The elegance of the ancients can be seen from the naming of colors. Unpopular but stunning color names include plum dye, tea white, mint, lotus root, duckweed, crow green, rouge, snow green, Su Fang, Xiang color, etc.
1. Plum dyeing?
Plum dyeing, as the name suggests, is a natural dyeing method that uses plum blossom trees as dyes. The color created is also called plum dyeing, which is plum dyeing. ?
2. Tea white?
Tu white refers to the white color like tea. Tea is a kind of bitter vegetable in ancient books, and now it also has the white color of tea blossoms. ?
3. Persimmon?
Persimmon is a light persimmon color dyed with persimmon lacquer. In the middle and late Edo period of Japan, persimmon-colored curtains and white persimmon footbags were very popular. The color of the thin persimmons is like those of immature persimmons hanging on the branches, waiting for someone to pick them for dye with their own hands. ?
4. Lotus root
Nowadays, we often use the color "lotus root" to describe the color of clothes, and some plots in "A Dream of Red Mansions" also describe this color. Wang Xifeng sent Daiyu a lotus root color flower tent. From this look, the lotus root color is the color of purple with pink.
5. Hesitation?
Many people can’t figure out what color hesitation is. If you know that azalea is also known as mountain hesitation, its color will naturally be clear. ?
6. Crow green?
A traditional Chinese color term, the color of crow feathers. That is black with purple-green light color. This crow-green color looks extremely beautiful even if you look closely. ?
7. Rouge?
Rouge color is the color of blood. The scriptures tell of the sun and the moon, the beauty of the spring and autumn, and how many poems about beauty and rouge have been left behind.
8. Snow Green
The color name "Xue Qing" sounds very beautiful when you hear it, and the word is also easy to interpret. With the word "Snow", it also gives people a sense of "snow". It looks bluish-white, but in fact it is a kind of purple.
9. Sufang
The color of Sufang comes from the dye color of Sufang wood, which is an important red dye.
10. Xiangse
Xianse has been used as a color word since at least the Han Dynasty and became more common after the Tang Dynasty. It is the color of light yellow silk and is often used to describe silk.