What do the five colors refer to

The five colors refer to: green, yellow, red, white, and black, which generally refers to the various colors in life.

1. The five colors in China refer to: yellow, green, white, red and black. Later referred to a variety of colors in general. These five colors from the yin and yang five elements doctrine, respectively, on behalf of wood, gold, fire, water, earth. At the same time, they symbolize east, west, south, north and center, which implies the five divine powers. It was invented and developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

2. Traditional Chinese colors are divided into two categories: positive colors and intermediate colors. Among them, the positive colors are green, red, yellow, white and black, collectively known as the five colors, and the rest are intermediate colors.

3. In China, the five colors have an extremely broad connotation. Whether it is the east, south, west, north and center of the five directions, gold, wood, water, fire and earth of the five elements, as well as the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys of the five viscera, all have their corresponding positive colors.

Introduction of the five colors:

1, a kind of porcelain glaze color. The so-called colored porcelain glaze, is fired on the glaze of the plain ware for painting, and then into the kiln by 600-900 ℃ temperature baked into a porcelain. Five-color refers to the distribution of multiple colors on the glaze of porcelain color - and five-color porcelain does not necessarily mean that only five colors on the glaze of porcelain, more or less than five kinds of color ceramics, in the customary also known as five-color porcelain.

2, five-color porcelain in the Ming and Qing dynasties was invented and developed, its formula after continuous innovation, and after a number of major reforms, before the emergence of red, yellow, green, blue, black, purple, etc., mainly colored porcelain.

3, five-color for the Ming and Qing Dynasties Jingdezhen kilns of new varieties, by the Song and Yuan glaze with color on the basis of development. No blue color in the Ming Dynasty, the need for blue performance, are to blue instead, called "blue and white", became a unique feature of the era, to Jiajing, Wanli five-color as a representative.

4, jiajing, wanli dynasty five-color application of color is characterized by: a large number of alum red glaze and underglaze blue and white two colors, underglaze blue and glaze a variety of colors combined with more black or russet color line outline of the pattern, the picture is heavy and colorful.

5, the Qing dynasty five colors to the Kangxi dynasty is most prestigious, in addition to the commonly used red, green, yellow, brown, purple color, but also the new formulation of the glaze blue instead of underglaze blue, gold and black color is also widely used, so that the color is more magnificent and colorful, rich and eye-catching.

6, the Kangxi five-color in addition to painted on white porcelain, but also in various colors of color glaze and a variety of porcelain on the color, making the five-color porcelain unique, unique: due to the Kangxi newly created pastel, five-color history, so the Kangxi five-color is also known as the "ancient color".

7, pastel is characterized by soft and soft color, commonly known as "soft color"; five colors of bright color, so the Kangxi five-color also known as "hard color". Yongzheng period, pastel prevalent, five-color tends to decline, see more small pieces of equipment, painting is more delicate, not like the Kangxi five-color rough and bold. After the Qianlong basically do not see a separate five-color porcelain, and more with pastel, enamel and so on and with.