The Traditional Chuanximinju Color Study

The color representation of Chinese traditional architecture has its steady style and order. After the policy reform and opening to the outside world, the architectures from foreign countries appeared in our country, which have positive factors such as economic, real-life utilities, brightness, vogue, fashion, high rate of capacity and so on. and motley architectures erected everywhere. But most of them have not regionally features, look like machine-made, and take on a disorder state. In recent years, we have realized that the architecture of a nation should have its own culture characteristics, and the architectures in Europe style become not as popular as before. Take Chengdu for example, we can see many architectures in local styles especially in local habitation styles today, lots of them are in traditional West Sichuan habitation style which take pink walls and black tiles as its character. The traditional West Sichuan habitation has its unique characteristics in the mode of construction, the forms of ornament and the color style. We can learn much from it, including its styles, yard space and distribution of plane. It benefits us a lot from studying the color of traditional West Sichuan habitation. For example, it can help to improve the seeing-environment of the living space of cities of our country, absorb the rational elements of traditional culture from the color, and explore the culture of the seeing-space of color and the taste of the construction space of cities in modern times.The article mainly study the color of face and the construction styles of traditional habitation in West Sichuan from the point of view of aesthetic, and discuss the reasons result in the colors coming into being, then analyze the color of face in several aspects by a aesthetic method, so we may find out the possible spirit which bring us the seeing aesthetic feelings. At the end of the article, the author...