The Aesthetics And Application In Jewelry Design Of Miao’s Dragon Patterns

Nowadays, international communication are increasing, economic and cultural development are great, and China is having more and more right to speak in the world.Foreign culture penetration and Chinese culture export are more and more frequent. It influences many fields. In jewelry industry, plenty of high-end jewelry brand is entering China market, which makes China jewelry market merging with the world,but these jewelry’s design are very foreign culture based, very few of them have Chinese culture in it. Some of them just borrowed the simple pattern, but not starting from the origin and aesthetics of culture.In China society, there are plenty ethnical elements. They are lively, wild, and natural, very similar to the current trend of jewelry design. With the communication between Eastern and Western world, so many different traditional characters and elements are becoming the origin of more and more inspiration of designs, enriching the diversity and creativity of art.In southeast of Guizhou Province of China, the Miao and Dong minorities, their traditional dragon pattern represents the ancient ethnical spirit. It not only reflects Miao people’s living environment, but also reflects Miao’s totem worship, ethnical culture history and witchcraft culture. Dragon pattern shows up in Miao’s paper cut arts, stitchworks, waxprintings, and silverwares. It contains lots of styles, has many types, and are very meaningful, so the dragon patterns are very valuable.Current jewelry industry, most domestic jewelry brands borrow foreign design and styles, and there are few brands with local ethnical elements. Ethnical elements are not outstanding, and Miao’s traditional dragon pattern is facing an inheritance issue. The mysterious and decorative dragon patterns are disappearing, so from the jewelry design point of view, we need to find the integrating point of Miao dragon pattern and modern jewelry designing, and find the new path for jewelry designs.Overall, combination of traditional ethnical patterns and modern jewelry design will very much enrich modern jewelry design themes, and traditional patterns can also shine their uniqueness in modern jewelry. It will be paid much more attention to bypeople and as a traditional element, it will become the media for fashion development.