Chinese colors
tradition
The ancients, who got pigments from ores and dyes from plants, wrote in the Book of Shang: "With the five mining to show the five colors, serve, Ruming." ”
Blue, red, yellow, white and black are the five "base colors" of Chinese culture, and various colors are exhibited from the five base colors.
The ancients were also extremely particular about and even picky about the naming of colors. From tooth white to sandalwood, from rouge to crow green, from concubine red to green bamboo... The words are poetic.
In the poet's pen, Chinese colors:
It is "bamboo moon flood cool shadow, xuan dew thicket";
It is "Dai Qing drawing eyebrows, gelatinous as snow skin";
It is "wine thirst rises at night, and the moon is green during the day";
It is "night rain dyed into the sky and blue water, and the morning sun lends out carmine";
It is also "the jade hairpin is lightly cut and broken, and the sandalwood is made into a snow moon";
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Chinese color grows in the soul of the Chinese people, it is thousands of poetry, beautiful beyond belief, it is a symbol of status, warm and noble.
Each traditional color is engraved with mellow history, layer by layer, carved into people's hearts.
51 of the traditional Chinese colors
Moon white color
Lu You's poem "Night Ki" mentions: "The wine is thirsty and the night is drawn, and the moon is green during the day." ”
When it comes to moon white, many people will think that it is white, but it is actually light blue.
Moon white, refers to the color of the moon, the ancients believe that the color of the moon is not pure white, but with a little light blue.
Moon white Taixi yarn regular robe, Qing Guangxu, length 138cm, sleeve length 188cm, cuff width 24.50cm, hem width 72cm, left and right hem 76cm. Collection of the Palace Museum.
Bamboo moon color
The gentle ziwei is straight, and the autumn meaning is endless.
Dripping Li Xian Ge leaked, solemn forbidden pool wind.
The bamboo moon is cool and cool, and the dew is thick.
When the embroidery lamp is deep, the evening cloud is the moon, the shadow in front of the window is bamboo, the cold moonlight reflects the bamboo fragrance, if there is a color, it is the deep bamboo moon, this unique blue.
Daisy
Wang Wei's poem "Cui Puyang Brother Ji Chongqian Shanxing" says: "Thousands of miles of horizontal color, several peaks out of the clouds." ”
The color is bluish black, and when we look at the mountain, we will see that the nearby mountain is green, and a little farther away it starts to turn blue.
If it's cloudy and the light is a little darker, the mountain in the distance is a bluish-black silhouette. This is the saying of "distant mountains like Dai".
Colour
"Old Age": Write poems in large characters to reward Su Zhi, and pour wine in small cups to make a face.
Tuó face: The color of blushing after drinking alcohol.
Vermilion
Vermilion, somewhere between red and orange. The purest cinnabar comes from China, so it is also known as Chinese red.
Vermilion was the right color in ancient times, the emperor used vermilion, the royal building also decorated the palace wall with scarlet, and the eunuchs or rich people often painted the gate vermilion, "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, the road has frozen bones" is derived from this.
In the Five Elements of Yin and Yang in the Han Dynasty, the vermilion symbolizes the Suzaku, the guide fang.
Sky water blue
The sky is blue, dyed with a river of autumn colors,
AoDai Snow Mountain Dragon stings, and the fast wind blows the sea.
A few drops of smoke, a red and wet,
The white bird is straight on the side of the sail, and the night flute is smelled across the river.
The sky is blue and light cyan. According to legend, it was infected by the concubines of Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The concubine of Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, once put the unstained silk veil in the open air for the night when dyeing, and the silk drapery changed because it was stained with dew, and it was dyed a very bright green.
Li Yu felt that this could not be given a general name. Since it is stained with water in the sky, it is called heaven and water.
Ouyang Xiu wrote in a sentence: "The night rain dyes the sky and the water blue."
In the "Night Feast", the two women in the center, the color of their clothes is Tianshui Bi.
Ten kinds of brocade
Why does the beauty sigh the marriage, the phoenix crown Xia Shuai ten kinds of brocade,
Without meeting the King, he was already destined for life.
Ten kinds of brocade is the name of a pink paper note. A poetic name, a beautiful color, has a lamentable story.
Xue Tao, a female poet of the Tang Dynasty who lived on the banks of Huanhua Creek, used grass and trees as materials to dye the paper into a wide range of colors, and raised small characters on it to send affection. Elegant letterhead soon became popular among dignitaries and dignitaries, and it became an honor to get Xue Tao's pink letterhead.
Color was poetic and amorous to the ancients.
In ancient poetry, literati and inkers use words as brushes to depict many gorgeous landscapes.
They write about the colors of mountains and forests, the colors of rivers, the colors of flowers and plants, the colors of heaven and earth, and the colors of hearts.
Everything in the world has colors, and Chinese the naming of colors also condenses thousands of poetry, which is incredibly beautiful.
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