Traditional Chinese Colors

Traditional Chinese colors

1, Plum Dye

Plum Dye, as the name implies, is the use of the plum blossom tree as a dye for a natural dyeing method, and the resulting color is called Plum dyeing is called Plum Dye.

2, Tuan white

Tuan white is the white color of the crocus flower. In the ancient book is a kind of bitter vegetables, and now also have the white color of the flowering of the Tuanzhu.

3, thin persimmon

Thin persimmon is a light persimmon color dyed with persimmon lacquer. In the mid-to-late Edo period in Japan, kakimo-colored curtains and white kakimo footbags were very popular.

4, flushed

Colorful sleeves earnestly hold jade bell, the year spared the drunken face red. The two words "drunkenness" are just two words to think of the beauty of the slightly drunkenness, a reddish haze flying up to the top of the face of the demeanor.

5, crow green

Traditional Chinese color term, the color of crow feathers. That is, black with a purple-green light color. This crow green color is also extremely beautiful in detail.

6, rouge

Rouge color, that is, the color of blood. The book of the sun and moon, powder spring and fall, leaving how many poems about the beauty of rouge.

7, Tianshui Bi

Tianshui Bi, light green color. Ancient silk coloring name. It is said to have been dyed by the concubine of Li Yu, the later lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

8, Sufang

Sufang color derived from the Sufang wood, Sufang, is an important red dye, from the Sufang wood dye color. It also looks like a red bean color.

9, Bacchus Cream

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Bacchus Cream is from the bottom of the pot scraped off the remaining ash boiled to drink. The ash from the bottom of the pot is a layer as light as frost formed after hundreds of grasses were burned, so it was called Hundred Herb Cream.

10, after the rain

The sky green is the representative color of the Ru kiln, legend has it that you need to be burned in the rain and smoke in order to achieve. After the rain is also clear, the sky is still slightly cloudy green color.

11, light yellow

Light yellow as a color word at least in the Han dynasty, after the Tang dynasty, is the color of light yellow silk, mostly used to describe silk.

12, moon white

Moon white is a pale blue, the ancients believed that the color of the moon is not pure white, but with a thin ice-like tone. Moonlight white appeared in many works of literature, imagine a gentle girl wearing a moonlight white autumn dress with an umbrella standing in the rain, the picture is more beautiful.