Red and black with color symbolism

1, red and black with a special significance in China's traditional fine arts to explore, it is not difficult to see from the murals, ancient mankind has long had a strong sense of color, but from the existence of these ancient traces, the color used is only red and black, after which the two colors will be in the development of fine arts, occupies a great deal of dominance. Whether it is the splendor of the Tang Dynasty, or the Yuan Dynasty ink Huazhi, red and black have a lofty position.

2. The connection between traditional art and culture. This is to be from the hole Yingda sparse cited Liang Huang Kan said: is said to be green, red, yellow, white, black, five square positive color, a clear expression of the traditional five colors for the positive color, the ancients are the positive color and the four elephants associated with the five elements, as the positive color, red and black is laid down in the history of the Chinese art of the important position, carrying the cultural deposits and aesthetic value on behalf of the neatness, grandeur, generosity, stability and so on, heavy goods of the national importance of the character, the history of auspiciousness! Festive occasions will use red as the main color, for example, the Qing emperor in the "morning sun" power room wearing red court dress, and folk art in red to express joy to ward off evil spirits.

3, painting is the bulk of the category of Chinese art, there are many kinds, such as rock paintings. Mural painting, scroll painting and decorative objects with decorative paintings and lacquer paintings, and is now a complex relationship between the mutual development of mutual reference and maintain their own independent, mural painting in the North and South Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty period for the prevalence of red with basically all with heavy mineral pigments to be refined, such as cinnabar, silver vermilion, alum red and other pigments, nowadays mural paintings of pitch-black and dark part of the vermilion oxidation of the results of the original is bound to be opulent and magnificent, the black is black lacquer. Black is black paint.

4, in the category of calligraphy in addition to the red handwriting as an approval, only black occupies the main vein of calligraphy, consciousness and any font and for the right frame. Don't want to paintings in the ink color is can be rich change, ink color get not in a painting work is can have this big span, for the traditional art of calligraphy, the ink color agree only is the calligraphy of the earned, and then these are the historical inheritance of our country's culture, is the essence of our Chinese culture.