It's Christmas, and many places have a Christmas atmosphere. But there is a phenomenon that seems to be more popular than our traditional Christmas color schemes and decorative designs
The Christmas color scheme looks better than the traditional color scheme of the New YearWe all know that Christmas decorations are mostly designed in red and green. And under the condition that the world has the same classic color scheme of red and green, Christmas seems to be more popular, and some people even feel that the Christmas color scheme is much better than the Spring Festival. The decorations and colors of Christmas are considered to be very foreign, while the colors and patterns of the traditional Chinese New Year are regarded as rustic and tacky.
But is that really the case?The Christmas color scheme is better than the traditional color scheme of the New Year
The reason for this look is that the red and green colors of Christmas reduce the brightness and are more visually soft. It is not difficult to find that the red of Christmas is different from our common red, it is darker, more inclined to rose, burgundy, etc., and the green is not bright emerald green but peacock green or olive green.
As a contrasting color, red and green have a sense of coordination between cold and warm, and at the same time will not be excessively "noisy".
The combination of these two colors is not only common at Christmas, but also in Gucci's classic colorways. 
Most of the elements created by the red and green pairing of Christmas are simple and cute, and the red and green areas are appropriately matched. Whether it is a little Christmas old man, a little elk, or a small hat, a light ball, etc., all exude a high degree of affinity, and both men and women of all ages can get their direct and clear cuteness. And generally red and green will not appear in a large area at the same time, when one color is used more, the other will become an embellishment.
In order to make the red and green less dull, sub-gold and silver are often used as intermediate colors to divide and embellish, so that the overall color scheme can be more rich and flexible.
The design and design attached to the Christmas color are clear and highly ornamental.
Take the classic Christmas tree as an example, green is used as the base tone of a large area, and other red, indigo, and ** color decorations are decorated with smaller objects in a small area. The carrier of red and green is generally more textured, with a variety of shapes and a strong sense of freshness. The New Year's style is mostly based on folk customs. 
Christmas has gone from being a religious holiday to a commercial holiday. A large number of merchants have launched new designs on Christmas Day, coupled with the exotic atmosphere that comes with Christmas, even the common colors of red and green will also come with buff filters. 
But it doesn't mean that foreign red and green are good-looking, there are also good-looking red and green in China's traditional color matching, and whether red and green are high-grade or not, it depends on the matching skills. 
used to say "red with green, race bullshit", why is it foreign now?Speaking of red and green, our first impression of it is mostly a cheesy combination of big red and emerald green.
This is because of the visual stimuli generated by the high saturation of large areas of red-green hedging.
And the red and green color scheme of Christmas color makes people feel very comfortable, and the reason has been explained earlier.
In fact, in ancient China, there were many applications of red and green color matching, and they were relatively advanced, and there was no sense of tackiness. This is because the desaturated red with green is more advanced. In resource-poor antiquity, dyes were not easy to obtain, and dark-colored or multi-colored clothing was associated with status and rights.
Under the long-term aesthetic regulation, if red and green are bright and enhance contrast, it will be considered vulgar, and low-saturation colors will make people feel more advanced. The area occupied by coordination can weaken the contrast, which is also the reason why it looks good. When painting the red peony in full bloom, the red occupies a large area, dotted with green, giving people the feeling of enthusiasm. And if the green occupies a large area of the painting, then a little red in the green bush will give birth to a refreshing and tranquil.
Both can be the protagonists, but if the area is the same, they will hedge against each other, and it will be unbearable. After the attention is diverted, the red and green will no longer be abrupt when they reappear.
The red and green colors are also separated by other colors as "intermediate colors". The so-called intermediate color is actually the color that separates the two colors in the middle of the color card, like "red" and "green" on the color card, the intermediate color is "orange" and "yellow". In our Hanfu design, it is very common to use yellow as an accessory. Whether it is a tie or an inner lining, it breaks the main color situation of pure contrast between red and green, making the whole more vibrant.
It can be seen that even if it is a red and green color, it may not necessarily be cheesy.
Do we really understand the high level of Chinese color matching?Is the traditional Chinese New Year color scheme really cheesy?In fact, the traditional colors of China have a high-level collocation rule that is linked to our culture.
Most of the colors of the Chinese New Year reduce the brightness of the colors, so even the brighter colors will not look too tacky. Red is naturally the most festive color of the New Year, and most of the common decorative latte patterns in the Spring Festival are ochre and brown. It is then paired with gold or other auspicious colors such as blue and yellow.
In terms of the color matching of the Chinese New Year, the traditional colors of China are based on the spontaneous color, so there will be no particularly bright and exciting colors. Focus on the inherent color of the object, and use the color of the object itself to contrast and set off each other, so as to achieve the effect of harmonious and unified color of the picture. For example, the shaping of the God of Wealth uses tooth color and yellow dan (you can also only use yellow dan) as the background color to set off red. In this way, it not only satisfies the center of the subject, but also has a mutual echo with the contrasting colors.
During the Chinese New Year, it is also one of the few times when you can see a purple color, which is originally a color that symbolizes high class. It has a very high level in traditional Chinese colors, and in the Song Dynasty, it symbolized the pinnacle of power, so it is missing in the folk decorative color. In addition, purple has a certain religious mystical color, and only appears in the images of gods and powerful.
In addition, purple is rare and expensive, and most of the ones we see are close to purple Qinglian, Qinghua, etc. In addition, the hook edge, the basic means of configuration, makes the transition between colors more soft, and the pattern and material correspond to each other. For example, the light-colored edging used when the color of the pattern is compared with the background, and the dark edging of the pattern on the golden background, etc., which can be seen on all kinds of decorative paintings and red envelopes.
The colors of many New Year's decorative paintings use the technique of overlapping halos, and the colors are more layered. The method of overlapping halos is generally from light to dark, and then dark to press the center. For example, the common shaping of flowers and birds is from the outside to the inside, one by one, and the deeper and deeper. The birds and animals outside the flowers, many insects and butterflies, are mostly painted on the white powder with ochre. The same is true of the Nine Fish Diagram, which is often used as a "surplus every year", where the color of the lotus leaves is from light to dark, and the lotus flowers are "contrasting, transitioning, and setting off".
It is not the modern aesthetic that has the sense of color structure and decoration, and our use of color has been very unique since ancient times. China's understanding of primary colors was much earlier. The concept of "five-color view" was put forward by traditional Chinese folk, which was more than 1,000 years earlier than the "seven-color view" and "three primary colors" in the West.
Our color rule is to emphasize grade.
That is, the first level: (heaven and earth) Xuan, Huang;Level 2: (five directions) blue, red, yellow, white, black;**: pentagonal color) green, red, blue, purple, yellow;Level 4: Interchromatic (variegated). Many traditional color schemes follow this color scale.
For example, the cloisonné four-color horse bowl basically follows the second-level color configuration, with blue, white, red, and yellow missing due to the royal ban, but brown replaces black.
Color matching techniques are based on colors as seen in the real world. For example, yellow-green locust flower juice, snail green, and lead powder are used as the background color to set off the green. To a certain extent, realism but disdain for pure realism, this is the advanced freehand of the ancestors.
Our color matching rules have a deep connotation and origin, and if we study the matching carefully, we can also produce high-end Chinese color works. 100 help plan