Why is red and black color in lacquerware?

The color language and color style of lacquer ware is extremely remarkable and unique, which takes black and red as the basic colors for decorative beard painting, with vermillion patterns on a black background and black patterns on a red background. This color scheme almost from the lacquer began to produce a natural establishment, which has its own certain reasoning: on the one hand, we see from the visual effect, red is mainly modulated with the mineral cinnabar, bright saturated strong hue, is colored in the highest purity of the color; and the black appears to be broad, broad and robust, is the lowest brightness of the color. This pair of high purity and low brightness color matching, deep and not dull, luxurious and not flamboyant, very in line with the aesthetic requirements of the Chinese people. On the other hand, red and black with valued not only because of its simplicity in the show gorgeous, but also because the Chinese people respect the concept of black and red, this concept has a certain connection with the five elements of color. "Red", the color of the sun, and with the five elements in the fire corresponds to the sun everything can survive, with the fire can be driven away from the beasts of the invasion in order to ensure life, it is because of this most instinctive need for life, so that our forefathers have a deep affection for the red and rely on, has always been regarded as red as the most auspicious color. Furthermore, the color characteristics of red and black in the mixing and use of lacquer has been fully developed, its color characteristics can fully represent and reflect the characteristics of the natural lacquer tough and soft and clean, other colors can not replace the value of these two colors of the function and visual effect.

Introduction of Lacquerware: Everyday utensils, crafts, and artworks made of lacquer coated on the surface of various artifacts are generally referred to as "Lacquerware". Raw lacquer is the natural sap cut from the lacquer tree, mainly composed of lacquer phenol, laccase, gum and water. It can be used as paint with special functions such as moisture resistance, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, etc., and it can be formulated with different colors of lacquer, which is brilliant. In China, the performance of lacquer has been recognized since the Neolithic Age and has been used in the production of tools. Throughout the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and up to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chinese lacquer craftsmanship continued to develop and reached a high level. Chinese artifacts such as choking and tracing gold have had a profound influence on Japan and other places. Lacquerware is an important invention of ancient China in chemical process and arts and crafts.