Our people especially like red, such as the famous director Zhang Yimou. In his early films, such as Red Sorghum, Red Lantern Hanging High, House of Flying Daggers and so on, he used a lot of red, which closely combined color conflict with folk culture and produced an aesthetic effect with visual impact. Zhang Yimou once said that it was the customs and habits of his hometown that deeply influenced him and made him prefer red.
How did red evolve in history? Where does its pigment come from? Is there any unknown secret behind it? Red: The art and science of color will give you the answer you want.
Red: The art and science of color is the work of Spike Bucklow, a senior researcher at Hamilton Kerr Institute of Cambridge University.
With the theme of "red", the author introduces in detail how human beings extract red pigment from animals, plants and minerals from ancient times to the present, as well as the production and development history of artificial and industrial red pigment, and discusses topics such as "red soil", "red blood" and "flourishing" derived from "red". It is an interesting, informative, good-looking and easy-to-understand popular science book.
Let's go into the red world together: the art and science of color, and explore the little-known truth behind red.
0 1 red was once a status symbol.
E. Bass von Wei Rannar said in his book "Fighting for Color":
"For everyone, red means life, love and enthusiasm. Both elements of life are red: heat from the sun and flame. "
In our country, the ancients thought that red was the color associated with the sacred earth. In the period of Neanderthals, people knew how to apply red to their ornaments. In the Zhou Dynasty, red became a popular color.
"On the Bow in the Book of Rites" records: "Zhou people are still red, and they do great things at sunrise. Military affairs are taken by scorpions, and animals are used by scorpions."
In other words, the Zhou Dynasty advocated red, and red horses should be used as war horses. Sacrifice should choose red bull, even the funeral should choose to be buried at sunrise in the morning when the sky is covered with red clouds.
But in the Zhou Dynasty, red could only be the exclusive color of the emperor's family. Red really entered the homes of ordinary people in the late Ming Dynasty.
If red is a symbol of status, then scarlet is a fighter in red.
The author Spike Bucklow pointed out that Scarlet was not the name of color at first, but an expensive wool fabric.
Because this kind of cloth is very luxurious, even more expensive than silk, in order to maintain its characteristics, people usually dye it noble red, so that people often use "scarlet" instead of cloth as the color.
Scarlet became a symbol of luxury and power. /kloc-In the 3rd century, the ban on luxury goods issued by Leon and Castilla stipulated that only kings could use scarlet.
In fact, not only in the West, China was often used as a "palace wall paint" since the Ming Dynasty, as evidenced by the red wall and red column of Zhumen in the majestic Forbidden City.