The first exclamation of the Year of the Rabbit belongs to the "new color trend" of the Spring Festival Gala show "Man Ting Fang·National Color"

  Beautiful Chinese color, blooming cultural confidence that has passed through the millennium

  Meihong, Juyi, Quchen, Xiangye, Hanyu, Huanghuang, Jialuo, Yuebai, Tianpiao, Qingli, Daizhe, Ningyezi, Yuanshandai... Dance is language, music is rhyme, elegant Interpreting the oriental charm of traditional Chinese colors, in recent days, the creative program "Man Ting Fang·National Colors", which appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Rabbit, dominated the hot searches and swept the Internet with its intriguing beauty.

"Chinese colors can be seen for thousands of years, amazing years", "the color matching of the ancestors is absolutely perfect", "romantic belonging to the Chinese"... The public's love for traditional Chinese colors can be glimpsed from the sincere messages of netizens.

  The elegant Chinese antique look is a unique vocabulary of Chinese traditional culture.

They are far more than just colors, but also carry the way Chinese people look at the world, behind which lies the aesthetic genes and classic wisdom of the Chinese nation that have been passed down for thousands of years.

Therefore, the great Chinese color "out of the circle" with "Man Ting Fang·National Color" not only ignites the current "new color trend", but also has a long and profound Chinese traditional cultural heritage as a strong support Cultural confidence.

  From the popular "Yanxi color system" to the hot searched "Palace wall red", Chinese colors silently release the charm of traditional culture

  The "out of the circle" of Chinese colors has actually been traced in recent years, and "Man Ting Fang·National Colors" is just a burst of success.

Jay Chou's popular song "Blue and White Porcelain" sang "the blue sky waits for the misty rain", which made many people fascinated by the picturesque and mysterious sky blue after the rain.

The popular TV series "Story of Yanxi Palace" has a gentle and advanced "Yanxi color system", which is a complete set of traditional Chinese color systems that are suitable for both shades and beauty.

The dance drama "Only This Green", which has toured hundreds of performances in many places across the country, uses the unique green color in the famous painting "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" through the ages to awaken the Chinese people's aesthetic experience.

  The public's pursuit of Chinese colors has even spanned thousands of years, and it is connected with today's daily life.

The Guofeng lipstick, which is frequently sold out, is inspired by the colors of Langjiao Hong, Carmine, and Beauty Ji, all of which come from Chinese colors.

The "Chinese trendy color" filter favored by young people in the photo editing app is inseparable from the wisdom contributed by many traditional Chinese colors.

For the New Year of the Rabbit, many of the most searched places on the "Little Red Book" point to the graceful and majestic Gongqianghong, such as the Forbidden City in Beijing, Deoksugung Palace in Hangzhou, Guangfulim in Shanghai, and Wuhou in Chengdu. The temple and so on are all like this.

  According to Hu Jianjun, an associate professor at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, the era of revival of traditional culture is coming.

"On the one hand, a group of high-quality film and television works of literature and art, and art exhibitions play an important guiding role. They all create a peaceful, elegant, and rich aesthetic based on the national color, and release the essence of traditional culture in a subtle and silent way. Charm. On the other hand, in the fast age, more and more people who are good at introspection sincerely perceive that what has been accumulated over time is high-end and directly touches people’s hearts.”

  The profound cultural connotation behind the aesthetic gene goes beyond color and becomes the most intriguing part of Chinese color

  When pursuing Chinese color, what exactly should we pursue?

  From the visual point of view, many Chinese colors can find corresponding parameters in the internationally used Pantone color card.

Hu Jianjun pointed out that the uniqueness of Chinese colors lies in the cultural connotation carried by the concept of color.

Only in the cultural history can Chinese color art gain complete meaning.

It turns out that different from the classification of the three primary colors in the West, Chinese ancient colors follow the "view of five colors".

This color concept is gradually integrated and developed by combining elements such as "Yin Yang and Five Elements Theory". It is not an independent existence of meditation. It can correspond to heaven and earth, yin and yang, directions, seasons, and sounds. It is also related to the five internal organs, five tastes, and five qi. and movement.

From personal living habits and preferences to national ceremonies, the ancients advocated the use of different colors in different seasons to match the atmosphere of the universe.

  There are as many as 526 kinds of Chinese colors collected on the "Chinese Color" website, and the richness is far beyond people's imagination.

Many of the colors are quite subtle, presenting a subtle and elegant sense of high-end, properly grasping the unique romance of the Chinese.

Cultural scholars Guo Hao and Li Jianming revealed the origin of 384 kinds of Chinese ancient colors in the book "Chinese Traditional Colors: Color Aesthetics in the Forbidden City".

For example, "Cangzhu" is the greenish green of bamboo when it is born in spring, "Moonbai" is the bluish white under the moonlight, "stealing blue" is the beginning of autumn and a little blue in the clear sky in autumn, and "Haitianxia" is the color of the sea under the brilliant clouds. The layer of light red that the clouds and the sky are dyed.

It can be seen that Chinese colors are derived from the creation of all things in the world, which makes people admire the perception and imagination of the ancients.

  Throughout the ages, Chinese colors have also been fixed in utensils, paintings and buildings from the flowing nature, allowing more people to capture such beauty.

The many colors of Chinese ceramics are very particular, including many meanings such as literature, aesthetics, and philosophy. Ma Weidu has elaborated on this in the book "The Color of Porcelain".

Like the famous Yongle Sweet White Glaze, the beauty lies in the word "sweet".

This is entirely a subjective feeling. After subtracting all impurities that may affect the color, a transparent glaze is applied on the white as jade kaolin in Jingdezhen to make it white.

The most mysterious treasure in the prosperous Tang Dynasty - secret color porcelain, which was specially used for the royal relatives and relatives of the Tang Dynasty. It is like a beauty covered with a veil.

Among the 14 pieces of secret-colored porcelain unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple, there is a secret-colored blue that "cleverly scoops out the bright moon to dye spring water, gently swirls thin ice to fill green clouds".

As for the mysteries of colors in traditional Chinese painting, as early as in the monograph "A Study of Colors in Chinese Painting" first published in 1959, Yu Feian, a famous modern meticulous painter, dismantled them one by one.

He pointed out that ancient Chinese painters were not only good at using color, but also used their wisdom to make the paint cling to the silk so that it would not fall off after many years of unrolling.

Only in this way can there be the light red hibiscus flower and the colorful golden pheasant in Song Huizong's "Golden Pheasant of Furong", and Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" made by using big green and green on both sides to dye the sky and water.

  The beautiful Chinese color from life has traveled through thousands of years and still has unique charm. The industry expects that it can better decorate today's beautiful life after "out of the circle".

(Our reporter Fan Xin)

  (Source: Wen Wei Po, 5th Edition, January 30, 2023)