When it comes to Chinese colors, the first thing that comes to mind may be the dress of different colors.
As Zhang Ailing wrote in her book, Wang Jiazhi's electric blue water-stained satin knee-length cheongsam in "Lust, Caution", the moon-white cicada winged yarn cheongsam with white tassels in "Love in a Fallen City", and Cao Qiqiao's rose red silk robe in "The Golden Lock". Rouge, moon white, stone blue, pine flower yellow ......
Different traditional Chinese colors are uniquely named.
Why is the traditional Chinese color so named?
Since the Tang Dynasty, the ancients used the word "color" as a general term for the colors of nature, giving colors the names of all things in nature.
Different from the Western classification of the three primary colors, China divides the five colors"Red, yellow, blue, black, white".It is the true color that the ancients saw with the naked eye: spring green, summer red, autumn gold, winter ink.
The seasons go by, and the colors are also changing in the ever-changing.
The recently launched documentary "The Great Chinese Colors" uses traditional Chinese colors as the starting point to show the worldview of colors.
Starting from color, it can be traced back to the unique emotional expression of the Chinese, as well as the oriental aesthetic that has lasted for thousands of years.
Through the promotion of artists, interpretations and interviewers, the documentary gives everyone the cultural story of color.
Each traditional color contains historical and cultural connotations, and behind it is the way the ancient Chinese observed and recorded the world.
RougeAs a commonly used lipstick for women in ancient China, its crimson hue is bright and moving, and it has a calm and noble temperament.
It not only conforms to the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept, but also represents the makeup and love of ancient women.