During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were already products inlaid with filigree. By the Ming Dynasty, the gold crowns, phoenix crowns and all kinds of jewelry made by Beijing Banking Bureau had reached a high artistic level. Emperor Wanli's golden crown, woven by Ming artists with extremely fine gold thread, is 24 cm high, as thin as a veil, with even gaps. The top of the golden crown has dragon play beads, which is exquisite in shape and can be called a masterpiece of a generation.
By the Qing Dynasty, the filigree mosaic industry in Beijing had a finer division of labor. The whole industry is divided into 1 1 specialties, such as implementation, inlaying, chiseling, saving, blue burning, point carving, gold plating, electroplating, wire drawing and beading. The large-scale bonsai of "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", the large-scale hanging screen of "Hundred Birds in Cui Hua" and the silver-burned blue "Crane and Deer in Spring" displayed in the Jewelry Hall of the Forbidden City are all exquisite handicrafts of this period.
After the Opium War, a large number of gold and silver flowed out, and gold and silver technology stagnated. Especially when the Japanese invaded China, the filigree mosaic industry in old Beijing was in jeopardy. After the founding of New China, the government adopted a series of measures, such as low-interest loans, supply of raw materials, and centralized purchase and marketing, to organize production cooperatives, and the product types, expression methods and shapes developed rapidly.