The Chinese knot is the same as the Chinese painting and calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, food and can be recognized easily by the foreigners as well as is a representative of the Han nationality. Today let me keep you informed of the developed history of Chinese knot.
As early as the late paleolithic, there was the spicule and people guess that there was also the rope line. Therefore, people can infer that the simple knotting and sewing technology have been developed at that time.
According to the historical record from the warring states period, people can find that the digit symbols on the bronze ware contained the shape of knotting. So this kind of the knot was exactly used to be as the tool for making a record and can be referred to as the precursor of the words.
Besides, we can also find out the secrets of knotting from the habit of wearing. As for the clothing, it did not have the buttons, zippers and so on accessories and people could only use the method of knotting to fasten their clothes. As for the jade pendant, people always liked to wear jade pendant and the knot was needed at that time so as to have these jade pendants tied on their clothes. Furthermore, people needed to use the knot to tie a complete set of jade pendant as well and loved to use weigela florida to weave the knot with a type of serial palindrome to express their emotion of love as well as we called it the true love knot.
Moreover, we can see the bowknot designed on the waistband of beautiful women painted on the traditional Chinese painting by Gu Kaizhi, the greatest painter of eastern Jin dynasty. In addition, we can also see this kind of the bowknot from the mural of yongtai’s tomb of the princess of Tang dynasty. In the Qing dynasty, the knot has been developed very fast and can be as a kind of art as well as was widely used in daily life.
With the fast improvement of people’s life level, these new manufacturing materials for making the Chinese knot have occurred continuously and can be preserved for a long time. As the popularity of network, these special sites for discussing the Chinese knot have been built up and will organize regular discussion party. Thus, the ancient Chinese knot art will come to a new period of development.