Introduction and origin of bracelets

Bracelets are a type of jewelry worn on the wrist. They are mostly made of metals such as gold and silver, but also made of minerals and crystals.
Bracelets are chain-shaped and are mainly used to pray for peace, calm the mind and look beautiful.
Origin
First, it is for the need of survival. In primitive society, in the process of fighting against nature, in order to protect themselves and avoid the harm of wild beasts, humans often wear animal skins, horns and other things on their heads, arms, wrists or feet. On the one hand, they pretend to be the same kind of prey to confuse the other party, and on the other hand, these animal skins and horns themselves are a kind of defensive or offensive weapon. As for the small gravel, small animal bones or animal teeth hanging on the neck, waist or wrist, in addition to the earliest unconscious decorative behavior of humans, their real function is probably for the need of counting or recording.
Secondly, it is a symbol of strength. In the very simple primitive society, humans undoubtedly need courage and strength to ask for food from nature and defeat ferocious beasts. In the eyes of primitive people, the reason why wild beasts are full of power must be that their sharp claws, hard bones and beautiful furs must have played an important role. Therefore, after capturing these wild beasts, humans ate what they could eat, and strung their bones and teeth together and wore them on their bodies, thinking that this would absorb the power of the wild beasts and they could defeat the ferocious beasts with it. It seems that from these primitive jewelry, primitive people got some kind of spiritual comfort and strength.
On the other hand, the more such "jewelry" a person wears, the more likely he is to wear more and more expensive jewelry. In fact, these brave people often like to use some bright and eye-catching and easy-to-identify body decorations on their bodies, such as beautiful feathers, wild beast teeth, rare shells and even precious "beautiful stones" (jade) as symbolic signs to show and show off their power and authority. Plekhanov said in On Art: "These things were originally worn only as a sign of bravery, dexterity and strength. It was only later. It was precisely because they were signs of bravery, dexterity and strength that they began to arouse aesthetic feelings and were classified as decorations."
Third, it is a kind of totem worship. The sun, moon, stars, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, these are all ordinary natural phenomena; but in the eyes of primitive people, these things have some kind of magical power. Primitive people live with nature day and night, and depend on the sun, moon, stars, rivers and flying animals. They worship these materials given to them by nature. Over time, this material is deeply imprinted in their minds and becomes a totem with magical power. They regard it as their ancestor or patron god, or as a blood relative of their clan or tribe and worship it. At the beginning, in order to make these totems protect themselves, human beings assimilated themselves into these totems. Gradually, 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 and hair bundles, etc.
Fourth, as a talisman. Engels pointed out: "In ancient times, people did not know their body structure at all, and were influenced by the images in their dreams, so they had a concept: their thinking and feeling were not the activities of their bodies, but a unique activity of the soul that resided in this body and left the body at death." Primitive people believed that everything had a soul, and that souls were divided into good and evil. Good spirits brought happiness and joy to humans, while evil spirits brought disasters and diseases. In order to prevent evil spirits from getting close to them and to be protected by good spirits, primitive people used ropes to wear shells, small gravel, feathers, animal teeth, leaves and fruits on their bodies. They believed that these things had a supernatural power that was invisible to the human eye. With it, people could be blessed and evil would be driven away. These things that play the role of protection and exorcism were later worn on the human body in the form of some kind of ornaments, becoming a special kind of jewelry. Moreover, this custom and meaning have been preserved, and jewelry has been given more beautiful sustenance and mysterious colors by humans.