looking for land of abundance all around is both safe and convenient. So what Tibetans wear are not only garment ornaments but also a huge property, which shows both beauty and wealth.