古代金饰记载缺佚,其发展状况实难廓清。经耙梳发掘出土金饰,不难发现金饰晚出,始于夏商,承传至清。各地金饰功能不同,其工艺、形式、风格异彩纷呈,独具一格而又互有联系、取长补短。从宏观层面以板块概全4000余年金饰文化的运动规律,先后出现了北方草原游牧部落金饰文化、黄河长江流域粟稻农作华夏族群金饰文化、西南高原红土带农牧群落金饰文化、中原帝王金饰文化等四大金饰文化板块,始终处于互为碰撞、交流、整合、承传、创新的运动过程之中,创造了金丝片、锤鍱、錾刻至焊金粟珠、编丝、掐丝、累丝、镶嵌以及错金银等金细工艺。这四大板块是由于环境、气候、产业、食物链的多样性等物质的、文化的客观条件决定的,同时又促成其局部范围金饰文化亚板块的形成与发展。4000余年的中国古代金饰文化发展变化无不受其板块运动的制约和推动。 Ancient gold records missing, its development difficult to clarify. Excavated by the rake comb excavated gold, it is not difficult to find gold ornaments late, began in the Xia Shang, inheritance to the Qing. Gold ornaments around the different functions, its technology, form, style colorful, unique and interrelated, learn from each other. From the macroscopic level, the plate is more than 4000 years of gold jewelry culture movement, there has been nomadic tribes gold jewelry culture in the northern grasslands, the Yellow River Yangtze River Valley millet rice Huaxia culture of ethnic groups, , The Central Plains emperors gold jewelry culture and other four gold ornaments culture plate, always in each collision, exchange, integration, inheritance, innovation in the process of movement, created a gold piece, hammer 鍱, 錾 engraved to the gold beads, compiled Silk, filigree, tired silk, inlaid and the wrong gold and silver and other fine gold craft. These four plates are determined by the material and cultural objective conditions such as environment, climate, industry and food chain diversity, and at the same time, promote the formation and development of the local gold culture subculture. More than 4,000 years of ancient Chinese gold jewelry culture development and changes are all subject to its plate movement constraints and promote.