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"If faith has color, it is Chinese red"
Chinese Red
A "taste" of the New Year that Chinese lasting nostalgia
What the design community calls "Chinese red"
The color value is "C0 M100 Y100K0"
Derived from the name of a ceramic product in the Ming Dynasty
Today, "Chinese red" has surpassed the limits of color
It became a symbolic symbol
The red and yellow of the flag are embedded
In Chinese's opinion
It is a perfect match for color
Emotional warmth of belonging
Every Lunar New Year, China will be full of dragons and phoenixes everywhere - Chixian Shenzhou Dragon and Phoenix Dance, the motherland's mountains and rivers are a red weather. Red in fiery, full-bodied hues renders the arrival of a season.
Red firecrackers, red spring leagues, red window flowers, red lanterns, red costumes, red head ropes, red scarves, red belly pockets, red hijabs, red cotton jackets, red belts....., urban and rural alleys, covered with red color, covered with red clouds! No red is not a red county day.
The series of films directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum, Red Dyeing Workshop and Red Lantern, are all renderings of China's red sentiments.
In 1672, Newton discovered that sunlight refracted through small holes in the prism, separating seven different colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and red was the spectral color with the longest wavelength, revealing for the first time the scientific nature of red.
Red is red, red is red. Among the seven colors of red orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple, red is the background color of the Chinese nation, and is proudly called "Chinese red" by the Chinese people. Chinese red, a distinct visual symbol, a symbol of national vitality and vitality.
Red terraces deep in the Ailao Mountains of the Red River in Yunnan
The theory of Chixian Shenzhou is common in ancient books.
"The Chinese name is Chi County Shenzhou." (Biography of Mencius)
"Therefore, Zouzi thought that Chi County, Yu Uchichi was one of the ears of Kyushu." (Southern Dynasty Liang Shen Covenant, "Reply to Tao Huayang")
The Qi people Zou Yan (驺延), as early as the Warring States period, founded the "Five Elements Theory", "Five Virtues Finally Speaking", and "Great Kyushu Theory", which had a profound impact on Chinese history, called "China's name is Chi County Shenzhou". Since then, China has had another elegant name: "Chixian Shenzhou".
Kong Ming lamp
The name of Chi County began with Zou Yan and originated from Emperor Yan. According to legend, the area under the rule of the Yan Emperor was called Chi County, and the territory ruled by the Yellow Emperor was called Shenzhou.
Emperor Yan was good at taking fire, changing fire, storing fire, and using fire, so he was called the God of Fire and the Red Emperor with the "virtue" of fire. According to the "Yan" character of "from the heavy fire", we can glimpse the name of the emperor.
Emperor Yan is also known as the Shennong clan. Wang Fu's "Theory of The Hidden Husband" said: "Shennong is the world number, and Emperor Yan is the body name." ”
Emperor Yan used fire widely in production and life. For example, it is necessary to burn wasteland by fire and invent fire cultivation; to cook with fire and popularize cooked food; to burn pottery metallurgy and use it for making utensils; to establish an official system by naming officials by fire. In particular, the time of fire (the time of the appearance of great Mars) is used to make a fire calendar, marking the height of civilization indoctrination.
In the seventh and eighth months of the lunar calendar, looking up to the southeast, not high above the horizon, there will be a red bright star in the night sky, which is the "heart of the two", which belongs to the heart of the twenty-eight houses, the second star in the seven houses of the oriental dragon, modern astronomy is called Scorpio α star (the main star of Scorpio). Ancient Chinese astrology called Asteris II a great fire, and Ancient Mars was a red giant star with a diameter of more than 700 times that of the Sun. The trajectory of Greater Mars is closely related to climate seasons. Mr. Pang Pu believes that before the sun and the yin as the timing of the stars, the ancient Chinese had a long time with the Great Mars (Heart Su 2) as the basis for production and life.
"Young Learning Qionglin": "The god of the south is Zhu Rong, who is high and Si Xia ,...... Its color is red, so the Xia Emperor is known as the Red Emperor. "Zhu Rong is a descendant of Emperor Yan, and the legend blesses the Heavenly Emperor in the south." The heat in the south belongs to fire, so it inherits the honorific title of Emperor Yan - Red Emperor and Fire God, which refers specifically to the Yandi Shennong clan and also refers to the Shennong clan of the past dynasties.
The Huainan Zi Shi Ze (淮南子時則) says: "The Red Emperor had fire virtue, was in charge of agricultural production and tinder, and was the Southern Heavenly Emperor. ”
The blessing of riding a dragon in Miao embroidery
赤, oracle bone writing (赤), composed of (大), (fire) huiyi synthesis. Jin Wen (赤) writes the oracle bone (fire) as (fire); the seal text (赤) writes the jin script (fire) as (fire); the Lishu (赤) mistakenly writes the seal book (large) as the seal book glyph. At this point, the "redness" in front of us has become a stereotype.
Glyph Evolution of Deficit (Edited by Li Xueqin: Etymology)
The province lacks the background of the Red Emperor and the Fire God as mentioned earlier, and the word Saint Xu Shen directly interprets it in a minimalist way: "Red, southern color also." From the big from the fire. ("Explanation of Words")
Ma Wang Heap painting Sun and God Bird
When Xu Shen said "South", he should refer to "Southern Heavenly Emperor". "Great", shaped like a righteous person, that is, the invention of the "fire calendar", the "adult" in charge of agriculture and fire, the Yan Emperor and his descendants Zhu Rong; "fire", that is, the celestial reference of the period of the great fire calendar - "Great Mars (Heart Su II)". (See "Traceability of the Thousand Characters| Chen")
On the lid of the lacquer box of the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, there is a mushroom-shaped "fire" character under the belly of the white tiger (the pen holder-shaped symbol in the middle of the figure), which is the same as the oracle bone "" (fire) (see "Chinese Character Epistemology | Degree").
Zenghou lacquer box is divided into two parts, the lid and the box body, which are made of a whole piece of wood. Height 40.5cm, length 71cm, width 47cm. It was excavated in Suizhou, Hubei Province in 1978 and is now in the collection of Hubei Provincial Museum. The most striking thing is that the lid of the box is painted with the "Twenty-Eight Stars Map", the earliest known complete star map in China.
From the perspective of the knot, the oracle bone (red) is a three-dimensional picture projected onto the two-dimensional plane presented by the heterogeneous view - (fire) and (large) composed of the upper and lower structures (, red), not on the same plane.
It can be seen that the "southern color" mentioned by Xu Shen refers to the fiery red color of the first-class bright star "Great Mars", and does not involve the origin of the glyph. The idea of "roasting people with fire" advocated by the philological circles seems incomprehensible and impossible to verify.
Fire worship ceremony, dance of fire
The ancient Greek astrology of Scorpius Scorpio α star (Chinese called fire) is located in the heart of Scorpio
After thousands of years of inheritance and evolution, the "fire calendar" was gradually replaced by the solar calendar and the yin-yang calendar, and the ancestors also transformed their reverence for the fire god and the red emperor into the worship of red.
Mythical story "Father By Day"
As a result, chi is abstracted from the red emperor idol and transformed into a fusion of natural elements with red hues such as the sun, blood, and fire.
Archaeology has found that ancient ancestors not only used red pigments to paint petroglyphs, but also popularized the custom of using hematite powder as decorative utensils. At the site of the Tao Temple culture, about 6,000 years ago, a written symbol (文) written in cinnabar was found on a clay pot. At the Yuyao Hemudu Cultural Site of the same period, red painted wooden bowls were found. About 4,000 years ago, at the Yanshi Erlitou site, not only jade and bronze were found wrapped in cinnabar powder, but also a place for storing cinnabar was found. It can be seen that the belief in reverence and worship of red has a long history in China.
Whether the sun is thin or the afterglow is not giving up, the sun is trying to bring light and warmth to the world, so the red color also symbolizes hope and vitality.
The reverence and worship of red continued from ancient times to the Zhou Dynasty, reaching its peak.
According to the "Lü Shi Chunqiu Ming Class", King Wen of Zhou "saw fire first in heaven, the Book of Chi Wu Guan Dan was collected in Zhou She, and King Wen was victorious in fire." Fire is victorious, so its color is still red, and its affairs are fire. Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty took the fire to "red", and the color of the clothes was red.
"The Zhou people are still red, and the big things are used by the sunrise, the affairs are multiplied, and the animals are used as horses." ("Li Ji Tan Bow")
"Wang Jifu has nine, 舄 (xì) has a third class, Akatsuki is the top, the crown is the top, the Crown Dress is the Spoon, Shiyun: Wang Xi Hanhou, Xuan Gong Chi Gang." ("Zhou Li And ren" Zheng Xuan's note)
The Zhou Dynasty's worship of the red roof reached an incomparable madness: the burial should be chosen in the early morning when the sun rises and the sky is full of red light, red horses should be used for war, and the crown dress should be worn with red pants and red shoes. Even the cattle and horses that sacrifice ancestors must be red.
"Depressed! I'm from Week. ”
Confucius, who longed for the Zhou Li, admired red so much that he even compared vermilion with gagaku and the state, believing that vermilion was the color of elegance and represented orthodoxy.
Mencius said: Confucius hates purple, but fears that it confuses red, just as confucius hates grain-like weeds, afraid that it confuses seedlings; hates rhetoric, fears that it disturbs justice; hates sharp teeth, fears that it confuses faithfulness.
The thought of Confucius Shangchi has boosted the popularity of red worship for two thousand years. Red is endowed with deeper cultural connotations such as sacredness, dignity, and nobility.
The Old Collection of Confucius and mingyan Dynasty costumes include ChiLuoyi, Chiluo clothing, Yuntou Shoes, and Liuliang Jinxian Crown, which is the old collection of Confucius House in Qufu, and is the only set of Ming Dynasty imperial costumes that have been handed down in the country today.
"Mysterious and mysterious, the door of all wonders."
Lao Tzu's "Xuan" is not a virtual illusion, nor is it a completely vulgarized "black" in this world, but it just happens to be a red flicker in the darkness, which is roughly equivalent to the saying "red is transparent purple" and "purple is transparent black".
In the Chinese color spectrum, the black and yang chi are "Xuan", the light red is "纁", and the two colors of "Xuan" symbolize heaven and earth respectively (quoted from the humble work "Chinese Character Zoo| Turtle (V)))." Zhu GanYuqi, Zhu Yong Biwa, Zhu Xuan Soap Cover, are all the favorite collocations of the ancients.
Thus, "chi" is transformed into "Xuan", and chi and Xuan shui merge, silently diving into the bottom of Chinese philosophy, constituting a "mysterious" realm that is difficult to reach without careful cultivation, and flashing a metaphysical spectrum outside the common faith. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, metaphysics once infiltrated the hearts of the magi, and also indulged their free will and temperament that blended into the landscape.
Ming Qiuying Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest
Chi is also the body color of the newborn baby, so it is called "naked son", which is extended to be pure and flawless, representing loyalty, innocence, and the righteousness of being bold and loyal.
Shangshu Kangchen: "If you protect the naked son, only the people are healthy." Kong Yingda Shuo: "The son is born red, so it is said that the child is red." ”
Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, declared himself the son of the Red Emperor, Liu Bang from Shangchi when he rebelled against Qin, to the early Han Dynasty to take water as a national virtue, then changed to Tude, and finally changed to fire virtue, experienced red (fire) - black (water) - yellow (earth) - red (fire), several changes of color, and finally red achieved orthodox status, red as a symbol of power was applied to the royal family on a large scale.
From the palaces and temples to the pavilions and pavilions, from the emperor's dragon robes to the royal jade seals, public opinion uniforms, flags, and red walls, all of them are respected by red, showing the royal dignity and style, so that it affects the color of the people and penetrates into people's daily lives.
【Tang】Yan Liben Part of the Imperial Chart of the Past Dynasties is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
【Tang】Zhou Fang Part of the picture of the lady of the hairpin flower is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum
"Li San Zheng Ji": "Xia Shanghei, Yin Shangbai, Zhou Shangchi, this is called the three unifications." "Black is water, white is gold, and red is fire."
According to Zouzi's yin and yang five elements of xiangke xiangsheng, aquatic gold, fire kejin, three generations change just tend to be attached to the laws of nature: from black (xia) white (shang) to red (zhou), and then to green and yellow, the generation of color contains the continuation and change of history and culture, reflecting the formation process of Chinese civilization.
History has color, especially the history of the three pre-Qin dynasties. The transformation of the color of history from pluralism to unity has been staged for thousands of years as nothing more than a cultural redshift phenomenon.
Red beans, red luck, red leaves, red dust, red threads, red faces, red pink, red makeup, red notes, red sleeves, red brides, red chambers... The romantic redshift of Chinese culture began in the Zhou Dynasty, and the "redshift" of language, Cao Xueqin is undoubtedly a benchmark.
The "History of Tianguan" says, "Han Zhixing, five stars gathered in Dongjing." In modern times, the red boats, the Red Army, the Red Guards, the red scarves, the red guns, the red-headed documents, the five-star red flag, the red spark, rose to the political level.
The red and yellow inlays on the national flag are, in the eyes of the Chinese, a perfect match in colorology and an emotional warm belonging.
In 2016, the dresses of the Chinese delegation to the Rio Olympic Games were divided into two styles: men's red coats, white shirts with floral ties, white trousers, and white shoes; women's styles were yellow coats, white shirts with floral scarves, white skirts, and white shoes.
Designer Ye Chaoying said that the reason for using red is because China has a tradition of celebrating red, and Chinese athletes often like to wear the national flag to celebrate after winning gold medals, so she hopes that this dress "makes the Chinese delegation players feel like they are wearing the national flag at the opening ceremony."
On August 6, 2016, the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics was held in Brazil. When the Chinese sports delegation entered, CCTV host Bai Yansong humorously used "egg scrambled tomatoes" to describe the Chinese delegation's admission dress. The Chinese sports delegation "Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes" wore the entrance costume of the three-time Olympic Games.
At the 2012 London Olympics, the red tops were made to conceal yellow in the red fabric through a precise digital color control system.
Since the 29th Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, the classic combination of "red and yellow matching" has continued. Men's yellow large pointed collar shirts and red coats are very distinctive.
Since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, "Chinese red" has become the main tone of the Olympic dress of the Chinese delegation. At the Athens Olympic Games, Yao Ming wore a red suit and held aloft the five-star red flag, leading the Chinese athletes to enter the scene, which became a classic scene in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games. This scene, when I saw it, I burst into tears, and I was excited when I thought about it.
Yi Xue believes that everything in the universe is evolved and generated according to the five elements of yin and yang of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. From the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, the "Five Elements" were also matched with the "Five Virtues", and it was popular to use five colors to represent the Five Elements Concept: gold is white, wood is green, water is black, fire is red, and earth is yellow; according to Zou Yan's theory of "five virtues always" and "Heavenly Dao Cycle", each dynasty has a corresponding color, and the five elements and five colors are born and reciprocate.
After the Zhou, Han, Sui, Tang (Wuzhou period), as well as the Song Ming and Xia Shang Zhou dynasties, all the dynasties established with the Han nationality as the main body used red as the national color. In other foreign dynasties, red and yellow were also inlaid as emperors. In this way, red contains the beautiful connotations of strength, hope, elegance, auspiciousness, and luxury.
Source: Professor Peng De of the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts According to the Western Han Dynasty Liu Xin's Three Unifications and Five Virtues Theory, etc., the phenomenon of "spectral redshift" (color revolution) in ancient history is presented. Quoted from THE COLOR CENTER OF BIFTC Beijing Institute of Fashion.
The wide red color spectrum can change into a rich layer of different shades.
Before the Middle Ages, red was divided into five levels according to different shades:
绛 (绛) is taken from silk dyeing, dark red, like the color of sunrise. "Sayings": "Dai, Daichiya." ”
Zhu, taken from plants, big red, such as the color of the sun, the positive color of ancient times. "Shuowen": "Zhu, Red Heart wood, pine cypress genus." ”
Red (绯), taken from the Great Mars, has a fiery red color.
Dan, taken from ore, the original meaning is "Tatsu sand, cinnabar", the color of Dan sand, lighter than red.
Red, taken from silk dyeing, is a pale reddish red. "Sayings": "Red, red and white also." ”
Madder is one of the materials of silk dyeing In the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, 4000-3500 years ago, woolen threads dyed with madder and wooden combs dyed with hematite were unearthed. The colors dyed with madder and safflower are dark red, light red, and orange red.
The Huashan Petroglyphs of Zuojiang, Guangxi, were listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site on July 15, 2016.
In all these cases, the degree of subdivision of the red spectrum shows the degree of obsession of the ancestors with red. Nowadays, people no longer indulge in delicate color spectrum red analysis, as long as it is a popular person or thing, they are full of joy when they see it. Red, which has long been integrated into the blood, is unforgettable.
The 29th Olympic Games micro "China's Indian and Dancing Beijing"
Chinese red, with two weeks of charm, absorbed the great Han style, gathered the Wei and Jin demeanor, continued the style of the Tang Dynasty, and flowed with the atmosphere of Song Ming.
Chinese red is a refraction of historical chromatography and a birthmark of national culture.
Chinese red, open door red
The big Chinese New Year's Eve, the red streams floating all over the street, come into view, sneak into the bottom of the heart, representing our expectations, but also representing a wish for this article: the opening is red, the red fire is too big.