Not surprisingly, the whole network was noisy because of the Spring Festival Gala.
Good looks and newspapers, 10,000 people have 10,000 answers in their hearts, and the extra one is wavering.
But this time, the sheep only expressed the following views on behalf of individuals:
It is another year that is amazed + shocked by the oriental national color aesthetics in the Spring Festival Gala of the main station!
The Spring Festival Gala in Chinese is inseparable from Chinese colors.
First look at the theme color of the Spring Festival Gala, and choose the two colors of madder red and locust yellow, corresponding to our five-star red flag.
The traditional Chinese colors, which represent "endless and prosperous", are interpreted in fashion in the new era.
And because 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, the main visual logo is based on the cursive character "卯".
Combined with the Spring Festival Gala mascot rabbit round image, it conjures up a galloping posture.
The movement is born in the static, conveying the unique beauty of Chinese characters and paintings.
Then there is "A Hundred Birds Return to the Nest" sung by Tan Weiwei, adapted from the intangible cultural heritage of the millennium Yale Nanyin.
Pure Chinese colors are used to create a light in all directions, combined with the sound of ancient silk and bamboo, and reproduce the colorful and vivid scene of birds soaring and playing.
The most eye-catching is "Full Tingfang National Color" sung by Zhao Liying.
Using graceful traditional art, it presents the poetry behind a total of 47 Chinese colors.
Among them, the water sleeve interprets the softness of "rosé"
The folding fan shows the "coagulation" spirit show
The paper umbrella dances the "satin leaf" gracefully
Lingzi is like "ultramarine" and agile
The long sword wields the image of "agarwood"
These 5 classical color cards are the basic tones of traditional Chinese colors.
Chinese Chinese color, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, blue, yellow, red, white, black as five square colors.
And with it as the base color, and then extend the colorful and picturesque exhibition.
The ancients on the mainland have always pursued "taking the law from nature".
It extracts raw materials from natural things such as mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon, grass, wood, insects, fish, and the four seasons of heaven and earth to make colors.
Over time, a unique traditional Chinese color aesthetic system has been formed.
384 Chinese colors developed from the basic five colors
In the original Chinese color context, color is not just a color value, but a person's complexion.
Chinese pays attention to the unity of heaven and man, everything has its unique qi, and it also has its unique color.
Therefore, behind the traditional color, there is a Chinese aesthetic taste and ancient oriental philosophical wisdom.
The color concept design of the 2023 Spring Festival Gala is built on the traditional Chinese color system.
With the positive color as the longitude and the intercolor as the weft, it weaves a gorgeous visual feast, highlighting the Chinese aesthetic culture spanning thousands of years.
Chinese color is not only on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, but also passed down from generation to generation in literature, craftsmanship and architecture.
To discuss the leader of "seeing China with color", the historical classic "Dream of Red Mansions" is self-contained.
Resurrect 60 red chamber brocade colors
Bring historical texts to life
I often hear people say: a dream of the Red Mansion, half a history of color.
Qing Dynasty Sun Wen's "Dream of the Red Mansion"
The original author, Cao Xueqin, has four people in three generations of ancestors and grandchildren who have done Jiangning weaving.
And this is a government-run weaving bureau specializing in weaving imperial uniforms, seasonal uniforms, court uniforms and imperial uniforms.
Under the influence of his ears, his understanding and application of Chinese color are more thorough and sharp than ordinary people.
He also wrote a "Collection of Waste Art Collections", one of which detailed the weaving printing and dyeing process.
Therefore, in "Dream of Red Mansions", Cao Xueqin is also good at setting off the character and emotions of the characters with color, and vividly expressing sorrow and joy with color matching.
Qing Dynasty Sun Wen's "Dream of the Red Mansion"
And when we read "Dream of Red Mansions", although the text description is beautiful, it can be perceived through imagination.
But the visual colors in the characters and sets, it is difficult to feel without seeing the real thing.
Even if the color sensitivity is high, there will be a considerable deviation between the conceivable and the actual one.
Coincidentally, there is a contemporary little old man who is a fan of Cao Xueqin and a "womanizerous maniac".
After half a life, he perfectly restored the 60 colors in the original book of "Dream of Red Mansions".
"I must turn the colors in the dream of the Red Mansion into visual visibility."
He said and did it, so that the glory of history reflects the present day.
Among them, the moon white is the soft light blue of white under the bright moon sky.
It has an extremely elegant freshness and purity, but in the end it is too supreme, reflecting a trace of high cold, and it seems to be a little uncannibalistic.
There are two people in "Dream of Red Mansions" who love Yuebai, one is Lin Daiyu and the other is Miaoyu, and their common point is that they are arrogant and talented.
Sinking the nature into the white moon on that side, it is as clear and bleak as the afterlight, transparent and mournful.
In this noisy red dust, it is even more immortal and cold.
Honey color, slightly yellow and white, some yellowish with red.
The word honey is a Chinese medicine term used in Chinese medicine, which comes from a process of refining honey and drawing honey to bond the end of the medicine, and making it into a pill.
It can be simply understood that we are now pulling the "silk" in the sweet potato on the table.
Not only "Dream of Red Mansions", "Journey to the West" and "Jin Ping Mei" have also mentioned this traditional color.
Xue Baochi most often wears honey color, which is actually light yellowish white, and does not have the high color purity of big red and green.
It is not dazzling, not ostentatious, giving people a proper and comfortable feeling, and can properly reflect the status and situation of the characters.
The honey color in the 87th edition of "Dream of Red Mansions" is not accurate
Xue Baochi was under the fence in the middle of the family road, and the clothes were half-new and not old, and they looked not luxurious, but elegant.
It not only retains the delicate beauty of a girl, but also conforms to her deep personality of hiding foolishness and guarding and deliberately low-key.
But after all, she is from a rich family, and she can't be too shabby, and honey synthesizes her best choice.
Concubine Yang's color, ancient and "crimson", is a slightly yellow red, and it is the hazy powder on the concubine's face after being drunk.
"Dream of the Red Mansion" has this description:
"But I saw that Daiyu was wearing a small fur jacket embroidered with moon white, plus silver rat shoulders; On his head he held a cloud sale, and there was a red gold flat hairpin on the hairpin, and there were no flowers; Under the waist is tied a concubine embroidered brocade skirt."
Concubine Yang is often used in girls' clothing, which can add a delicate and charming feeling.
Lotus color, generally refers to light purple and slightly red, green lotus color with white powder, red more than blue similar to snow cyan.
The brightness is somewhat dark, which can be attributed to purple, and the most intuitive is the color of the lotus root after cooking.
It is a color system of silk in "Dream of Red Mansions", which appears three times:
The top lotus color flower tent, the tufted new lotus yarn shirt, and the mandarin duck wear a half-new silk jacket with a new lotus color.
Wearing a lotus in midsummer, not only is it not cumbersome, but also increases vitality, it is both elegant and delicate, and has a sense of visual extension.
In addition to these, the colors of the Red House also include plum dye, pale, chestnut, thin persimmon, drunken face, raven green, wakasao, bamboo moon, tianshui bi...
The obscure color words are presented in the most intuitive way, one by one, faint in front of the eyes, conveying the imprint of the times.
Needless to say, only the Chinese color created by Chinese can be so incomprehensible!
These colors are derived from traditional Chinese plant dyeing techniques, and they are all natural dyeing.
Therefore, its hue is incomparable with today's chemical dyeing.
Flowers and grass dyeing techniques
Establish a Chinese color standard system
The plant dyeing technique of reducing the color of the red chamber brocade, also known as grass and wood dyeing, is a traditional printing and dyeing method that uses natural plants as dyes.
The stems, leaves, fruits, skins, and flowers of all plants can be the source of the colorful colors of red, yellow, blue and green.
For example, grape skins can be dyed purple, overlord flowers can be dyed yellow-green, and mangosteen shells can be dyed orange-red.
This skill has been recorded as far back as the Zhou Dynasty, and has been passed down by ancestors for 2,800 years.
Although it has a long history, its shortcomings are also obvious under the impact of the chemical dyeing market pioneered by Europeans.
Time-consuming, laborious, labor-intensive, highly dependent on manual work, and cannot be produced on a large scale.
At the same time, many plant dyeing methods have been lost or are on the verge of being lost.
Therefore, it is not easy to use this ancient dyeing technique to restore the color aesthetics of "Dream of Red Mansions" with high precision.
There are no predecessors to use as a reference, and all learning and research can only be groped and experimented to move forward.
Like Lin Daiyu's favorite moon white, seemingly simple blue, it is actually very difficult.
Although it is the same as other blue colors such as rainy days, royal blue, and Buddha blue, it is dyed indigo with bluegrass.
However, the concentration of color matching is very difficult to master, and sometimes it is necessary to match it with other colors.
The time to dye the moon white is only a few seconds, and you have to take it out after fishing it in the water.
And it is very uncontrollable, it is green in the water, and when it comes into contact with the air, it oxidizes and turns blue.
Because it is impossible to intuitively predict the depth of printing and dyeing colors, the failure rate is relatively high, which is a great test of the technical level of the dyeers.
There is also a more typical golden yellow in "Dream of Red Mansions", yellow and reddish slightly like the color of gold.
In the team of the Yuanchun Province relatives, there has been a golden-roofed golden yellow Xiufeng version of the public opinion, she is an imperial princess, so she can be used.
This golden yellow color is also the most common Chinese color in mainland historical texts.
However, modern dyes cannot restore their hue 100%, only plant dyeing techniques can do it.
We all know that the color of the dragon robe worn by the Son of Heaven in ancient times was bright yellow.
This practice began during the Sui Dynasty, when it was still called Zhehuang, which was dyed with Zhehuang.
Tamaki trees are a very valuable species in the north, because they grow slowly, they are difficult to grow and are scarce.
In the long run, it was difficult to meet the large needs of the palace, so it gradually began to replace it with the yellow chestnut of Xiangshan.
There are indeed many people who know that Huang Li dyes yellow, but there are very few who can dye such a stunning golden yellow.
You need to find the yellow chestnut tree that grows deep in the southwest mountains, sawn the sprouted branches, clean them, and boil them over a large fire.
After repeated filtering, keep the dye water temperature at 60 °C, and then put the cloth into it to dye.
The operation requires quick eyes, one second more or one second less, which will lead to the wrong color.
And at present, this golden yellow, only this "lecherous maniac" little old man, has mastered the dyeing technique.
He also helped the Palace Museum to restore the dragon robe cultural relics.
In this way, the heavens do half and he does half of it, like day after day, year after year.
After more than 40 years of exploration and practice, more than 1,000 kinds of plants have been tried and more than 7,000 colors have been produced.
The Little Master of Chinese Studies "The Original Intention Does Not Change the Style"
Moreover, he also sorted out and filed and established China's first standard color card for plant printing and dyeing.
The color card alone weighs 35 pounds.
Among them, there are 1082 kinds of restored Chinese colors, and 706 kinds of color words named by the ancients are used.
This allows Chinese to use its own popular colors to tell the Chinese charm in contemporary times.
And his name is Huang Ronghua.
"Womanizer" Huang Ronghua
The only non-genetic inheritor of plant dyeing in China
Huang Ronghua's plant dyeing skills, learning from his ancestral industry, and keeping pace with the times.
When he was 5 years old playing, he thought that kites made of white paper were not good-looking, so he crushed the leaves to paint them.
As an adult, he inherited the family's Nan Paper Shop, which sells the four treasures of the study and framed paintings, and also inherited the craft of plant dyeing.
After that, he worked as an engineer in a state-owned textile factory.
After learning about the difficult inheritance of plant dyeing skills in China, he decided to use his ancestral kung fu to dye the names of plants.
He organized the construction of the Chinese plant dyeing system, so that China had the first standard color card for plant dyeing.
Provide extremely important technical support for the restoration of national cultural relics such as ancient calligraphy and paintings, ancient books, and ancient costumes.
The 60 brocade colors depicted in "Dream of Red Mansions" were restored with high precision, expanding the field of red studies.
With the efforts of Huang Lao, the plant dyeing technique was selected as an intangible cultural heritage of Hubei Province and also appeared on the creative show of Fashion Week.
The combination of traditional Chinese colors, traditional clothing design and modern textile technology allows intangible cultural heritage to be revitalized and inherited.
He has also successfully appeared on the international runway in Paris, France, with 39 sets of plant-dyed fashion, highlighting oriental aesthetics.
In order to control the quality of plant dyeing techniques, he was exposed to dyes without gloves for many years.
Feel the temperature, feel the viscosity, decades of immersion, fingers leave traces that cannot be washed off.
He lived in a small, shabby courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing, immersed in a world of plants and colors, enjoying it without fame or fortune.
In Elder Huang's view, all honors are things outside the body.
"I want to pass on our Chinese skills, which is the duty of a craftsman."
He also founded a professional training class for traditional dyeing, passing on the ancient dyeing techniques belonging to the Chinese nation.
Although Elder Huang had many students, he did not have a single apprentice.
One of the hard criteria for wanting to be his inheritor is to stick to it for at least ten years.
Some people say that you can only do one thing in your life.
And in Huang Lao's life, he only did the restoration of plant dyeing ancient dyeing techniques, this one thing.
But that's enough.
Chinese color is the way Chinese sees the world. But for Chinese, Chinese color is more than color.
It should not only be in porcelain, in scrolls, on rock walls, but also under the brush, during creation, and when it is inherited.