Ancient China on the color are how to call

One, the name of the red

Pink, that is, light red. Alias: Fei color, Yang Fei color, Xiang Fei color; Fei red: ancient with "scarlet", pink. Yang Fei color, Xiang Fei color and pink are synonymous.

Peach blush, the color of peach blossoms, slightly brighter than pink color. Begonia red, light purplish red, deeper than peach, is a very charming and delicate color.

Two, the name of the yellow

Turmeric: turmeric is the name of the traditional Chinese medicine. For the rhizome of turmeric in the ginger family. It also refers to the person's face is not correct, yellowish white. Yellowish color: light yellow.

Orange: a mixture of colors between red and yellow. Teal: a brownish-orange to light brown color that is slightly redder than chestnut.

Third, the name given to the dark brown color

Brown-black: dark brown; brown-red: reddish brown. ; brownish yellow: light brown. Ochre: pigment reddish as ochre earth, used by the ancients for decoration

Ochre: red, ruddy.

Fourth, the name given to the color green

Blue-green: bright lime green; greenish-blue: bright lime blue; emerald color: the lime green of the feathers of the emerald bird or the color of the emerald gemstone.

Duck egg green: pale greenish-gray, very pale lime green; crab shell green: dark gray-green; crow green: the color of crow feathers. That is, black with a violet-green light color.

Expanded Information

Traditional Chinese Colors

Duck Egg Green: also known as Duck Egg Green, a traditional Chinese color term for a pale greenish-gray, very pale lime green.

Blue green: word interpretation of turquoise, a Chinese word that usually means clear, translucent, and greenish. Also refers to one of the green color of emerald.

Ancient Color Allegory

Color can refer to the color presented on the surface of things, or it can refer to a tendency of thought and a certain mood, while color expresses people's beliefs, expectations and predictions of future life. "Color is personality" and "color is thought".

Traditional color is a cultural symbol with Chinese traditional flavor, China's inherent traditional color art including architecture, clothing, painting, sculpture, porcelain, lacquer, paper cutting, etc., so as to make it understand the knowledge of traditional color and feel the beauty of traditional color.

Scarlet (a color): scarlet, the name of the traditional Chinese color, a kind of red, brilliant crimson, bright red, red, crimson. Crimson English etymology is derived from the Sanskrit word krmi-ja, "red dye produced by insects" means.

Sources of Crimson

Han Yu's poem "Sending Cui XXVI Lizhi": "Sending another hundred feet of color, the crimson phase is in full bloom."

Julin's Outer History, the second three times: "Wan Xuezhai's face turned scarlet when he heard it."

The plants and animals considered named in the natural world are also mostly named using their own colors.

Lu Xun's "Asahi Yuzhi - Mr. Fujino": "When the cherry blossoms in Ueno are in full bloom, they do look like light clouds of scarlet."

Baidu Encyclopedia: Duck Egg Green, Crimson