Silver jewelry craftsmanship is a treasure passed down from generation to generation by the Yi people. Due to the influence of traditional farming civilization and the limitations of production conditions for thousands of years, the Yi people have a special liking for silver jewelry. The Yi proverb says: "Silver ingots are heavy, so they are worth the price; girls are as stable as mountains, so they are worth the price." Since ancient times, the Yi people have regarded silver jewelry as a spiritual quality of whiteness, loveliness, purity, flawlessness, and toughness. Therefore, the inheritance of silver jewelry craftsmanship is also relatively long. [Distribution area] Butuo silver jewelry is distributed in 5 areas, 30 towns, 190 administrative villages, and 1,010 villagers' groups in the county. Especially Tuojue and Temuli Town in Butuo County are particularly prominent. [Basic content] Yi silver jewelry can be divided into three categories: accessories, wine utensils, and tableware. Silver accessories include silver feather clothes, silver flower hats, silver phoenix crowns, silver bamboo hats, silver combs, silver earrings, silver clothing pieces, silver clothing bubbles, silver bells, silver bracelets, silver rings, silver buckles, silver breastplates, silver collar tags, silver ear chains, silver ear ornaments, silver pipes, silver scabbards, silver sword sheaths, silver saddles, etc.; wine utensils include silver wine cups, silver sparrow wine pots, silver wine plates, etc.; tableware includes silver bowls, silver chopsticks, silver plates, silver ladle, etc. Its forms are diverse and varied, and it is really exquisite and beautiful, and colorful. The Yi ethnic group's silver jewelry hand-made craftsmanship is exquisite and skilled, with more than 20 processes, forming a complete set of process flows such as casting, blowing, forging, welding, knitting, washing, carving, inlaying, and hanging. The first is casting, that is, putting the silver material in the "silver nest" (crucible), putting the crucible on the furnace, covering it all with charcoal, and using bellows to blow air to increase the temperature. After all the silver material is melted into liquid, pour it into the card-shaped bran trough. After about half an hour, the silver material solidifies, and then it is taken out and hammered while hot. Hammering is to hammer the hot silver into a square long strip first. If you need to make silver sheets, spread it wide. If you need to make silver wire, hammer it into a thin round strip, and then use a wire eye plate to draw the wire. Yi silver jewelry is mostly composed of square strips, round strips, sheets and thin wires. Square strips and round strips are rough and simple in craftsmanship, and are mostly made by hammering. Sheets are more delicate and require higher craftsmanship, which takes more time. First, hammer the silver bar into a large thin sheet, then cut it into small pieces as needed, put it in a mold to press into a pattern outline, and then stick it on the resin board to chisel into a delicate pattern. The production of silver wire is more complicated and can be divided into two types: thick and thin. Yi artists have mastered the skill of drawing silk. They use a special silk eye plate with different eye holes of different sizes, such as thick, thin, square and round. They can draw thick wires with a diameter of 4 mm, or thin wires like electro-optical wires. This wire drawing process is comparable to the famous Chengdu wire drawing process in China. The process of synthesizing various components is the braiding process. The braiding process is supplemented by the use of welding and other processes to fix different components together. Finally, the whole piece of jewelry is washed in a special solution to remove stains, or the old silver jewelry is washed in the solution to make it shiny and dazzling. This is the last process. In the past, silversmiths were all done manually by male craftsmen in family workshops. Most family workshops are father-son combinations that are passed down from master to apprentice, and there are also husband-wife combinations. These workshops often close the furnace during the busy farming season and operate hammers during the slack farming season, and they are all inseparable from farming activities. With the deepening of reform and opening up and the rise of commodity economy, the Yi silversmiths in Liangshan have developed from the past form of processing silver jewelry at home and serving relatively closed and fixed villages or several villages to today's open business model that has gone beyond the family and village. At the same time, the rapid development of commodity economy and industrial civilization has challenged traditional handicrafts. In addition, most of the original artists are old, and the number of people who can truly inherit the craft of hand-forging silver jewelry is becoming increasingly scarce. In particular, traditional decorative techniques such as engraving, hollowing, and inlaying will face the danger of being replaced by modern assembly line technology. If effective measures are not taken to actively rescue and protect them, it is not impossible that they will be lost or even disappear. The related utensils for making Yi silver jewelry include: stove, bellows, crucible (commonly known as silver nest), hammer, ox horn hammer, anvil, garden wooden step, punch, engraving tool, wire drawing eye plate, copper pot, pliers, tweezers, oil lamp blowpipe, lead blank mold, rosin board, etc. Yi silver ornaments are found all over Liangshan, with Butuo County and Meigu County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, being the most representative. Butuo County is known as the "hometown of Yi silver ornaments". Yi women in Butuo County must wear expensive and numerous silver ornaments when they are dressed up. There are silver flower hats, silver phoenix crowns, silver earrings, silver ear chains, silver collar tags, silver shawls, silver chest tags, silver clothing pieces, clothing bubbles, silver buttons, silver bells, silver bracelets and rings, etc. During grand festivals such as the Torch Festival, Yi girls wear silver ornaments on their heads, necks, chests and backs, and dance the ancient Duo Le He and Da Ti dances, with silver ornaments on their heads, necks, chests and backs, which are very interesting. The Yi village has become a world of silver and a sea of silver. On the wedding day, silver ornaments are indispensable decorations for the bride. A Yi woman in full dress can wear up to 20 to 30 kilograms of silver ornaments on her body. The Yi people's admiration for silver jewelry is aesthetic, to show wealth and ward off evil, and to symbolize wealth. Yi women adorn themselves with silver, loving its whiteness and cherishing its flawlessness. This has formed a unique silver jewelry culture. Yi silver jewelry not only has rich cultural connotations, but in foreign exchanges, the Yi people give silver jewelry as gifts to friends, which are as precious as the Tibetan Hada and the Han jewelry. [Basic characteristics] The Yi silver jewelry hand-made craftsmanship has a distinct national cultural tradition and unique aesthetic taste. The silverware made includes wine utensils, tableware, accessories, etc. Wine utensils include silver wine glasses and silver wine pots. Tableware includes silver bowls, silver chopsticks, silver plates, silver horse ladles, etc. There are many varieties of silver accessories, including silver earrings, silver bracelets, silver buttons, silver rings, silver hats, silver breastplates, silver collar ornaments, silver ear chains, silver ear ornaments, silver headdresses, etc. They are diverse in form and shape, and the techniques include intaglio, hollow inlay, and hanging ornaments. 【Basic Value】The reliance of agricultural civilization on traditional handicrafts has enabled the ancestors of the Yi people to master the superb silver jewelry craftsmanship. Yi silversmiths are not only experts in hammering and anvil work, but also masters in modeling design. They are good at drawing creative inspiration from women's embroidery and flowers, birds, grass and insects in nature, such as eagles, butterflies, dragons and phoenixes, the sun, the moon, stars, horns of cattle, horns of sheep, etc., and innovate in the depiction of details and parts according to traditional customs and aesthetic tastes. After the ingenious design and processing of silversmiths, it can be said that each piece is a unique and exquisite work. For example, silver saddles and silver feather clothes can even be called unique or unique products, with high collection value.