Two steps from nobility to people's preference for black in Qin Dynasty

Collected the reasons why the nobles in Qin Dynasty preferred blacks, and published the following written materials for everyone. Let's have a quick look!

In real history, Qin people really like black. So, why do Qin people prefer black? What are the reasons why the nobles and the poor in the Qin Dynasty favored blacks? Let's take a look at these problems with school easy search.

Qin people advocate black. From aristocrats to civilians, even slaves and servants are dressed in black. The priests upstairs in the courthouse are all dressed in black. Even Tang Chao's decoration style is different from other countries, but the main color is black. There is a reason why Qin people are still black.

There is such a record in Hanshu compiled by historians in the Eastern Han Dynasty: Qin changed to Zhou Dynasty, and water was virtuous. Ewong? went hunting yesterday and won the Black Dragon. This is the advantage of water.

This passage means that Qin Wengong once caught a black dragon when he was hunting in his early years. This is the symbol of water virtue in the five elements. Therefore, the rulers of the state of Qin believe that water is a virtue and advocate water. In the five elements, the symbolic color corresponding to water and morality is black. Therefore, from the Qin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qin Empire that ruled the whole country, black was advocated.

The so-called theory of five elements and five virtues is an academic viewpoint put forward by Zou Yan, a Yin and Yang scientist of Qi State during the Warring States Period. It mainly refers to Jin Mu's five virtues represented by water, fire and earth. These five virtues are repeated to explain the rise and fall of dynasties. In costume dramas, when reading imperial edicts, it is always said that Fengtian is the carrier, and the emperor said. This tolerance refers to the fate represented by the five elements and five virtues.

Compared with the Qin dynasty, which advocated the virtue of water and liked black, later scholars thought that the Han dynasty was the virtue of fire. Therefore, sometimes, Han is also called like this. So the popular color in Han Dynasty is red.

Unlike other vassal States, the logistics supply of Qin State was provided by the state. Chyi Chin is supplied by the state. Qin's flag is black. Why use black as the color of the military flag?

To sum up, the reasons why the Qin Dynasty favored blacks from aristocrats to civilians were as follows: First, for cultural reasons, the virtue of the water king corresponded to blacks. Second, the black flag is easy to hide and resistant to dirt. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he took black as the national color of the Qin Dynasty.

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