Color Image in Chinese History
by Chen Lunan
About This Novel
In ancient China, there were only five most important colors: red, green, yellow, white, and black. In the evolution of Chinese civilization, the five-color system and the five-element theory are mutually reinforcing and have penetrated into many aspects such as politics, culture, and social life. This book explains color from the perspective of humanities and history, describing the inextricable connection between color and ancient Chinese culture (including politics, history, literature, folk customs, art, etc.). The author uses history as a bead and colors as a network to pick up and string together the old customs, such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, wine and recreation, grand talks in temples, boudoir gossip, flowers, birds, fish and insects, humans, ghosts and immortals... The colorful images of China for thousands of years are presented in a dazzling way. At the same time, this book decodes the various major, far-reaching, precise and complex social meanings given by the Chinese people in the political culture of five colors, and sheds light on the cultural mysteries of China's historical evolution.
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