Many years ago, I read Zhang Ailing's essay "Love", which described a girl who heard the lifelong sentence "Oh, are you here too?" At the time, I was wearing a moon-white shirt. At that time, I felt so chic, especially wanted to see what kind of white the moon white is, until I read "Chinese Traditional Color (Youth Edition)", I knew that the moon white is not white, but the very shallow and very light blue reflected by the moonlight.
Later, when reading "Dream of the Red Chamber", Jia Mu asked Lin Daiyu to change the window screen to introduce the color of soft smoke: "The same rain over azure, the same autumn fragrance color...", and began to wonder, is the rain over azure like the kind of breathtaking blue that the sky has just been washed? What color is Autumn Fragrance? It must be light and warm, right?
And when I read "purple smoke from the incense burner in the sunshine" and "smoke waves condense and the mountains are purple", I think even more: purple smoke, purple mountains, what a wonderful sight it should be!
Has always been yearning for ancient color nouns, so the book "Chinese Traditional Colors (Youth Edition)" is a sight to fall in love, I think even the cover is very good, different geometric color blocks are put together, bright and moving, a closer look at there are 3 hollow circles, revealing the traditional pattern of the same color on the bottom page, a kind of exquisite harmony that cannot be said, and then look at the color names displayed in a few small characters: Rouge Water, Oriental Both White, Dan Dan, Stealing Blue... It's really charming.
First, behind the vast color name, there is the rich and delicate emotions of the ancients.
Looking closely at the traditional Chinese colors, the first feeling is rich and delicate, and the subdivisions under each hue are too numerous to be added, and the beauty of its name is even more amazing:
Blue has stealing blue, soft blue, pine blue, oriental white, pin moon...
Red has Wei Hong, Dan Dan, Zhu Yan, Yin Zhu, Cochineal Worm, Tooth Silk...
Yellow is more: yellow and white tour, pine flower, reed leaf, yellow oriole stay, gardenia, female yellow, tender goose yellow, autumn fragrance, bow coat, turmeric, half see, bright yellow, apricot yellow...
The color names are colorful and romantic, simply enjoying a large-scale aesthetic feast, which makes people intuitively feel the richness of the ancient vocabulary and the delicacy of emotion.
From the names of these colors, we can feel that our ancestors were not perfunctory in life, as long as they experienced a new visual feeling, they would never be generalized by red, yellow, blue and green, but must find an appropriate word to describe this uniqueness.
And you will find that after they call, the color also has a human touch, for example, there is a light red called Fürken red, which means not to be red, this name makes people feel as if the color itself does not want to become red, is it interesting?
There is also a color called Obi, which comes from the green peony grown by a European family in the Northern Song Dynasty. As early as the Tang Dynasty, peonies are officials and literati scramble to chase the elegant things, a wide variety, fresh flowers, but there has never been a green peony before, this Ou surname people tried to bury the drug in the root of the white peony, the next year opened a light blue peony, the rarity is expensive, caused a huge sensation, since then the color of this peony was named Obi.
Similarly, Wei Hong and Yao Huang are named after the families of the people who grow unique peonies, and they have become the corresponding colors of peonies.
The stories behind these make people feel that the colors in front of them are very warm.
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Second, the beauty of traditional colors lies in the picture sense of harmonious coexistence between man and heaven and earth.
The beauty of traditional colors, the beauty lies in the sense of picture. Hai Tianxia, Tianshui Bi, Mi Tangjiao, Green Cloud, Yellow River Glass... As soon as you see these words, what appears in front of you is not just a color card, but a picture of people living in harmony with heaven and earth, quiet and natural, and is full of life aesthetics.
The names of these colors contain the ancients' passion for nature and their strong wisdom of life. Many color names are related to plants, such as cherry blossoms, hibiscus, hibiscus, magnolia, leaves... Perhaps this is because flowers and trees are more common in life, or it may be because the ancient source of dyeing was mainly plants.
Not to mention a long time ago, even decades ago, blue cloth clothes are also the most common worn by ordinary people, because there are a variety of easily available bluegrasses that can be used as natural dyeing raw materials, such as horse blue, wood blue, indigo blue, and pine blue.
Seeing the dyeing of plants, I remembered the past of dyeing nails with nail grass when I was a child, I picked the flowers of nail grass, added alum mash, put it on the nail cover, wrapped it tightly with the large leaves of sunflowers, and when I slept, I could see the beautiful orange-red nails. Now that I think about it, it is also a very good memory.
In addition to plant dyeing, there are also pigments extracted from ore, such as stone blue and stone green extracted from azurite and malachite, and group blue from lapis lazuli, which are super beautiful and precious pigments.
There are also very small amounts of animal staining, such as cochineal color, which is extracted by the female cochineal worms that parasitize cacti and are dried and processed.
But no matter which way to get the color, the ancients showed a strong sense of cherishing, in fact, it is the respect and cherishing of natural things.
Third, the traditional Chinese color is not only color, but also permeates a rich culture.
Understanding traditional Chinese colors is not only to recognize more colors and enrich aesthetics, but also to permeate a strong traditional culture behind the colors.
There are three primary colors of red, yellow and blue in modern art, in fact, there are five positive colors in the traditional Chinese colors: blue, red, yellow, white, and black, and the pheasant, which does not seem to be eye-catching, was highly valued in ancient China, because it just happened to have the traditional five positive colors on it.
The five positive colors correspond to the five constants, and the green, red, yellow, white, and black represent benevolence, righteousness, and wisdom in turn, and only by abiding by these five moral principles can you become a gentleman.
The five positive colors also correspond to the five elements, white, blue, black, red, and yellow represent gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as directions and seasons.
The fusion of the five positive colors produces five colors: the addition of green and yellow becomes green, green and white become blue, red and white become red, red and black become purple, and yellow and black become flowing yellow.
In addition, in ancient times, the color also had a class, Jiangzhou Sima Qing shirt wet, not because on the day of encountering the pipa woman, Sima BaiJuyi just wore a green shirt, but in the Tang Dynasty's clothing system: three or more purple, four products deep silk, five products light green, six products dark green, seven products light green, eight products dark green, nine products light green.
In the Qing Dynasty, apricot yellow could only be worn by the prince, and bright yellow was the exclusive color of the emperor.
Knowing these things, there is also an extra key to open the door of traditional culture.
In addition, the traditional Chinese colors also shine with a large number of ancient poems, full of poetic feelings, whether it is Xuanzang's "water color waves, waves and sweat" seen by Xuanzang on the way to the scriptures, or "green ant new wine, red clay small stove" when Bai Juyi invited friends, all of which give the color a unique cultural connotation. Our classical poetry has never lacked the blessing of color.
Our traditional colors are not only the long and indifferent of the book ink danqing, but also the bright colors of yellow oriole, rouge water, ultramarine, and hanhai, which are bright and beautiful, flexible and gentle. If you want to wander with your children in the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, you may wish to take a look at the Chinese traditional color aesthetic enlightenment reading book "Chinese Traditional Colors (Youth Edition)", cultivate aesthetics at the same time, let children feel the nourishment of traditional Chinese culture.
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