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Traditionally, the standard colors in Chinese culture are black, red, cyan (青; qīng), white, and yellow. Respectively, these correspond to water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which comprise the 'five elements' of traditional Chinese metaphysics.
Han purple and Han blue (also called Chinese purple and Chinese blue) are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (circa 220 AD).
The Chinese word for purple, zi, is connected with the North Star, Polaris, or zi Wei in Chinese. In Chinese astrology, the North Star was the home of the Celestial Emperor, the ruler of the heavens. In Chinese astrology, the North Star was the home of the Celestial Emperor, the ruler of the heavens.
Chinese Violet Color coordinates; Hex triplet #856088: sRGB B (r, g, b) (133, 96, 136) HSV (h, s, v) (296°, 29%, 53%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (46, 32, 304°) Source: Pantone TPX: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Moderate purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" ( Chinese 星 官 xīng guān ). [1] The Chinese asterisms are generally smaller than the constellations of Hellenistic tradition. The Song dynasty (13th-century) Suzhou planisphere shows a total of 283 asterisms ...
The scientific name combines the Latin prūnus (“plum tree”) and the obsolete Japanese 梅 (mume, “plum”). The plant is known by a number of different names in English, including Chinese plum and Japanese apricot. An alternative name is ume or mume. Another alternative name is mei.
All Silkies have black or bluish skin, bones and grayish-black meat; they are in the group of Chinese fowls known by the Chinese language name of wu gu ji (烏骨雞), meaning 'black-boned chicken'. More specifically, the Silkie breed itself is named Taihe wu ji ( 泰和乌鸡), 'black-boned chicken from Taihe'. [10]
A red envelope, red packet, hongbao or ang pau (traditional Chinese: 紅包; simplified Chinese: 红包; pinyin: hóngbāo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng-pau) is a gift of money given during holidays or for special occasions such as weddings, graduations, and birthdays.
Fenghuang is a common place name throughout China. The best known is Fenghuang County in western Hunan, southern China, formerly a sub-prefecture. Its name is written with the same Chinese characters as the mythological bird. Phoenix talons (鳳爪; 凤爪) is a Chinese term for chicken claws in any Chinese dish cooked with them.
Chinese spinach can mean any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables in China (among other places): Amaranthus dubius, ( simplified Chinese: 苋菜; traditional Chinese: 莧菜; pinyin: xiàncài ), often bearing red or purple marks. Amaranthus tricolor.