The historical origin of Huang

In ancient China, yellow was a noble color, but later it became derogatory because of the influence of this article. /kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, Pulp Fiction in Britain often used yellow covers, and later yellow became erotic.

We often use "yellow" to refer to something with obvious pornographic meaning, which has been established by everyone. As long as a thing is labeled "yellow", it is often the object of "sweeping" and "beating". However, in ancient China, yellow was an extremely noble color, which was used by the royal family and was not allowed to be used by ordinary people. The change and transformation in the middle is mainly influenced by the west.

From 65438 to 0894, a magazine named Yellow Magazine was founded in Britain, and a group of novelists, poets, essayists and painters with literary tendencies at the end of the century formed a literary group called "Decadence School" around the magazine. Their works are sometimes a bit pornographic, but they are not obscene.

However, on April 3 of the following year, O.Wilde, a famous British playwright, was arrested on charges of homosexuality. An incident that happened when he was arrested greatly damaged the reputation of the magazine. At that time, the newspaper said that Wilde had a yellow magazine under his arm when he was arrested, so people took it for granted that this magazine was as notorious as Wilde. The next day, someone demonstrated in front of the publisher of the yellow magazine and smashed the window glass with stones.

In fact, on the day of Wilde's arrest, the book under his arm was the novel Love of God by French writer Bill Louis. It happened that this novel, like many cheap novels in France at that time, had a yellow cover. This kind of novel is called "Yellow Back", which is also unpretentious.

"Yellow Magazine" and "Yellow Back" all associate "yellow" with concepts such as sex, pornography and bad habits. But at the same time, the American newspaper industry on the other side of the ocean has another "yellow" scene.

At that time, new york's Le Monde and Daily were frantically competing for circulation. First, J Pulitzer bought Le Monde and won the largest circulation newspaper in the United States with vivid and sensational reports and attacks on political corruption. 1895, W.R. Hearst, the son of a mining magnate, bought Le Monde's rival Daily, and his tactics were even worse. He even hired a painter who painted the comic strip "Yellow Man" for Sunday World News. At that time, the two newspapers widely used banner headlines, colorful cartoons and a large number of pictures to cater to readers. This period is called "yellow news" period.

This is the "yellow" in the west-pornography and kitsch are considered low-level things.