What Chinese traditional items green

While it has been used in jewelry since ancient Egyptian times, 3,000 years ago, it does exist in the traditional Chinese color family and is a very pleasing color. In ancient times, it was called "wood-assisted thorn" and "mother-of-pearl green", and only after the 17th century was it renamed emerald, which has been used ever since. It is in fact only phonetic translation, and grandmother has nothing to do with the 10th century, the Liao Jin period began to have the Western region will be emeralds brought to sell, in exchange for such as silk, porcelain and other Chinese specialties. Tao Zongyi "Nancun dropout plowing record" contains: "back to the stone products are very much, help wood thorns, bright green."

Stone green, traditional Chinese painting and fresco important pigment color; color from malachite, thirteenth century B.C. Yin and Shang period into China, ancient people called "green green", "stone green", "green Luang Yu ". At the same time is also the ancient hope of their own immortality of the "immortal" one of the materials for alchemy (really a good hand S), and in order to protect the intellectual property rights of the formula is also called in cryptic terms "Qing Shen Yu". Compendium of Materia Medica", "stone green born in the copper pit, is the ancestral gas of copper. Copper gets purple sun gas and green, green for a long time into stone, called stone green. Fan Chengda "Gui Hai Yu Heng Zhi" said: "stone green seedling. Also out of the right side of the river there is copper, born in the stone."

Jadeite, originally the name of the bird, that is, Fei bird and kingfisher. Yang Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "foreign objects," recorded: "the kingfisher is shaped like a swallow, red and male said Fei Fei, green and male said Cui." Later found a mineral and similar, both red and green color, so it called "jade".