What is the color of the hemlock feather

The pinyin for hemlock feather is zhèn yǔ.? The color is a traditional Japanese color used to represent dove's feathers, which are a pale greenish-purple color mixed with gray.

The color has been popular as a fabric color for kimonos since the Meiji period, and is often used in kimonos and kimono accessories even in modern times. Hatoba is the base color, and the grayish color is called "Hatoba Mouse", while the purpleish color is called "Hatoba Purple".

Expanded Information:

Hatoba color is derived from the color of the turtle. p>The dove feather color comes from the color of the hemlock bird's feathers, which is a poisonous bird. Its feathers were put in wine to poison people.

The hemlock bird, which lives around Lingnan, is slightly larger than the eagle and has mostly purple feathers, while its belly and wing tips are green. The Pentateuchal Isonomy says its toxicity stems from the food he eats. Lingnan is full of snakes, and the hemlock bird feeds on these cold and loathsome animals. Of all snakes, the hemlock bird likes the viper best; of all poisonous snakes, the hemlock bird likes the ear viper best; of all ear vipers, the hemlock bird likes the pit viper's head best.

The most frightening thing about the hemlock bird is naturally its feathers. Hemlock wine, also called poisoned wine, was mentioned as early as in the Zuo Zhuan (左传). With the hemlock bird's feathers across the wine, the wine that contains a strong poison, is hemlock wine, drinking people immediately killed. Hemlock poison is colorless and tasteless, but the poison can be dissolved in the wine.

Of course, this is only an exaggerated legend, in fact, there are many poisonous wine is not just with the hemlock feathers across the wine, but in the wine at the same time mixed with some kind of poison (such as aconite, poisonous arrowwood, poisonous celery juice, etc.), but people customarily also called it hemlock wine.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Hemlock Bird