As we all know, Chinese knot is a kind of special and beautiful handmade handicraft of China, and the style and taste as well as the wisdom which are shown from its body are also exactly one side face of Chinese ancient civilization. Besides, Chinese knot is originally the old custom and object which was used to be tied the knots by people in Chinese ancient times in order to remember something significant and grand. As time went by, Chinese knot also appeared in the memorial ceremonies in Han dynasty and then it was promoted and developed into the adornment craftsmanship at present, and Chinese knot possesses not only beautiful outer shapes and styles, but also it owns colorful colors of knitting ropes, and if it is matched with Chinese font, any of Chinese knot represents the deep and fierce as well as happy congratulation, which makes it become the best handicraft which can convey the praise and sincere prayer and wish in China. Thus, let’s learn something important about the brief developed history of Chinese knot as follows.
In the first stage, Chinese knot was the basic and original format of Chinese font. Furthermore, this important phenomenon can be easily discovered in Chinese historic data and documents, such as the Yi-series poems and ZhouYi, and we can also clearly know that Chinese knot was used to remember these important matters in Chinese ancient times, which can also be regarded as the original format of Chinese font.
In the second stage, Chinese knot was regarded as a kind of decoration on the daily clothes which people wear, and there were no buttons on the earliest clothes in Chinese ancient times. If people would like to tie their clothes tightly, they can only knit a knot on their clothes. As we all know, Chinese people always like to wear the jades on their clothes, so they usually used the ropes to pass through little holes on the jades and then tie and wear them on their clothes.
In the third stage, Chinese knot has already been well developed and also reached to its peak and prosperous skills and time in the Qing dynasty, and Chinese knot at that time also had all kinds of types and species as well as knitting methods, and the name of it was also very various and different from each other, and people at that time usually regarded Chinese knot as elegant and beautiful daily decoration even regarded them as the artwork.
In the fourth stage, too many foreign cultures including the science and technology always existed in China, which made the original society status and lifestyle as well as the production way change a lot. In the meantime, some traditional cultures and skills which needed more time to be made and also fell into oblivion as time went by, such as the knitting methods of Chinese knot. However, with Chinese science and technology developing as well as the gradually improved sturdiness of modern ropes, Chinese knot also survives once again because these kinds of new materials of ropes which are used to knit Chinese knot can be reserved for a very long time.
In addition, we really hope that all the important information mentioned above can be useful and helpful to all of you.