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Ancient color names

For red. It's called pink, which is light red. Nicknames: Princess color, Yang Fei color, ChristianRandPhillips color; Princess red: ancient "princess", pink. Yang Fei, ChristianRandPhillips and pink are synonyms. Pink, the color of peach blossoms.

The yellow title is ginger: turmeric is the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the rhizome of turmeric, a ginger plant. Also refers to a person's face is not straight, yellow and white. Color: light yellow. Orange: A mixture of red and yellow.

Brown: a term for dark brown. Brown-black: dark brown; Reddish brown: reddish brown. ; Brown: light brown. Ochre: a red pigment similar to ochre, which was used by the ancients to modify ochre: red, reddish.