Traditional Chinese color: Purple juice

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-01-29

Purple juice, one of the traditional Chinese colors of purple. It is the color of mulberry juice.

Mulberry (sāng shèn[1]) is also known as mulberry, the ripe fruit of the mulberry tree, and is the spike of the mulberry plant. It is also known as mulberry seed, mulberry cane, mulberry date, mulberry fruit, mulberry paoer, black tree, etc. Farmers like its ripe fresh fruit to eat, sweet and juicy, is one of the fruits that people often eat.

Tang Xu Daofu wrote "The Great Six Ren Heart Mirror": Ding Ren hexagram: The fire in the south is afraid of the water in the north, so Ding Mei is matched with Ren. Xia Wangding came to return to C, when the mulberry was ripe, when the purple green, Xia Ding fire was pregnant with the water tire to the C fire, and the water black fire was mixed with red and black to form purple, so the mulberry was purple.

There are also records of "mulberry purple" in many ancient poems:

Song Luyou: The fisherman wears a basket on the river, a new volume of Fan Lijing. The mulberry in the lush forest is purple, and the rice seedlings on the water surface of the mango are green.

The color of mulberries is green when they are not ripe, and gradually the color changes to white and red, and the color of the mulberries after ripening is purple-red or purple-black, and the taste is sweet and sour. It can be eaten fresh, dried or slightly steamed and dried for food or medicinal purposes, and its dried taste is sweet and sour. The "New Edition of Materia Medica" records: "The purple one is the first, the red one is second, and the green one is not available." As the saying goes: "Qingming to, mulberry leaves green;."Gu Yu.

The color of mulberry fruit ** is anthocyanin, which is water-soluble and will dissolve when encountering water, so "mulberry juice purple" is not dyed with mulberry fruit juice as a dye. Instead, it is dyed with lac red and sapona. Another method is to use indigo as a base first, and then use sumac or madder with alum to dye it.

This purple is a bit reddish. It's the color of juicing, not black and purple mulberry fruit.

Mulberry purple is also one of the colors of the small full solar term. The most April day in the world, cherry red to mulberry purple!

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