I'm afraid it's difficult to accurately verify when people wore jewelry. However, it is not difficult to imagine that since human beings began to realize the need to decorate and beautify themselves, human beings have also formed an indissoluble bond with it. The most primitive human jewelry can be traced back to the remote stone age from the collection of materials from the Paleolithic age and modern primitive tribes found in various parts of the world, we can find that the early primitive body ornaments mainly included: necklaces, waist ornaments, arm ornaments, wrist ornaments, headwear and so on, and among these forms, necklaces and waist ornaments were the main ones. To a large extent, they are decorated around the human reproductive area. The reason is that in addition to the ability of these parts to support the wearer, a large number of studies show that this choice has other purposes the colors and patterns on animals are also body ornaments. Natural body ornaments, male birds' headdresses, necklaces, chest ornaments, tail ornaments, etc. often change and display regularly in the breeding season, and these ornaments are quite effective in attracting the opposite sex. A large number of biological materials have confirmed that the beautiful ornaments of animals have great advantages in the process of sexual selection. Human body tattoo is a similar form of body decoration, and human body decoration is the extension and qualitative change of animal natural decoration the earliest human body ornaments found in the late Paleolithic period all over the world, whether animal teeth, feathers, or stone beads, have a very prominent feature: smooth, regular, small and beautiful. This feature further explains that body decoration is an important psychological motivation for dressing up, self display and attracting the opposite sex. Therefore, it is very scientific to consider the aesthetic feeling that body decoration originates from psychology and physiological instinct. The human body beautifying function derived from this origin is the most original and fundamental function of jewelry there are two other important motivations in the origin and development of jewelry, one is the religious function motivation, and the other is the social function motivation. Both of these motivations are based on the physiological instinct motivation and developed and evolved on this basis. Religion originated from the witchcraft of prehistoric human beings, and the religious motivation for the development of body decoration was gradually formed in the witchcraft activities of prehistoric human beings and under the guidance of this witchcraft thought and deeply rooted in people's minds. In the process of labor practice, primitive humans gradually developed a hazy and mysterious view of some materials in nature closely related to their lives, such as plant fruits, seeds, animal feathers, teeth, bones and stone (jade). They even regarded them as objects of worship in their witchcraft activities and endowed them with mysterious power for example, they hang the fruits or seeds of plants on the mother's body to pray for the reproduction of children; Wear and hang the fur, teeth and bones of hunting animals on their bodies to achieve the success of hunting and their own safety; The worship of stone (jade) materials is derived from the deep feelings of primitive people for stone tools. Among them, those with slight luster and bright colors are regarded as gifts given to them by some mysterious master in their minds. They collect and protect them carefully. In the process, they gradually enrich the connotation of this natural worship. The original enlightenment idea of Chinese jade culture is derived from this. In various cultures of the stone age in China, jade has always been regarded as a natural cult with rich spirituality and widely used in witchcraft ceremonies. It is also carried by prehistoric people. On the one hand, it is used as a decoration to beautify themselves, and on the other hand, it is used as a mascot to ward off evil and disasters and turn bad into good. In the ancient Western civilization, colored gemstones have been familiar for a long time, and they have also been endowed with some mysterious religious power in the process of being familiar with and using them. The ancient Babylonian state offered emeralds to the goddess 6000 years ago to pray for some mysterious power. Marine gemstones are regarded as the essence of sea water to pray for the safety of navigation or fishing
First, it is for the need of survival. In primitive society, in the process of fighting against nature, in order to protect ourselves and avoid the harm of beasts, humans often wore animal skins, horns and other things on their heads, arms, wrists or feet. On the one hand, they disguised themselves as the same kind of prey to confuse each other. On the other hand, these animal skins and horns are a weapon of defense or attack. As for the small gravel, small animal bone or animal tooth hanging on the neck, waist or wrist, in addition to the earliest unconscious decorative behavior of mankind, I'm afraid its real function is still for counting or recording secondly, it is a symbol of power. In the primitive society with very crude equipment, it undoubtedly required courage and strength for human beings to ask for food from nature and defeat fierce beasts. In the view of primitive people, the sharp claws and teeth, hard bones and beautiful fur must have played an important role in the strength of beasts. Therefore, after capturing these beasts, human beings eat what they can eat, and wear their bones and teeth on their bodies in strings, thinking that they have absorbed the strength of the beasts and can defeat the beasts with them. It seems that from these primitive jewelry, the primitive people got some spiritual comfort and strength on the other hand, the more a person wears such and "jewelry", the more likely he is to wear more and more valuable jewelry. In fact, these brave people often like to decorate their bodies with dazzling and easy to identify bodies, such as beautiful feathers, teeth of beasts, rare shells and even precious "beautiful stones" (jade) as symbolic signs to show and show off their strength and authority. Plekhanov said in "on art": "at first, these things were only worn as marks of bravery, dexterity and strength, but only later. It is precisely because they are marks of bravery, dexterity and strength that they began to cause aesthetic feelings and fall into the scope of decoration." thirdly, it is a kind of totem worship. The sun, moon, stars, rain, thunder and lightning are all common natural phenomena. But in the view of primitive people, these things all have some magical power. Primitive people lived with nature day and night, accompanied by the sun, moon, stars, river water and flying animals. They adored the materials that nature gave them to live. Over time, this material was deeply imprinted in their minds and became a totem with magical power. The Rightists regard it as their ancestors or protective gods; Or worship them as blood relatives of their own clan or tribe at the beginning, humans assimilated themselves into these totems in order to protect themselves. Slowly, people integrate these totems into their jewelry, and make their jewelry into the image or shape of these totems, such as round bracelets and rings like the sun and the full moon; A bird shaped crown, hair band, etc Fourth, as an amulet. Engels pointed out: "in ancient times, people did not know their body structure at all, and they were influenced by the scenes in their dreams. Thus, a concept came into being: their thoughts and feelings were not the activities of their bodies, but a unique activity in the soul that lived in this body and left the body when they died." Primitive people 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 is the evil spirit that brings disasters and diseases. In order to prevent those evil spirits from getting close and get the protection of good spirits, primitive people used ropes to wear shells, small gravel, feathers, animal teeth, leaves, fruits and other things on their bodies. They believed that these things had a kind of supernatural power invisible to human eyes. With them, people would be blessed and evil would be driven away. These things, which played the role of reducing protection and exorcising evil spirits, later appeared on the human body in the form of some kind of decoration and became a kind of special jewelry. Moreover, this custom and significance have been preserved, and jewelry has been endowed with more beautiful sustenance and mysterious colors by human beings.?
I'm afraid it's difficult to accurately verify when people wore jewelry. However, it is not difficult to imagine that since human beings began to realize the need to decorate and beautify themselves, human beings have also formed an indissoluble bond with it. The most primitive human jewelry can be traced back to the remote stone age
from the collection of materials from the Paleolithic age and modern primitive tribes found in various parts of the world, we can find that the early primitive body ornaments mainly included: necklaces, waist ornaments, arm ornaments, wrist ornaments, headwear and so on, and among these forms, necklaces and waist ornaments were the main ones. To a large extent, they are decorated around the human reproductive area. The reason is that in addition to the ability of these parts to support the wearer, a large number of studies show that this choice has other purposes
the colors and patterns on animals are also body ornaments. Natural body ornaments, male birds' headdresses, necklaces, chest ornaments, tail ornaments, etc. often change and display regularly in the breeding season, and these ornaments are quite effective in attracting the opposite sex. A large number of biological materials have confirmed that the beautiful ornaments of animals have great advantages in the process of sexual selection. Human body tattoo is a similar form of body decoration, and human body decoration is the extension and qualitative change of animal natural decoration
the earliest human body ornaments found in the late Paleolithic period all over the world, whether animal teeth, feathers, or stone beads, have a very prominent feature: smooth, regular, small and beautiful. This feature further explains that body decoration is an important psychological motivation for dressing up, self display and attracting the opposite sex. Therefore, it is very scientific to consider the aesthetic feeling that body decoration originates from psychology and physiological instinct. The human body beautifying function derived from this origin is the most original and fundamental function of jewelry
there are two other important motivations in the origin and development of jewelry, one is the religious function motivation, and the other is the social function motivation. Both of these motivations are based on the physiological instinct motivation and developed and evolved on this basis. Religion originated from the witchcraft of prehistoric human beings, and the religious motivation for the development of body decoration was gradually formed in the witchcraft activities of prehistoric human beings and under the guidance of this witchcraft thought and deeply rooted in people's minds. In the process of labor practice, primitive humans gradually developed a hazy and mysterious view of some materials in nature closely related to their lives, such as plant fruits, seeds, animal feathers, teeth, bones and stone (jade). They even regarded them as objects of worship in their witchcraft activities and endowed them with mysterious power
for example, they hang the fruits or seeds of plants on the mother's body to pray for the reproduction of children; Wear and hang the fur, teeth and bones of hunting animals on their bodies to achieve the success of hunting and their own safety; The worship of stone (jade) materials is derived from the deep feelings of primitive people for stone tools. Among them, those with slight luster and bright colors are regarded as gifts given to them by some mysterious master in their minds. They collect and protect them carefully. In the process, they gradually enrich the connotation of this natural worship. The original enlightenment idea of Chinese jade culture is derived from this. In various cultures of the stone age in China, jade has always been regarded as a natural cult with rich spirituality and widely used in witchcraft ceremonies. It is also carried by prehistoric people. On the one hand, it is used as a decoration to beautify themselves, and on the other hand, it is used as a mascot to ward off evil and disasters and turn bad into good. In the ancient Western civilization, colored gemstones have been familiar for a long time, and they have also been endowed with some mysterious religious power in the process of being familiar with and using them. The ancient Babylonian state offered emeralds to the goddess 6000 years ago to pray for some mysterious power. Marine gemstones are regarded as the essence of sea water to pray for the safety of navigation or fishing
First, it is for the need of survival. In primitive society, in the process of fighting against nature, in order to protect ourselves and avoid the harm of beasts, humans often wore animal skins, horns and other things on their heads, arms, wrists or feet. On the one hand, they disguised themselves as the same kind of prey to confuse each other. On the other hand, these animal skins and horns are a weapon of defense or attack. As for the small gravel, small animal bone or animal tooth hanging on the neck, waist or wrist, in addition to the earliest unconscious decorative behavior of mankind, I'm afraid its real function is still for counting or recording
secondly, it is a symbol of power. In the primitive society with very crude equipment, it undoubtedly required courage and strength for human beings to ask for food from nature and defeat fierce beasts. In the view of primitive people, the sharp claws and teeth, hard bones and beautiful fur must have played an important role in the strength of beasts. Therefore, after capturing these beasts, human beings eat what they can eat, and wear their bones and teeth on their bodies in strings, thinking that they have absorbed the strength of the beasts and can defeat the beasts with them. It seems that from these primitive jewelry, the primitive people got some spiritual comfort and strength
on the other hand, the more a person wears such and "jewelry", the more likely he is to wear more and more valuable jewelry. In fact, these brave people often like to decorate their bodies with dazzling and easy to identify bodies, such as beautiful feathers, teeth of beasts, rare shells and even precious "beautiful stones" (jade) as symbolic signs to show and show off their strength and authority. Plekhanov said in "on art": "at first, these things were only worn as marks of bravery, dexterity and strength, but only later. It is precisely because they are marks of bravery, dexterity and strength that they began to cause aesthetic feelings and fall into the scope of decoration."
thirdly, it is a kind of totem worship. The sun, moon, stars, rain, thunder and lightning are all common natural phenomena. But in the view of primitive people, these things all have some magical power. Primitive people lived with nature day and night, accompanied by the sun, moon, stars, river water and flying animals. They adored the materials that nature gave them to live. Over time, this material was deeply imprinted in their minds and became a totem with magical power. The Rightists regard it as their ancestors or protective gods; Or worship them as blood relatives of their own clan or tribe
at the beginning, humans assimilated themselves into these totems in order to protect themselves. Slowly, people integrate these totems into their jewelry, and make their jewelry into the image or shape of these totems, such as round bracelets and rings like the sun and the full moon; A bird shaped crown, hair band, etc
Fourth, as an amulet. Engels pointed out: "in ancient times, people did not know their body structure at all, and they were influenced by the scenes in their dreams. Thus, a concept came into being: their thoughts and feelings were not the activities of their bodies, but a unique activity in the soul that lived in this body and left the body when they died." Primitive people 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 is the evil spirit that brings disasters and diseases. In order to prevent those evil spirits from getting close and get the protection of good spirits, primitive people used ropes to wear shells, small gravel, feathers, animal teeth, leaves, fruits and other things on their bodies. They believed that these things had a kind of supernatural power invisible to human eyes. With them, people would be blessed and evil would be driven away. These things, which played the role of reducing protection and exorcising evil spirits, later appeared on the human body in the form of some kind of decoration and became a kind of special jewelry. Moreover, this custom and significance have been preserved, and jewelry has been endowed with more beautiful sustenance and mysterious colors by human beings.?