Research On Chinese Traditional Culture

Human perception of color were first found in the original instinct of life.Color played an important role in the history of human culture.The colors most frequently used during the original were:black, white and (red) ocher. These colors are easy to obtain in the nature. The early color art in China is the embodiment of pottery.lt shew the most instinctive of human reason by the natural color. The earliest color system was five-color system which was found about 5000 years before. It was the representative of ancient Chinese civilization and based on the ancient Chinese philosophy. Five-color system included five stern colors and five secondary colors. The stern were:blue, red, yellow, white and black; the five secondary colors are green, red, yellow stream, dark green and purple. The Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period said that "Useing five colors instead of chaos" and Taoism hold a diametrically opposite view, he said "Five colors blind the eye". They were together with the Buddhist which was introduced to China in the Han Dynasty constituted the diversity of ancient China color system. After Tang and Song dynasties, the color of traditional Chinese painting changed from its colorful to the simple and reserved for only black and white. However when the traditional Chinese paintings went to dull the colors, the silk still maintained the vitality of its strong color and which were brilliant in the cultural of color history in the world.