Bracelets; Pray your Merry Christmas

First of all, it is the need for survival. In primitive society, in the process of fighting against nature, human beings often put animal skins, horns and other things on their heads, arms, wrists or feet in order to protect themselves and avoid the harm of beasts. It is to pretend to be the same kind of prey to confuse the other party. On the other hand, these animal skin horns are themselves a weapon of defense or attack. As for the small gravel, small animal bones or animal teeth hanging on the neck, waist or wrist, in addition to the earliest unconscious ornamental behavior of mankind, its real function is probably for the need of counting or remembering.

Second, it is a symbol of strength. In a very primitive society, it undoubtedly requires courage and strength to obtain food from nature and defeat ferocious beasts. In the eyes of primitive people, the sharp minions, hard bones and beautiful fur must have played an important role in the reason why the beast is full of power. Therefore, after capturing these beasts, human beings eat what they can eat, then wear their bones and teeth in strings and wear them on the body, thinking that by absorbing the power of the beasts, they can defeat the beasts with it. It seems that from these primitive jewelry, primitive people have got some kind of spiritual comfort and strength. On the other hand, the more a person wears this and "jewelry", the more likely he is to wear more and more expensive jewelry. In fact, these brave people often like to decorate their bodies with bright, eye-catching and easy-to-identify bodies, such as beautiful feathers, beast teeth, rare shells, and even the precious "beautiful stone" (jade) as symbolic signs. To show off and show off your strength and authority. Plekhanov said in "On Art": "These things were originally worn as signs of bravery, dexterity, and power, but later. It is precisely because they are signs of bravery, dexterity, and power that they began to arouse. The aesthetic feeling falls into the scope of decorations."

The third is a kind of totem worship. The sun, moon and stars, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, these are originally ordinary natural phenomena; but in the eyes of primitive people, these things have a certain magical power. Primitives get along with nature day and night, and depend on the sun, moon, stars, rivers, and flying beasts as companions. They worship these substances that nature has bestowed on them. Over time, this substance was deeply imprinted in their minds, becoming a totem with magical power. Those on the right regard it as their ancestor or protector, or they regard it as a blood relative of their clan or tribe and worship it. In the beginning, in order for these totems to protect themselves, human beings assimilated themselves into these totems. Slowly, people incorporated these totems into their jewelry, and made their jewelry into the image or shape of these totems, such as round bracelets and rings like the sun and full moon; bird-shaped crowns, hair bundles, etc. Wait.

Fourth, as a kind of amulet. Engels pointed out: "In ancient times, people were still completely ignorant of their body structure, and were affected by the dream scene, so they came up with a concept: their thinking and feeling are not their physical activity, but a unique , The activity in the soul that resides in this body and leaves the body at the time of death.” Primitives believe that everything has a soul, and the soul is divided into good and evil. It is the good spirit that brings happiness and joy to mankind. On the contrary, it It is evil spirits that bring disasters and diseases. In order to prevent the evil spirits from getting close to the body and to be protected by the good spirits, primitive people used ropes to wear shells, small gravels, feathers, animal teeth, leaves, and fruits on their bodies. They believed that these things had a kind of With supernatural power that is invisible to human eyes, people can be blessed with it, and evil will be driven away. These things, which played a role of reducing protection and exorcising evil spirits, were later on the human body in the shape of a certain ornament and became a special kind of jewelry. Moreover, this custom and meaning has been preserved, and jewelry has been given more beautiful sustenance and mystery by mankind.