What colors do Chinese painting pigments have?

Chinese painting pigments can be divided into natural pigments and chemical pigments, among which mineral pigments are the most common pigments in Chinese painting, and there are cinnabar, realgar, azurite, stone green, ochre, clay gold, mud sound, Taibai and so on in China. Plant pigments include cyanine and rouge. Chemical pigments include red, sky blue and deep red.

1, mineral pigment

At the beginning, the main pigments in traditional Chinese painting were processed and developed minerals, and the common pigments were cinnabar, realgar, azurite, stone green, ochre, clay gold, mud sound, Taibai and so on. Among them, azurite is mainly developed from azurite, and azurite is malachite.

2. Plant pigments

Later, it was found that plants can also be used as pigments, such as carmine, gamboge, as the name implies, and cyanine, a pigment developed from the leaves and stems of Malan. There is also magenta, which is developed from cochineal insects, but belongs to plant pigments.

3. Chemical pigments

The first two are traditional Chinese painting pigments in China, while chemical pigments are Chinese painting pigments synthesized by modern processing technology, and the colors are mainly red, sky blue, crimson, bright yellow and early red.