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What color is tea white?

Tea white refers to white like tea.

Tea is a bitter herb in ancient books, and now it has the white color of bloom. "Zhou Lishu Flower Wang Gong Ji Bao Ren" has: "Leather, want to be white, but sick; If you want it to be smooth and fat, you need it. "

China's traditional chromatics has obvious subjective images and a cultural atmosphere of "expressing meaning by color", with cyan, magenta, yellow, white and black as positive colors and colors blended with positive colors as intermediate colors, and each color is usually given an elegant name as a literary model.

Western chromatics is a rigorous natural science system. Based on the seven-color spectrum of white light decomposition and the three color attributes of lightness, purity and hue, each refined color is assigned a color card number.

The traditional colors of China are called:

Tea white, plum dyed, Ceylon, chestnut, thin persimmon, Long Yan, water chestnut, crow green, moonlight white, rouge, Ruocao, Sufang, Tianshui Bi, sunset purple, relaxed smoke, distant mountains like Dai, Oriental white.