Color artistic conception in ancient poetry

There are many poems describing colors in China's ancient poems:

"The children scrambled to catch up with Huang Die, but they couldn't find broccoli."

(Yang Wanli's "New Town Xugong Store") With the compatibility of yellow, the instantaneous scene of life is dialectically interpreted through movement and concealment, which makes people laugh and poetic. "Stop and sit in the maple forest late, and the frost leaves are red in February."

(Du Mu's Mountain Walk) Examining the unique colors of maple leaves in late autumn reflects the author's abstract thinking on autumn colors, autumn flavors and autumn rhymes. "Tian Jie is small and moist as crisp, and the grass is near and not far. The most important benefit is the spring of the year, which is better than the willow. "

(Han Yu's "Eighteen Members of the Water Show Department in Early Spring" has written the most special seasonal characteristics of natural green through the unique grasp of the most wonderful willow color and grass color in the year of tobacco, showing warm praise for the spring color and its vitality in the vigorous period.

"Hundreds of mountains have no birds, and thousands of paths have no footprints. A boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow. "

(Liu Zongyuan's Jiang Xue) Snow white is the basic color throughout. The cold snow and bleak climate characteristics show the great disharmony and high-intensity conflict between fishermen and their surrounding environment.

In terms of color application, ancient landscape poems pay special attention to the coordination and contrast of different natural colors, which clearly reflects the influence of the "golden mean" in China traditional culture. Warm colors make people feel gorgeous, orange is the warmest color, red and yellow are warm colors, and red, purple and yellow are neutral and slightly warmer colors; And cool colors give people a simple feeling. Purple and green are neutral and slightly cold colors, blue-purple and blue-green are cool colors, and blue is extremely cold. The colors used by poets are basically not cold tones and warm tones, but mainly the coordination and contrast between neutral tones, which is the best proof that the golden mean affects the aesthetic trend of poets' colors.

Red and green are a pair of high-purity complementary colors, and the contrast effect formed by complementary colors is the strongest and most exciting. If the area proportion relationship is handled properly, it will often achieve good results with strong contrast and rich harmony. "I know, I know, it should be green, fat, red and thin."

Li Qingzhao's ci vividly depicts the contrast between red and green; "Spring Garden can't be closed, and an apricot is out of the wall."

(Ye Shaoweng's Happy Garden) Showing red and hiding green not only shows the prominence and dazzling of red, but also implies the harmonious collocation and contrast of red and green, which complement each other. "The next day, the lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are of different colors."

(Yang Wanli's "Seeing Lin Zifang at Dawn in Jingci Temple") A large area of neutral and slightly cool green is set off by high-brightness red, with rich and harmonious tones, which gives people a full and warm aesthetic experience in this farewell poem.

Including red and green, the two contrasting colors will have a strong sense of harmony between cold and warm, but the color collocation is also quiet, giving people a full enjoyment of beauty. "At sunrise, the flowers in the river are red, and in spring, the river is as green as blue."