Chinese traditional color Tianshui pen

My son likes green very much. Recently, because all his good friends like blue, he turned to blue. I asked him:

He said: My favorite color is a little green and a little blue, but green is close to blue.

I smiled. He doesn't like Klein Blue, which is "shine on you is better than blue" recently, and he shouldn't like Mo Landi, which was popular some time ago. In other words, the words "Klein Blue" and "Mo Landi" make people feel as if they don't know what to say, which is far less vivid than the words described by our ancestors.

In fact, if my son is older and has seen the Youth Edition of China's traditional colors, he might give his favorite colors a better name and tell me whether he likes stealing blue, azure, oriental white or indigo.

I have been reading this book "Youth Edition of Chinese Traditional Colors" recently, and I can't put it down. Because:

The book Chinese Traditional Colors was written by Guo Hao, a cultural scholar. Guo Hao may be a little strange to us, but if you know that he has led the reconstruction projects of China's traditional aesthetics, such as weddings in the Forbidden City and cats in the Forbidden City, your impression of him may be different.

In this book, he takes 100 kinds of traditional Chinese colors as the starting point, giving children the initial enlightenment of color aesthetics.

The introduction of each color is divided into three parts-1part is a picture, through which we can intuitively understand the specific appearance of this color; The second part is the explanation, which will explain the naming and past life of this color from different angles such as history and culture. The third part is "know more", which is a bit like extending reading and slightly expanding to explain a specific knowledge.

However, the complete introduction of a color does not exceed four pages, which is neither cumbersome nor procrastinating, making people feel just right.

For example, when talking about the special color of "yellow and white swimming", it would be appropriate to suggest that yellow and white is enough, so why add the word "swimming" in particular?

And the author clearly pointed out that this poem by Tang Xianzu is simply the best answer to this question:

Tang Xianzu is not satisfied with his career. A friend advised him to visit his teacher in Huizhou to "manipulate" his promotion. He refused and wrote this poem. It seems to be handy, but it writes a life attitude that is not attached to the powerful.

For example, from the name, it seems that the color "yellow" is related to yellow. However, this color is actually a kind of red, which means that the sun falls below the horizon at dusk and refracts to the red and yellow corner of the horizon. Later, this color was actually related to the "wedding".

It turns out that the ancients thought that dusk was a time of day and night exchange and yin and yang communication, so it was very suitable for weddings. My hometown Hubei is used to holding a grand wedding at noon, but Shanghai seems to prefer to hold a wedding at night. I used to be puzzled by the custom of holding a wedding at night, but now it seems really reasonable.

For example, when it comes to color Obi. This book tells us that there were no green peonies before the Song Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, a family named Ou put medicine in the root of the tree and cultivated a very precious green peony. The color of green peony is Oubi.

When it comes to tooth color, I will talk about the color matching system in the Tang Dynasty. Three or more products are purple, four are dark, five are light, six are dark green and seven are light green. Moreover, Bai Juyi's poems of different periods and ranks are quoted, and children may smile when they read This Jiujiang Official. My blue sleeves are wet.

What's more, girls who like A Dream of Red Mansions will definitely feel particularly cordial when they see the introduction of Dasi in Tianhaixia. When I read this story before, I was curious why red was suppressed by black or cyan.

We often like to let our children read all kinds of books related to further education. In fact, I especially admire books such as traditional Chinese colors, which seem useless, but there is no pressure to read, and the allusions in them are all good materials. At the same time, it plays an aesthetic role, which is very advanced.