Xun Zi said, "Blue comes from blue, and blue from blue." This phrase was later used to describe the superiority of the younger generations over the predecessors, and its original meaning contained the secret of color: "Qing" Is a color extracted from the green bluegrass, and it is bluer than the color of the bluegrass.
"Blue out of blue" is a more complex process: first of all, the picked bluegrass stems and leaves are placed in a clay pot and fermented. After a few days, filter out the grass leaves, add an appropriate amount of lime for stirring, and then filter out the impurities after it precipitates, forming indigo. Finally, the white cotton cloth is immersed in the dyeing jar to dye, and the blue printed cloth is dyed with indigo. Isn't that fun?
Although we live in a colorful world, we know very little about the secrets of color. This book "Explore with Wolly: The Color Book" is a book that reveals the secrets of color, which covers a lot of interesting trivia about color, including eight spreads, from eight aspects of the knowledge of color, namely:
A colorful world
We can create color
Why can we see colors?
Why are there different colors?
What can color be used for?
What can we do with color?
Colors that change magic
Colors mean a lot different things
Each spread contains a lot of interesting trivia, supplemented by vivid pictures, interesting interactions, and the knowledge of color is cleverly conveyed to the reader.
This book is produced by Woledge Studio, don't look at a name so foreign, in fact, it is a Chinese team, wolledge = wolly + knowledge, the founder graduated from fudan university Chinese department, the core team are from Shanghai famous universities, and in the fields of publishing, magazines, education and other fields, have rich experience. Wolledge Studio insists on making original children's humanistic literacy education content, has been deeply engaged in the industry for 6 years, and has published many best-selling children's books, such as: "Follow Wolly to the World", "Follow Wolly to China", "Follow Wolly to Explore" and so on.
The book is relatively large, larger than a4 paper, this design is very convenient to install a variety of interactive games in the book, the whole book is beautiful, interesting and material, very suitable for children to popularize science. When I took the book home, Toot was immediately drawn in and begged me to read it to her.
This is a book about color, and "having a good value" is reasonable. The whole book presents a very colorful scene, and when it comes to the knowledge of "what color can be used for", the picture is a mysterious and dreamy forest, where there are beautiful flowers, colorful mushrooms, and gorgeous peacocks...
When telling the meaning of color, the picture presents a variety of scenes: the ancient Chinese red wedding scene, the blooming pink peach blossoms, the mysterious and noble purple, the green full of life breath, etc., in the strong contrast and visual impact, let people experience the charm of color.
In addition, the materials selected in this book are very exquisite, and the works of many masters are presented in the book, which is full of a strong artistic atmosphere and has a high aesthetic taste.
When introducing blue, use Raphael's "Our Lady of the Canary" to talk about the preciousness of blue. Before the invention of chemical pigments, ultramarine pigments with gem color were very precious in the West, and usually only holy gods could be depicted in blue, so in Western culture, blue represented nobility, reason, sacredness and truth. Raphael's painting of the Virgin Mary is dressed in blue robes, noble and holy.
When talking about the influence of light and shadow on color, we use the French painter Monet's "Haystack" as an example. The Impressionist painter Monet painted two hay stacks, the hay stacks in the early morning, which appear pale yellow in the sun, the backlit parts dark brown, and the hay stacks dyed orange by the setting sun in the evening.
When reading science for children, they also let them appreciate the master's famous paintings, which can subtly let them establish a basic aesthetic and cultivate a higher aesthetic taste.
I say this book is interesting because there are so many interactions, flips, pulls, turnstables, experiments, etc., which make people enjoy it. Toot loves this book and is inseparable from these interesting interactions. Every time she opens a page, she will go to these "organs" to see where they can be pulled out and where they can be turned, and she will not turn the page without finding all the organs. This feeling of exploration also adds a lot of fun to reading.
She loves playing the chapter "Colors That Will Change Magic", and one of the games is like this: there are two orange circles, one on the purple and yellow background, pushing the book farther away, and the orange circle on the yellow background will turn purple. It's magical! While reading with Toot Toot, she enjoyed playing this game with me. Recently, she likes to be a little teacher, and one day, I saw her teaching doll pandas, opening this "Color Book", and doing experiments on toy pandas and demonstrating this color-changing game.
Toot also enjoys playing the game of apple color change. From morning to evening, apples take on different colors depending on the light. She would turn the hidden turntable herself, watch the apple change color, and test me, "Mom, what color is the apple now?" I was right, and she said, "You're awesome!" "Sometimes I deliberately get it wrong, and she corrects me. It was fun every time.
Many of the pages in the book are like puzzles, which is fascinating. Ask a question on the page, turn the question page to find the answer. For example: Do you know why the universe is black and the sky is blue? This is because there is no air in the sky, light cannot be scattered, so space is pitch black. The sky is blue, because there are many gas molecules in the atmosphere, dust, etc., after the sunlight enters the atmosphere, the blue light and purple light have a shorter wavelength, are blocked by particles in the atmosphere, continue to scatter in all directions, and finally enter our eyes, so the sky we see is blue.
Each page of the book has such an interaction, which not only improves the child's hands-on ability, but also inadvertently cultivates the child's observation ability, carefully verifies the scientific spirit, and makes reading more interesting.
This book covers all aspects of color and has a great density of knowledge. Not only do children benefit, but adults can grasp a lot of interesting trivia from the book. Speaking out is not afraid of being laughed at, I have learned a lot of things with my children in picture books and popular science.
Through this book, I discovered that many animals are colorblind in a way, and they see the world as very different from humans. Like what:
The dog can only distinguish between blue, yellow and purple, and the other colors are gray in its eyes, but the shades are different.
The world in the eyes of the fish is composed of red, green and blue, and they are all round, because the fish eye can see things within 180 degrees in front of it, while the human eye can only see 124 degrees, and the wide-angle lens is inspired by the fish eye and invented.
Also, in Spanish bullfighting, the bull is not provoked by the red, because the bull sees everything orange, and it is bigger and closer than the actual one. The bullfighter keeps shaking the red cloth, which makes the cow feel irritable and threatened, so it will rush over.
In addition, you can also read a lot of historical and cultural knowledge related to color from the book. For example: Why does purple represent nobility? Because in ancient Europe, people extracted purple from the glands of bone snails, about 12,000 bone snails can produce 1.4 grams of purple pigment, this raw material and artificial is really expensive, so purple is a very expensive color.
In China, before the founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, crossed the Hangu Pass, Guan Ling Yin Xi saw purple qi coming from the east and knew that there would be a saint to pass the pass, and sure enough, soon after, Lao Tzu rode a green bull. The idiom "Purple Qi Coming East" was born out of this story and is used to indicate auspicious signs.
Therefore, whether in the East or the West, purple has a mysterious and noble meaning, and is closely related to auspiciousness, wealth and nobility.
Knowledge points like this abound in the book. Children are in a stage of great curiosity, and these novel knowledge can satisfy their curiosity.
Our lives are inseparable from color, this "Color Book" with beautiful and interesting materials can allow readers to understand color more deeply, stimulate children's curiosity, and it is very worth reading with children.