What colors are commonly used in ancient palace buildings in China?

Red, the place where the main body of ancient palaces in China can get sunshine, is generally warm, especially vermilion. In shadows, more cool shades of blue and green are generally used to form a pleasant contrast.

In the representative palace buildings in China, most of them are decorated with very bright colors, the most typical one is "red walls and yellow tiles", which is almost the symbolic collocation of all palace buildings in feudal society in China.

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Take the architectural color art in Song Dynasty as an example. The architectural colors in Song Dynasty were influenced by Confucianism and Indian Buddhist culture, so the colors used were mainly stable and simple.

In the architecture of Song Dynasty, the typical architectural types are temples and pagodas. The colors used in this architectural style are very rich and reasonable, and the architectural color is mainly red, which fully shows the influence of mainstream religious culture on the architectural color decoration at that time.