What color is cyan?

Cyan is a color between green and blue in the visible spectrum.

From the perspective of chromatics, it is between green and blue. Rhetorically, it can mean green, black and blue. Blue should be a color between green and blue, that is, turquoise or turquoise. Cyan is the color between green and blue in the visible spectrum, belonging to the high frequency band of visible light in electromagnetic waves, with a frequency of 600-620 THz (corresponding to the wavelength of 500-485nm in the air), which is somewhat similar to the color of lake water.

Cyan, the original meaning of ancient times is blue, but in painting color, if blue is mixed with a small amount of green, it is called cyan (one of the three primary colors of subtraction), which has multiple levels. Similar to the color of jade. In the older generation, cyan was black. For example, "green purple robe" refers to the black clothes of ancient scholars. Green is between green and blue, but many words are easily mistaken for green, such as grass is green.

The meaning of cyan

The meaning of cyan needs to be perceived through the cultural memory and association of China people from generation to generation. Cyan is highly integrated with the unique culture of China people. China's cyan is a color that can arouse people's association with the characteristics of Chinese civilization. Cyan has a high degree of integration with the unique cultural heritage of China people, which is the color code for understanding the traditional culture of China.

From celadon to Tsing Yi, from painting to poetry, from artifacts to thoughts, every cyan in our life has a story, and behind these stories, there is a cultural trace of China history interwoven with warp and weft.