The Forbidden City hides the moon white Tessai yarn regular robe
Part of the "Picture of the Lady of the Hairpin Flower" collected by the Liaoning Provincial Museum The lady in the picture is wearing a pomegranate skirt popular in the Tang Dynasty ◎ Chang Xiaoxian
"Moon white" is not white? "Snow green" has nothing to do with snow? In traditional Chinese culture, the name of color has a mysterious meaning, encompassing natural world and poetry. unbelief? Come in and see how much you know.
Moon white is not white
It's a slightly whitish blue
In Chinese mind, white is a color of ice and jade. Therefore, "plain clothes" (white clothes) often represent noble and pure virtues, and "silk clothes" (black clothes) represent the staining of virtue. "Jingluo is full of wind and dust, and the plain clothes are turned into silk", a lament for moral degeneration; "the plain clothes do not rise from the wind and dust, and the qingming can go home", which is the opposite meaning.
Men and women dressed in white are often the objects of people's admiration. In the "Book of Poetry, Zheng Feng, Out of its East Gate", there are sentences such as "Silk (white clothing) silk scarf (green scarf), talk about my staff" and "silk robe Ru Wei (red scarf), talk about entertainment", which is a man's love for his white-clothed girlfriend. "Poetry Classic, Cao Feng, Ephemera" also has the sentence "Ephemera digging and reading, linen clothes like snow", the surface lament is that the ephemeral insect life is short, the inner expression is the sense of crisis of the scholar in snow white linen clothes, translated into today's words, probably: The era of white fluttering is gone forever!
There are many kinds of "white", the white of flowers, the white of the moon, in the eyes of the ancients, all have a poetic meaning. "Pear blossoms bloom a tree white", it is said that Li Bai wrote a poem when he was seven years old, and has begun to show its glory. Wen Tingjun's "Mangong Mingyue Pear Blossom White" has caused controversy among the more authentic people: "The pear blossom is originally white, what is it for?" ”
In Bai Juyi's "Pipa Line", the white of the moon is "the east ship and the west ship are silent, only to see the autumn moon white in Jiangxin", which is the aftersound of the beautiful pipa sound; and in Ouyang Xiu's "Picking Mulberries", it is "ten years ago, it was a former guest, the moon was white and the wind was clear, the troubles withered, and the speed of aging was frightening", which was the whistling sound of the passage of time. Although the ancients had the color name of "moon white", the moon white is actually not white, but a slightly white blue. One of the Royal Costumes of the Qing Dynasty treasured in the Palace Museum is accompanied by a label, "Moon White", which is this light blue.
Snow cyan actually is
A cold purple-red color
In traditional culture, "green" and "blue" can be said to be the most connotative colors. "Blue" often represents different colors in different contexts. In the rainbow 'red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, purple' color, it is the color between green and blue; in "blue out of blue is better than blue", it is the indigo blue between blue and purple; in "Toward the Green Silk Twilight Snow", it represents black; and in "Green River Grass", it represents green.
The derivative color of cyan, azure, is a slightly mysterious color. It is said that during the Five Dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, Chai Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty ordered people to burn a batch of porcelain. The official in charge of the matter asked the emperor for instructions on what color to burn, and Chai Shizong replied: "When the rain passes through the sky and the clouds break, such a color will do the future" - imitating the color of the rain over the azure blue, the porcelain was made, so that the future generations had Ru kiln porcelain that was as green as water. There is also a theory that azure was named after Emperor Huizong of Song.
The color of this "rain over azure blue", I don't know how many craftsmen have been difficult. Legend has it that at that time, the craftsmen chose to burn azure glaze on rainy days, because azure glaze needed higher humidity, and the ancients could not control the environment, could not create the temperature and humidity of the smoke and rain weather and other environments, so they could only wait for the smoke and rain days with large air humidity to be fired. Another explanation is that azure must be the color of the sky at sunrise after the rain, and the ancients in order to refer to whether the color is accurate, each kiln can only wait for heavy rain to fall, and then compare the burned porcelain with the sky after the rain. This kind of color with smoke and rain texture is also included in the song of the present person: "Azure and other smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you." ”
There is also a special "snow blue" color in the traditional Chinese color. Although there is "snow" and "blue" in the name, it is neither white nor cyan, but a cold purple-red color. In the 87th edition of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" TV series, "Lin Daiyu" wore a set of snow green bijia cover, plus a light green tulle jacket, with a long white skirt, smart and flowing.
"Bi" is also a color with a story. "Bi" originally referred to a turquoise stone, and was later described as turquoise. In the spring, due to the increase in temperature, the algae in the water multiplyed, and the color of the water would turn blue-green, so poets often compared the water at this time to jasper. Du Fu's "Absolute Sentence" has "Jiang Bi Bird Over White", Bai Juyi's "Remembering Jiangnan" has "Spring River Water is As Green as Blue", and Wei Zhuang's "Bodhisattva Man" has "Spring Water is Blue in the Sky", all of which describe this natural phenomenon.
There is a kind of "sky water blue" in the "blue" color, as the name suggests, it is a light cyan like the sky and green water. The name is said to have been coined by Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty. During the Southern Tang Dynasty, green was popular in the palace, and palace women and concubines not only competed to wear green clothes, but also printed and dyed themselves. Once, when a concubine was dying, she forgot the unstained green silk drapery and hung it outside for a night. This was originally a mistake, but I didn't expect that the silk drapery was stained with dew, and the green was more vivid and transparent. When Li Yu learned of this, he said, "Since this color is stained by the water of heaven, it is called Tianshui Bi!" Ouyang Xiu later had a word called "night rain dyed into heaven and water blue", which added a bit of poetry to this color.
Why
The saying "kneel under the skirt of a pomegranate"?
The naming of traditional Chinese colors not only takes the law to create nature, but also does not leave the fireworks world. For example, the colors in the boudoir are not only bright and colorful, but also full of style.
The beautiful black hair is also known as "green cloud", "green silk" and "cloud beard". Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu" said: "Green clouds disturb, comb Xiao Yan also." Su Manshu has a poem: "Light sweep moth eyebrow towards the painter, concentric bun knot green silk." Su Shi had a word: "The colored thread is gently wrapped around the red jade arm, and the small symbol hangs obliquely on the green cloud beard." The "green" and "green" here refer to black, and the "cloud" is also a dark cloud.
"Cui" and "Dai" are the colors of a woman's eyebrows. "Thin eyebrows, sideburns, long night pillow cold", Wen Tingjun's lonely woman of acacia is lazy to thrush and groom. "Thick Dai light red dot flower color, but also want to make people do not know", Liang Yuan Emperor Xiao Xuan's beautiful demon Ji is often thick makeup, "Dai" is the ancient women's eyebrows used in the blue-black pigment.
In a woman's dresser, rouge is essential. Rouge is a red pigment that is said to originate in the Yanzhi Mountains in the territory of the Xiongnu, hence the name. Emperor Huizong of Song described the makeup of the palace women, including the addition of rouge: "Cut the ice silk, lightly fold several weights, and lightly add rouge evenly." Beautiful flowers bloom and wither with rain and dew, and are often compared to the rouge of beauty. When we talk about women, we often say "red face confidant" and "red face is thin life", "red face" is the color of rouge.
Women's lip color, also often bright and feminine, is called "cherry small mouth" or "lip". Bai Juyi wrote his own Kabuki and said: "Cherry Fan Sukou, Willow Small Wild Waist." "Cherry small bites, not only small, but also ruddy. The Southern Dynasty River flooded the beauty, and said: "The snow condenses the appearance of Qiong Qiong, and the pearl dots the lips." "Lips are red and white, that is the world's best woman, and the name of the word brand in the future generations, "Dotted Lips", comes from here."
As for women's clothing, it is more colorful. "Single shirt apricot red", probably orange-red; "Luo Luo is not light, the opposite side teaches people to dye red", probably light red; "Remember the green Luo skirt, everywhere pity the grass", is the same turquoise as grass. Of all the colors, though, garnets are probably a woman's favorite color. It is said that the garnet color is the color of blood red, which is the color dyed by the pomegranate flower, and the skirt of this color is called the pomegranate skirt, and the Liang Yuan Emperor has a poem: "The dragon becomes a brocade phoenix pattern, and the hibiscus is a skirt with a pomegranate." Empress Wu Zetian also wrote a poem: "Look at Zhu Chengbisi, haggard and fragmented for yijun." In disbelief, I often wept and opened the box to examine the pomegranate skirt. "Pomegranate skirts have always been the exclusive of beauties, and in the legend of the pomegranate skirts of the Tang Dynasty, there is also an allusion: it is said that during the Tianbao period, the civil officials and courtiers had to kneel and pray when they saw Yang Guifei because of the order of The Tang Ming Emperor, and Yang Guifei liked to wear pomegranate skirts on weekdays, so "kneeling under the pomegranate skirt" became a common saying for worshiping and admiring women.
Knowing so many traditional colors, which one do you like?