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Cinnabar is a traditional color name in China, which is between orange and red. Made of opaque cinnabar. Since ancient times, it has been used as rouge for powder application.

History:

Scarlet is one of the ancient colors used by human beings, and the evidence appeared in prehistory of China. Scarlet later spread to the Roman Empire, and Pliny Sr recorded that scarlet became very precious, and the price had to be set by the Roman government.

It was not until the 12 century that cinnabar spread all over Europe, and it was mostly used to decorate manuscripts with clay gold. Although the use of cinnabar did not become widespread, people began to use cinnabar more in the15th century.