Concubine Red, Cang Qing, Qiu Yan, Moon White, Ten Kinds of Brocade, Yuanshan Rudai, Qingmei Boiled Wine, Hashibashi Chunbo...
If you are also impressed by these beautiful names, then congratulations, you have entered a mysterious and beautiful world, called: Traditional Chinese Colors.
The so-called traditional Chinese color is the way to define color Chinese, and it is also the way to Chinese look at the world.
Behind the color, there is an oriental aesthetic and ancient wisdom that has been passed down for thousands of years.
However, the traditional color is difficult to find, and it can only be seen in historical books, poems, Buddhist texts, and medical books, and its color spectrum is even more unsystematically inherited.
In the long run, the beauty of traditional colors will gradually be lost in the old paper inscription.
For example, the green on the picture is called "Bishan". The beauty of traditional colors should enter life, so that every Chinese can get and touch.
In fact, in the aesthetic area, we have influenced East Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea.
Precious cultural relics are awarded, and the color is learned from the Forbidden City
Yellow and white tour, Yingying, frost, yarn... If you go back hundreds of years, you will find that these words, which sound unimaginable today, have always been the companions of our ancestors.
What they eat, use, and put on the table is all a beautiful Chinese color, and the elegance of the day is slowly formed in the meantime.
Want to see the beauty of the ancestors, the taste of the great American color? The Forbidden City has please~
Qing Yongzheng Yongzheng rouge water pastel flower butterfly small bowl
Clear moon white dark flower silk string glass bead pattern bachelor helmet
Qing Qianlong Filigree enamel passion lotus pattern refrigerator
Qing Coral emerald auspicious celebration has yu bonsai
Qing Jincheng Flower and Bird Screen (Partial)
Qing Qianlong inlaid with gemstone tourmaline flower hairpins
Note: These hand-drawn drawings are all based on the actual cultural relics of the Forbidden City as a reference, and they are copied little by little.
China established the color structure very early on, with the five colors of yellow, blue, red, black and white as the positive colors, and the earth, wood, fire, water and metal in the five elements are related.
It integrates the concepts of nature, the universe, ethics, philosophy and so on, forming a unique Chinese color culture.
Each color has its own story and destiny, and all of them contain an understanding of life and the beauty of Chinese. Therefore, when the authors interpret it, they also carry a poetic mood and language.
For example, the phenology of "East Wind Thawing" (belonging to the "Lichun" solar terms) corresponds to four colors: Tianmiao, Canglang, Cangqi (láng), and Miaobi.
From "Tianmiao", it is close to the azure color of waiting for smoke and rain;
Inheriting the "vicissitudes" is to say that my heart is leisurely. I don't believe you can eat a bowl of good noodles in Suzhou in the spring, and then go to Canglang Pavilion to dip your feet in the water to try;
Turn to "Cangyi", 筤 is the meaning of bamboo, and there is no more representative of spring than "bamboo birth", the beauty of spring, all in this color;
In line with "Miaobi", Miaobi is a big color, or appears on the tiles of the palace garden, or appears in the water of rivers, or appears in Li Hou lord's poem "Miao-color jade soft Qing, and the face of the floating cup is clear." ”
Young poet and photographer Velvet meteorite works
The beauty of traditional colors is the beauty of chinese Chinese. There is a kind of blue called stealing blue. When many people first read it, they instantly thought of Sister Lin's classic sentence "stealing pear rui three points white", and its exquisite image and play with language are quite similar.
Source: Excerpted from the "China Daily Bilingual News" WeChat public account
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