I don't know if anyone is like me
In the summer
I like to face the shade of the thick green trees
Press the shutter hard
Then use the color grading system to pull the vibrance to the maximum
Look at the color blocks that are so bright that they overflow with ink
The mood is also brighter
Summer is such a season
To the sun, to grow brilliantly, to be cheerful and light
Today's article takes you on a trip to the summer
Walk around the Chinese bloodline
Those colors
red
If you ask, "What color best represents China?" This answer shouldn't be complicated for most people. The Chinese are still red, red in their bones, and red in their blood.
This is not entirely to say that red is the color of blood, red is really important in Chinese life: red weddings lead red lines, red lanterns and couplets are hung in thousands of households, and red national flags are flying high.
Qingdao Yushan Road
A red wall with a positive color
There are a lot of people clocking in every day
Almost every city has its own "Internet celebrity red wall", a pure red under the traditional Chinese eaves, people can't help but get close to it, so that the red is also dyed with its own color. But when thinking of the Red Wall, I believe that more people still think of the Forbidden City.
Forbidden City
The red of the Forbidden City is the red of eminence. The Chinese five-color system is the core that dominates the traditional Chinese color aesthetics, in ancient times, the five colors of "green, yellow, red, white, and black" were defined as the positive colors, and the other colors were defined as intermediate colors. The "red" here is red. The red Forbidden City is not only a symbol of architectural beauty, but also a symbol of moral beauty and majesty of power.
Nowadays, the red wall, the red column, the red door, the red background or the red picture frame frame frame a plum branch, a side of the sky, and a cat master of the Forbidden City, countless tourists also want to stand in it and become a color of the Forbidden City.
The red Forbidden City with the Forbidden City cat
The most endearing NPC in the Forbidden City
Red, the color of blood and fire, is tense and majestic. Red has the longest wavelength and the slowest vibrational frequency in the visible spectrum, and is the most likely to attract attention, excitement, and nervousness.
The blue bricks, white bridges, red walls and golden tiles, the colors strictly arranged from bottom to top show the class stratification under the monarchy, standing in the vermilion Forbidden City, as if standing in the heavenly power that wants to fall, and like standing in the eyes of all the people.
The red Forbidden City
Countless people have spent their lives in the red walls
The famous anthropologist Grosser said in "The Origin of Art": "Red is the color loved by all peoples. "Red is the color that beats in the veins, and it is the first thought of human beings about life; Red is also the color of fire and the sun, and it brings life to human beings.
Blood of the Earth
It is located in Tuotuo River, Qinghai Province
It is generally due to the flow of rivers through the red sand shale
Caused by carrying red fine sand
Red also represents the heart. In the Tengger Desert of the Alxa Left Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, under the scorching summer sun, a "heart" seems to be able to pump the blood of the earth at any time. This is a lake, Lake Ulan.
"Heart of the Earth"
Pure red found in nature
This red is full of life. In the scorching summer, the evaporation is violent, the water level of Wulan Lake decreases, the salinity increases, and the astaxanthin in the artemia insects living in the salt water lake continues to increase, and the body color turns red; The salt algae in the lake multiply rapidly under sufficient temperature and light, producing a large amount of carotenoids, which also stains the lake water red. The high salinity of the lake also supports a large number of red halophiles, which makes the lake water a blood-red color.
The high temperature of summer makes this "heart" more vivid and enters the best viewing period - it is like a red fire reborn.
The white "blood vessels" make the heart of the earth look
More like a heart
But others say it's like a steak
As for the white "blood vessels" on this "heart", they are actually also made of salt. The volume of high-concentration brine in the lake is easy to expand after crystallization, which leads to the expansion of the salt crust on the lake surface to the periphery. The thick layers of salt crusts squeeze each other as they expand, causing the contact surfaces to break and bulge, eventually forming a fragmented grid-like structure.
However, compared with Wulan Lake, if you have a friend who is familiar with geography and mentions "red", he may be more familiar with the famous Danxia.
Danxia Mountains
The red roll is dyed deep green, and the sunset is gilded
The features of flat roofs and steep cliffs are very pronounced
The Danxia landform belongs to the red-bed landform, which is formed by water erosion, and its red color comes from the red conglomerate. It is particularly widely distributed in China, and on August 1, 2010, "China Danxia" was inscribed on the World Heritage List and became a World Natural Heritage Site.
The Danxia landform formed by long-term weathering and water erosion has many isolated peaks and strange rocks and strange stones, with flat tops, steep bodies and gentle feet, with obvious horizontal bedding structure, which is very ornamental; If there is another beautiful water, the water also carries red, forming a landscape of "red water".
Guizhou Chishui Danxia Waterfall
The red conglomerate carried by the water gives the waterfall its red color
The name of "Chishui" is well deserved
"The color is like Wodan, bright as the bright glow", the Danxia landform is widely distributed in 28 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) on the mainland, and the "Furong Pond" with the name of "Danxia" is used to describe this wonder - "Danxia sandwiches the bright moon, and the stars come out of the clouds." The sky is shining brightly, and the five colors are fresh. ”
Zhangye Caiqiu landform
"God's Overturned Palette"
It belongs to the same red bed landform as Danxia landform
But it's not the same subtype
However, when it comes to the red-bed landform, we have to mention the famous Zhangye. Caiqiu landform and Danxia landform belong to the same red bed landform, but Caiqiu landform is a weak siltstone, argillaceous rock exposed to the surface, under the action of dry and wet, temperature difference, the surface layer is rapidly weathered and eroded by rain, repeatedly, thus forming a dense valley terrain. The Caiqiu landform has a richer color than the Danxia landform.
yellow
The Chinese are inseparable from yellow.
The fact that the complexion cannot be peeled is only the least important reason. In summer, the golden sunshine, in autumn, the golden wheat field, yellow is bright, warm, and habitually loved.
The most important thing is that the Chinese are born in a yellow soil, raised by a Yellow River, and grown under five Venus. Perhaps the two most important colors in Chinese life are the colors of the national flag - red and yellow.
Zhengzhou section of the Yellow River
The slow flow rate settles the sediment
A large number of sandbars in the river are formed
Hukou Waterfall is the most magnificent yellow that blends the Yellow River with the Loess Plateau.
Located in the city of Linfen in Shanxi Province, it is the largest yellow waterfall in the world, and has recently attracted many tourists due to the increase in the amount of water upstream.
Hukou Waterfall
It reminds people of the Yellow River Cantata
"The wind is roaring, the horses are roaring, the Yellow River is roaring!"
If you can stand next to Hukou Waterfall, you can probably smell the extremely impactful water and earthy smell, and your ears are filled with the sound of the waterfall that is more majestic than any symphony.
There is nothing more suitable than this time to sing: "The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky——! "The surging Yellow River roars towards you, and then unwillingly discharges downstream," the flying waterfalls compete for the hustle and bustle, and the cliffs turn to rocks and thunder. "It seems that I am going to take you away with me in the next second - at this moment, you may be able to feel that the mother river of the Chinese nation is indeed not very good-tempered.
Panoramic view of Hukou Waterfall
Angry Yellow River
Yellow is reminiscent of ripening and wilting. For example, patches of wheat and leaves that are regretted after being eaten by insects.
But yellow is also fresh and vibrant, such as the flowering skirt of a little girl, and for example, the sea of rape flowers blooming on the shore of Qinghai Lake in July.
Qinghai Lake with rape flowers
The same color as the raccoon washed
Rape flowers bloom on the shore of Qinghai Lake, blue sky and lake, white clouds, green grass, golden and brilliant flower fields, huge and full color blocks fill the whole sight, as if the world is full of "bright" concept.
Qinghai Lake is almost the latest place for rape flowers to bloom on the mainland. Qinghai Lake is 3,196 meters above sea level, and the average temperature in July is only between 5.8°C and 20.2°C, so the best time to see it is in early July.
Qinghai Lake
Green, yellow, blue
Nice big color block!
The large yellow is reminiscent of a glorious summer, while the lake and sky are reminiscent of coolness – a cool summer! Qinghai Lake is so great for escaping the heat, even if it's only eyes (because you can only look at pictures).
Here's what migrant workers like to see, because golden yellow is the color of money.
Huguang Guild Hall, including the Sanchu Office
and Guangdong, Qi'an, Jiangxi, Jiangnan Hall
There aren't many buildings known for their yellow color, but Chongqing's Huguang Guild Hall is mentioned repeatedly. The horse-head wall it uses is not the common white wall and black tile, but the bright yellow with high saturation, and the Jiangnan garden and Hui-style architecture in the park change the scenery step by step, all exquisite, showing the prosperity of Chongqing as a commercial port.
Huguang Guild Hall shows the prosperity of Chongqing
The thoroughfare of eight provinces, businessmen gathered
However, another piece of golden light is more famous, and even greatly shocked a wave of foreigners - the Hongya Cave in the cyberpunk city of Chongqing that exploded on Tik Tok.
Hongya Cave is a group of stilted buildings, which is praised as the "city in the sky" by Chinese and foreign media, but it seems that only the lights are on fire. The best shooting point of Hongya Cave is on the Qianguomen Bridge, since the explosion in Chongqing every night has to be restricted, many foreigners with families are amazed at the golden Hongya Cave, and the local people in Chongqing frown: "A piece of light, there is a good-looking one~"
Qianguomen Bridge and Hongya Cave
You can also see Hongya Cave on the Yangtze River cruise
More yellow, which is closely related to Chongqing people, is actually the famous "better than electronic map", "mountain city roller coaster", "yellow lightning", "legend of never being late" - Chongqing taxi!
Yellow lightning, never miss the car (machine)!
white
White, bright, and the sight touches it like touching a piece of ice.
White is very complicated in the context of the Chinese, "a piece of ice heart in the jade pot", sincerity; "There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting and learning, such as grinding", pure; "Jun buried the mud under the spring, and I sent the world full of snow", to mourn.
White is not colorless, but white can dye any color – just as the state of mind is important when you see a white scene.
In China, white means auspicious
White cranes, white fish, white jade
They are all auspicious omen sought after by rulers
有一片白色被中外媒体盛赞为“China White”。
It was a white that anyone would be shocked by when they saw it. The National Museum of China held an exhibition for it, and countless people were amazed by the plasticity of white - Dehua white porcelain.
Dehua white porcelain on display at the National Museum of China
Trust your eyes, every detail of the dress
All of them are kiln-fired white porcelain
The openwork linen skirt, the white jade princess dancing, and the white hair are clear - the magical visual effect makes you frequently have the illusion that "this is not porcelain, this is a miracle".
外媒体惊呼"China White"——中国白,mysteriously white 瓷器,德化白瓷。
A group portrait of people with strong Chinese characteristics
China White
But if you go to the birthplace of "China White", it is quaint and unassuming, almost all of them are kilns, all kinds of porcelain, in these earthy brick kilns, under the wildest and most sophisticated fire, in the rough and dark hands of craftsmen, the purest Chinese white is born.
Yueji kiln
More than 400 years of history
It is a must-choose place for the study of ancient Chinese firewood kilns
If you've ever been to Shangri-La in Yunnan, and if you've ever learned about the Naxi people and the story of Baishuitai, you'll probably know more about the meaning of white for "holiness".
Baishuidae
"Sennin Ryota"
Baishuidae is known as the "Immortal Relic Field". She seems to be carved out of white jade, and she is dyed by the water-colored field, like a miracle.
The Naxi people believe that Baishuitai is a treasure given by the protector god. They learned God's will to build terraces. The Naxi mother will load the children with a small bag of white stones from Baishuitai before they go away, hoping that the blessing of Baishuitai will travel with the children all over the world.
Baishuidae
The largest Huaquan Plateau in mainland China
The cause of Baishuitai is that calcium carbonate is dissolved in the spring water, and the flow rate is slowly deposited into layers of mantles, forming the shape of terraced fields scattered by the oblique moon. The white Yao Pond, a handful of clear water, like the emerald color of the crystal dyed with snow, this scene should not be in the world.
Next write a different kind of white from the snowy mountains, which can be called "between the snow and the moonlight, you are the third white." ”
Baisha Mountain, Baisha Lake and Snow Mountain
The source composition of Baisha Mountain sand is light gray or even earthy white limestone sand
In Bulunkou Township, Aktao County, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, Baisha Mountain and Baisha Lake stand side by side. Baisha Lake is as blue as a wash, Baisha Mountain is undulating like waves, that is the traces left by the wind, whenever there is a strong wind blowing, Baisha Mountain will make a sound - yes, another Mingsha Mountain.
If no one says it, people who see it for the first time will probably think that Baisha Lake is named because of its proximity to Baisha Mountain, but in fact it is the opposite: the salt-like white sand on Baisha Mountain comes from Baisha Lake.
Baisha Mountain and Baisha Lake
The bottom of the lake is covered with white silt
The gray-white limestone strata in the valley at the western foot of Gonger Jiubie Peak are washed into white sand by the Karakuri River to form a white sand lake. During the dry season, strong winds from the Cover Canyon pile up the sediment at the bottom of the lake, which is called Baisha Mountain.
In 2010, the completion of the Bulunkou Hydropower Station blocked part of the sand source of Baisha Mountain. This plateau wonder, I don't know how much life is left.
black
In any culture, black is a very special color. It seems to come from the gaze of the abyss, but it is common to see it in the burnt wood under the farmhouse stove.
Black is the night, but with the black background, the light is more visible. Black is the other half of the yin and yang fish, as if it also highlights the other half of the character of the Chinese nation.
Black and white yin and yang fish
The background color of Chinese civilization
The production of Huimo has been reproduced many times by short video bloggers. Many people have been shocked by the unit of the chronicle passively, collecting pine smoke, beating it repeatedly, turning it every day, drying it in the shade for the whole year, making a small piece of ink, the work is staggeringly complicated.
Dry in the shade for a year, pound 100,000 with a pestle, turn it over every day, and leave it for a year
"One or two emblems and one or two gold"
The paper is like lacquer, and the color is black; It does not fade for a long time, and the pen and paper are not glued; Rich fragrance and moisturizing skin. It is light, grinding is clear, smelling is sweet, hard as jade, silent, a little like paint, and it is true for thousands of years.
Huimo is mostly produced in Huangshan and Xuancheng in Anhui Province. The four seasons are distinct, mild and rainy, suitable for the growth of pine and paulownia trees. The rain falls on the eaves, and when you raise your eyes, the white walls and black tiles come into view.
Anhui Hongcun
White walls and black tiles, distant mountains and green daisies, red lights reflect people's homes
The golden eaves were used by the royal family, and black was the color of the commoners. Black and white, small bridges and flowing water, bluestone rain alleys, almost all Chinese come into contact with these images, and can quickly paint an ink painting in their minds.
This is Hui architecture, which is an iconic symbol of a kind of "dream water town" of the Chinese. Almost all Hui architecture is black tiles, black and white, which is a prominent embodiment of the Chinese concept of color.
Black and white
Hui architecture can directly constitute an ink painting
Unlike white, black is a cloudy color.
All the light mixed together will form white, and all the colors mixed together will form black. What is white in itself becomes black – a cloudy mystery, this is the black glacier of Oittak Glacier Park, its Krazi Glacier.
Oytak Glacier Park
Oyitak Glacier Park is located in Aktao County, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, where its Krazi Glacier crawls in the valley, and the ice envelops the dark and loose rocks, forming a mysterious and cold black glacier.
Behind the Krazi glacier are still white snow-capped mountains. The huge black snake lies quietly, forming a huge contrast with the white glacier, and the Chinese's black and white yin and yang view is confirmed by nature at this moment, which is really very wonderful.
Snow-capped mountains and their Krazi glaciers
The black glaciers are muddy and cold
China also has a piece of black that is unique in the world. It is a mylonic stone forest, known as the "exclamation point on the Sichuan-Tibet line" - Moshi Park, located at the junction of Karma Village and Zhonggu Village, Bamei Town, Daofu County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and close to National Highway 318, the most beautiful self-driving viewing avenue in China.
Ink Stone Park
Due to the metamorphic rock forest landscape, it is extremely rare all over the world
Known as "China's Geological Bermuda"
The mylonite forest is formed by the gradual rise of the hydromorphic rocks on the seabed with the movement of the earth's crust in ancient times, crushed by strong in-situ stress, and then eroded by wind and rain.
Before the formation of mylonite, the parent rock was sandslate, and the regional dynamic action generated by the strong fracture has ground the hard parent rock, and now it has become a powder, very soft, more like mud. The stone contains calcium salts, and the crystalline water contained in it is pale black due to the influence of high air humidity.
Taking pictures in Moshi Park is like "entering the alien planet with one click"
But if you want to take pictures, remember to wear bright clothes
It will be more obvious
"The stone is edged". Like a plastic ink strip, thousands of years of grinding have forced the stone into stone, and the moment you stand on it, I don't know if human beings can forgive a little bit of their own insignificance.
But when a black fire burns on the land, you have to become bright and burn in it.
blue
In the context of the Chinese, "green" is actually three colors. "Blue out of blue" is blue; "Morning is like green silk turning into snow at dusk", which is black; "I see how charming the green mountains are", it is green.
But when it comes to "green", most Chinese first think of the popular lyrics: "Azure is waiting for smoke and rain, and I am waiting for you." "Azure blue" - what color is it?
Where the rain passes, and the clouds break
Can you see the colors of the ancients?
Maybe it's the color of Song Huizong's dream. Legend has it that Song Huizong fell into a dream one day, dreaming that after a rain, the clouds in the sky were blown through a small opening, and the incomparably pure color was revealed from it. So, after waking up from a dream, he ordered someone to fire porcelain of this color - this is Ru kiln celadon. The scribes described the color of the Ru kiln celadon by describing the porcelain of the Later Zhou Chai kiln: "The rain passes through the sky and the clouds are broken, and this color will be the future." ”
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Celadon Special Exhibition "Longquan in the World"
The azure West Lake scoops a handful of clear water
The three pools shaped by celadon reflect the moon
As if because of the definition of this color, which is connected to the rain, azure is always associated with smoke and rain. The kiln burns azure, and it takes time for the rain to have the right humidity and temperature to fire—so I waited for the rain with a little anxiety and anticipation, and waited for the rain to pass in front of the burning kiln, and for you to knock on my patina knocker; I am so anxious, I hope you will come early, but I am afraid that you will be in a hurry.
When I think of Tianqing, I always think of smoke and rain, and when I think of smoke and rain, I always think of West Lake
It coincides with the rainy season, and the West Lake is misty and rainy
The humanistic meaning of "green" is extremely heavy, no matter which color is green, black or blue, its meaning carries the metaphor of Chinese imagery.
But we can still find a near-miraculous blue in nature – Lake Zarhan.
Zarkhan Salt Lake
The beautiful color comes from the minerals in the brine
Zarkhan Salt Lake, a salt lake in the western part of Qinghai Province in China, is located in the southern part of the Qaidam Basin, and is the largest salt lake in China.
"Zarhan" is a Mongolian word meaning "salt", with a sodium reserve of about 55.52 billion tons, accompanied by magnesium, lithium, boron, iodine, potassium and other minerals, creating the turquoise color of the salt lake.
Zarkhan Salt Lake
The clash between "verdant" and "verdant".
Just like the green apple gems of different shapes on the white jade platform, reflecting the blue "blue sky" above the head, "verdant dripping" and "only this green" - these descriptions are placed here, and they also complement each other.
"Green" is really rich in the context of the mainland. It seems to be different from the color of daily life, biting between the lips or having a literary atmosphere, "Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat and green" - Qingjian, it is indeed literary.
Bamboo slips
"Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat and sweat"
In ancient times, when writing on bamboo slips, it was necessary to first roast the bamboo with fire to remove the wetness, and then scrape off the green part of the bamboo to facilitate writing and prevent moth. The water of the bamboo roasting fire seeps out, just like the green bamboo sweating under the fire, so it is called "sweat green". The cyan bamboo has since left a connection with the "green history".
Summer is perfect for viewing bamboo. The breeze blows into the labyrinthine forest, "into the bamboo ten thousand poles slanted", the bamboo leaves hit each other, and the crisp "簌簌" is endless. The sunlight cannot break through the dense bamboo leaves, so it can only patrol outside the bamboo forest, and the temperature in the bamboo forest will naturally drop.
Shunan Bamboo Sea
White mist and golden sunlight
The most famous of the Bamboo Sea is the Shunan Bamboo Sea located in Yibin, Sichuan. Broad and dense, blue waves are thousands of acres, peaks and mountains, waterfalls and jade are broken, and the literati and Mobao are like weaving downstream.
Water and bamboo, roads and mountains. The large pieces of cyan are full of life, and listening to the whispers of the bamboo sea, the mind and eyes are well rested.
Shunan Bamboo Sea
In the shade under the trees, bamboo sunflies will grow
It's lovely, but even tastier
Summer is intense
The almost thick green painted the ground
Let every life burst out as far as the eye can see
The background color of your and my life is infected
Let the pale dye green, let the light powder ripen thoroughly, and let the withered yellow come back to life
Let's go
Don't let the bright colors of you grow pale
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Author: Geography Jun
Editor: Pan Xi
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