Don't be obsessed with "Kleina", look at the national color in the gemstone

For the vast majority of people, the gorgeousness refracted by the different jewelry can reach the deepest part of our soul. Starlights are reflected in the ocean -like sea blue treasures, emerald -like emeralds like tender leaves, vibrant rubies exuding vibrant rubies, and obsidian obsidian like dark nights ...

In fact, since ancient times, the Chinese have their own aesthetic preferences for the color of gems. The formation of this aesthetic preference is determined by our cultural genes.

Exploring the color matching of the gem can help us tell us a good Chinese story.

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The five elements behind the five colors

Each gem has its color. Is there a certain law in these complex colors in nature?

Gold inlaid Pearl Emerald Ring of the Palace Museum

The earliest system discussion of the Chinese people is the "five colors" of the "five colors", namely green, red, white, black, and yellow. "Five colors" originated from the idea of ​​"five elements" in ancient times. The ancients believed that the world we rely on survive was composed of five basic material elements. These five elements were gold, wood, water, fire, soil, and they. There is a relationship between each other. Correspondingly, there are five most basic colors in nature. Since then, the Chinese people's feelings about these five colors have always been closely linked to the five substances of "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth".

If you are classified in "five colors", each color has a lot of jewelry corresponding to it.

There are emeralds, emeralds, olives, and chalcedony;

There are tourmaline, garnet, coral, agate;

There are obsidian, black pearls, tiger eyes, black agate;

There are pearls, diamonds, Hetian jade, crystal;

Yellow has beeswax, yellow jade, golden green cat eye, yellow diamond.

Historically, the ancients tried to put all the jewelry of different colors on one piece of utensils to create a auspicious and festive atmosphere. The "Five Elements" thought is the crystallization of wisdom summarized by the ancient scholars in the long years, and the combination of the "five -color" jewelry is a response to this idea.

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The unity of the heavens behind the black and white color

In ancient Chinese aesthetic systems, people have unique preference for black and white. Zhang Yanyuan, a master of painting theory of Tang Dynasty, mentioned in "The Records of the Famous Painting" that "it is the ink and five colors, which is proud." Rich changes, perfectly expressing objects. As a result, ancient painters used the two most primitive color paintings of Black and White. Ink painting was one of the very characteristic forms of painting in China. This is the case for painting.

Ivory carving boy Sheyang Qing Palace Museum

Black and white are the two poles of color brightness. The poles are opposite, reflecting a cultural spirit of "unity of heaven and man". This spirit is essentially the discussion of the relationship between man and nature, and it is also a harmonious and unified pursuit of man and nature.

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Compare the noble monk behind the color

Chinese traditional aesthetics pay attention to "neutralization and beauty".

"He" is the embodiment of the dialectical thinking of traditional Chinese art and the highest state of Chinese art. In ancient times, our ancestors had already learned their thinking about "harmony" with contrasting colors.

In nature, red, green, yellow, purple, blue and orange are relatively stronger three pairs of colors. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people had begun to decorate Tang Sancai with a contrasting contrast. In addition, in the painted murals of Mogao Grottoes, we can also see that the painters use the contrasting colors to express the clothes of the characters and the yin and yang of the building.

Visually, the contrasting color can often form unexpected, stable and unified color structure after reorganization. Therefore, such color matching is also applied to jewelry design close to life.

Coral emerald Jiqing has the remaining bonsai Qing Palace Museum

The stable and unified color structure often looks coordinated and subtle. This color matching is exactly the psychological rhythm of the Chinese people's "neutral beauty". This color design also contains the Chinese attitude of the Chinese people's pursuit of "noble monk".

One mountain, one water, one grass and one wood, and even every gem is color, the exploration of color beauty is the result of the conversation between man and nature. Colors make jewelry more rich language expression. The colorful jewelery has created an ideal and carefree world for us through different colors.

From ancient times to the present, the Chinese exploration of color art has never stopped. Analyzing the gem color matching experience of the ancients. The use of traditional Chinese colors in design is the only way to enter the inner world of the ancestors. One of the ways. Jewelry design with color cultural connotation allows the world to better understand the image of Chinese culture from the perspective of color and help us better show a vivid and three -dimensional American China.

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