Techniques for forging Miao silver jewelry and its inheritor Long Migu
2022-06-02
Techniques for forging the Miao silver jewelry are unique to the Miao people, and all accessories of the Miao silver jewelry are made and forged by hand. With elaborate designs of craftsmen, the whole making process of the silver jewelry involves 30 procedures which require superb craftsmanship.
Accessories and ornaments of the Miao silver jewelry have undergone several evolution stages, from primitive accessories to rock and shell accessories, and from plants and flowers ornaments to gold and silver ornaments. The Miao people have been renovating their designs of silver jewelry which is regarded as one of the symbols of social evolution of the Miao ethnic minority.
With rich cultural connotations, the silver jewelry is often presented as gift for friends by the Miao people in foreign exchanges. The techniques for forging silver jewelry show that the Miao people are smart, clever, kind-hearted and friendly.
Long Migu is an inheritor of the fourth generation of techniques for forging the Miao silver jewelry. With great craftsmanship and creativity, Long has used pure silver as main material to make tens of thousand of works, which are derived from the shapes of animals and plants in the countryside with distinctive characteristics of the Miao ethnic group.
