Now make a systematic distinction between the most popular glaze colors:
Red includes purple: sacrificial red, Ji red, Ji Hong, drunk red, chicken red, ruby red, vermilion, bright red, bright red, smeared red, coral, rouge water, carmine, pink, beauty sacrifice, cowpea red, peach blossom wave, peach blossom piece, begonia red, baby face, beauty face, Yang Fei color, light eggplant, cloud bean, all purple, eggplant purple, grape purple, rose purple, suckling mouse skin, persimmon red, jujube red, orange red, alum red, turn red, meat red, sheep liver, pig liver, apple green, apple green both are red, so not into the green category, but into the red category.
Cyan includes blue and green: azure, east green, bean green, bean color, pear green, egg green, crab shell green, shrimp green, felt package green, shadow blue, blue and white purple, new orange, melon peel green, brother green, fruit green, peacock green, green feather, mother and son green, spinach green, parrot green, okra green, pine green, grape water, West Lake water, cumulus blue, sprinkle blue, sapphire blue, glass blue, caviar blue, smear blue, sea rat color, turtle skirt, brown green, pink brown.
Yellow: goose yolk, egg yolk, beeswax yellow, chanterelle yellow, caviar yellow, light yellow tooth color, gold sauce, sesame paste, tea powder, snuff, vegetable tail, eel skin, yellow-brown, old monk's clothes.
Black: black, ink, black, bronze, dark brown, iron brown.
White: moon white, fish belly white, tooth white, fill white.
If these colors are distinguished by system, there are really a lot of things, but in a nutshell, they are nothing more than the words "light" and "dark". Junzi is the oldest, but there is a difference between grape purple and rose purple. In the Yuan Dynasty, the purple glaze was similar to the color of pig liver, and there were similar to the color of grapes. The sacrificial red of the Ming Dynasty is also divided into two kinds: one is ruby red, also known as big red, and the merchants are mixed with Lang kiln; One is bright red, which is also known as the red in Xiang Zijing's "Porcelain Illustration".
The red color is derived into smeared red, jujube red, orange red, pork liver, sheep liver, eggplant purple, and cloud bean; Bright red evolved into rouge water, beauty sacrifice, cowpea red, peach blossom chips, baby face, and Yang Concubine color, all of which were divided by one dark and one shallow. The cowpea red is transformed into an apple, the dark one is called apple green, the light one is called apple green, and the dull one is called suckling rat skin. As for orange red, there is a difference between a wide orange and a blessing orange; Eggplant purple has the difference between dark eggplant and light eggplant. It can be said that the branches are luxuriant and the sects are full of sects, all because of the curiosity and competition, the new and different.
The ethereal porcelain of the Jin Dynasty and the green porcelain of the Tang Dynasty are very old. Then Zhou Chai Shizong's rain over the azure, is really to follow its track, the Northern Song Dynasty Bianjing's Dongqing followed, Ru kiln's bean green inheritance, these are celadon precedent. The brother kiln evolved into bean green, and the brother kiln evolved into fruit green. As for the green colors such as melon skin, peacock, mother and child, spinach, and parrot, they are the varieties they breed.
The light colors include okra, pine flowers, grape water, and West Lake water. The color is dull, there are crab shells, turtle skirts, and felt-wrapped greens. In this way, the deep blue ones include sapphire blue, sprinkle blue, etc.; The light ones are sky blue, gray blue, etc. In addition, yellow and black are all available in several shades of color. The word "shallow and deep" can be divided into two major tributaries, and become a general confluence.