Parrot green, green parrot
Li Li
The ancient Chinese people's attitude towards color is very picky, the taste is very fine, just take green as an example, it is divided into pale, green, willow, bean green, green, stone green, wormwood green, patina, emerald color, bamboo blue, emerald, parrot green... It can be found that the colors represented by these nouns are not simple green, they are close to life, vivid and vivid. Tonight I'm going to write about Parrot Green.
Parrots are very intelligent birds. One of the restaurants I like to go to has a parrot in front of the door, a snow-white macaw. Standing majestically on a horizontal branch, it greets guests at the door with great dignity, and this parrot has become the biggest highlight of the restaurant. Being able to hear the parrot greeting is a special benefit for every customer who dines here. Therefore, from time to time, the restaurant owner uses delicious tips to tip the little two with feathers. Parrots eat very interestingly, eating leaves is swallowed whole, eating apple cherry radish strips and the like, will be held with one paw, sent to the mouth to peck, the other paw on the crossbar golden rooster independent. It will also sniff melon seeds one by one, sniffing fast and flexible, when encountering difficult melon seeds, it will also use the hard mouth and dexterous tongue to cooperate, turn the melon seeds around the mouth, open both ends of the melon seeds, eat the melon seeds at the same time, almost every melon seed has left two melon seed skins intact, it also never throws melon seed skins, but piles the melon seeds together to form a small mound. I often went to that restaurant to visit the parrot. Every time I entered the door, I saw its beautiful figure, so Yuan Tingting stood on the treetops. A parrot without a trace of hair, noble and elegant, with a whole body as white as snow, a crooked mouth, will issue a "hello" greeting at any time.
However, sometimes I think that if it is a large green macaw, then the restaurant's welcoming reception has a strong visual impact. The Great Green Macaw is one of the most colorful and largest parrots, with a featherless face and stripes, a bit like the flower face in Peking Opera, which can turn red when excited. The body is mostly yellowish green , with a small patch of red feathers on the forehead , and the male has a bright blue distribution behind the head , and light blue coverts on the back and tail. When such a colorful parrot, the spirit of the spirit is now in front of you to make a loud cry, your eyes will be instantly illuminated by this dazzling color.
Parrot green is a bright yellow-green color, predominantly green, with a slightly bright yellow. Because of the yellow-green color like parrot feathers, it got its name. Most wild parrots live in dense forests, so the plumage is mostly green as a protective color. The most colorful and beautiful parrots live in the treetops of remote forests in tropical and subtropical regions. The beautiful green feathers blend in with their surroundings, providing them with great concealment. In ancient times, the southwestern clans and neighboring countries paid tribute to the rare birds of the Chinese dynasty, and the parrot, a wild bird dressed in beautiful feathers, came to the northern region, and they became the pets of the court of the past with their colorful feathers and the wisdom of being able to speak well, and the custom of raising parrots was also prevalent in the class of dignitaries and scholars, and pushed to the homes of the common people. Parrot green has lasted for a long time, has never been outdated due to the evolution of the times, and has always been one of the pleasing colors of the Han people. This color is gorgeous and saturated, is the color object of the old cloth color dyeing imitation, the ancients found that parrot green can be obtained after stacking yellow and blue dyes successively, in ancient times parrot green is a common color for folk men and women, but also the clothing of ancient soldiers and the color of the military generals' battle robes. The twenty-fourth time in the classical novel "Water Margin" writes that when Wu Song stepped on the snow and returned to Wu Dalang's house, he was wearing a cold parrot brother's green silk jacket. In addition, there is a monochrome glazed porcelain in Chinese porcelain, there is no blue and white contrast of blue and white, there is no intricate color of color porcelain, even if it is only pure and one color, it is not lost to "thick and light makeup". Monochrome glaze in the Song Dynasty into a period of vigorous development, the development of the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong three dynasties, monochrome glaze porcelain firing process is reached its peak period, the color is more rich and colorful, the development of a lot of previous generations have not had more than dozens of new glaze colors, one of which is imitation burned from parrot green, glaze soft and green, pure color, such as the spring in the green parrot singing, full of overflowing vitality.
In addition to the tiger hero Wu Song wearing a parrot green coat, I think the ancient literary figures who can best match the parrot green are Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber". Dai Yu's place is Xiao xiang guan, where "several trees are repaired, and there are thousands of poles of green bamboo shading", and the dense bamboo forest "phoenix tail forest, dragon yin delicate", hidden a curved bar, more secluded than other places. This bamboo is inseparable from Daiyu's emotions and contrasts with each other. When Dai Yu encountered a sad thought, there was no way to let go, and when Fang Slender sighed, the bamboo was "full of underground bamboo shadows", "the bamboo shadows outside the window reflected into the yarn", and the interior was also "cool and green, and a few shades were cold". In the swaying green shadow of this water, a little smart embellishment is needed - a parrot. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", a parrot appears for the thirty-fifth time, which is raised by Lin Daiyu, can speak, and can imitate Lin Daiyu's poetry. As soon as lin daiyu came, the parrot would pounce down from the porch and shout, "Snow goose, quickly lift the curtain, the girl is coming." He would also sigh a long time, as if Lin Daiyu Su Ri called out to the rhyme, and read it carefully: "Nong is laughing at this burial flower, who does he know when he buries Nong?" Try to see the spring flowers gradually falling, that is, when the red face dies. Once the spring is red and old, the flowers fall and the people die! "This parrot is so kind and clever, it can be seen that Dai Yu sent people under the fence in the Grand View Garden, there is no relief, idle and idle to tease the parrot brother to play, teach the poems that Su Ri likes to read to it, this bird is trained to be as full of spirituality and poetry as the master.
The original "Dream of the Red Chamber" did not mention the feather color of this parrot, and I felt for no reason that this parrot should be green. Since The tradition of Qu Zi's Yerba Buena beauty, the Chinese literati have used euphemisms to refer to themselves, and the secluded beauty in Du Fu's poems, who "has thin sleeves in the cold sky and leans on the bamboo at dusk", is only an external projection of the author's own noble and pure heart. What kind of person is Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber"? It can be said that this is a typical Example of a Chinese literati who is alluded to the female body. Her mentality, temperament, fun and talent all reflect the ideals of the literati. The Xiaoxiang Pavilion where she lives is elegant and quiet, the dust is not there, like a fairy dwelling place, the green bamboo sandwich road, the moss is covered, the pear blossom plantain, the flowing spring winds the steps, there is a nest of swallows on the beams, there is a parrot under the window of the moon cave, what a quiet and cold, windy and self-congratulatory. In terms of visual and aesthetic effects, the bamboo parrot language is known, there is movement in the quiet, is the most wonderful, a parrot to hide in the green Xiaoxiang Pavilion, its feathers should be like a bright green, its manners should be elegant and calm. If it is a noisy big red feather parrot, it always feels that it does not match the mountain-like Xiaoxiang Pavilion and the "Worldly Immortal Lonely Forest".
Dai Yu teaches parrots to learn poetry, what kind of picture is that? The so-called "moon cave window" is a large round window, outside the window to repair bamboo, thick green. Daiyu's usual day is often like this: "Sitting without anything to do, either frowning, or sighing, and the good manners don't know what to do, often they tear up and don't do it." She sat alone under the screen window, her clothes were plain, her expression was plain, the green parrot brother on the shelf, the posture was urgent, it was probing each other, the girl could not say the heart, even the parrot brother understood? Jia Fu has a lot of parrots, which is described in Lin Daiyu's first entry into the Grand View Circle, "on both sides of the mountain corridor box, hanging a variety of parrots". But the parrot raised by Dai Yu is different from other parrots, this is the green parrot domesticated by Dai Yu in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, this parrot is divine, it is as loud as Dai Yu, and even recites the extremely sad "Funeral Flower Yin", which has the heart of Daiyu's seven tricks.