Chapter 79 Primary and Secondary Colors

Chapter 79 Primary and Secondary Colors

Chapter 79 Primary and Secondary Colors
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: If she is here, let her come over and watch it together. I have time now, so I can tell her about it.]
"Uh..." After seeing through Liu Zhuyi's long words, Xu Yichi blinked awkwardly and subconsciously looked back at Bai Miaomiao beside him.

Seeing this, the latter raised his chin towards her nonchalantly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, reply quickly to say I'm here!"

"——Good boy, I was curious and stayed a little longer, and I happened to catch up with the master's on-site teaching... Quick, Xiaoyi, reply, I will go down and quickly get the paper and pen."

"Okay, then you should be careful on the stairs and don't fall." The little girl nodded in a daze, and then she quickly replied to the real ancestor opposite.

[Lanting Xueyichi: The senior is here, but she went downstairs to get some paper and pen, so she’ll be back in two or three minutes.]
Bai Miaomiao was probably really anxious today. There were nearly twenty steps in total to go up and down. She was wearing a long skirt that almost reached the ground. It took her less than three minutes to run back and forth, including getting paper and looking for a pen.

"I'm back, Xiaoyi! What did Teacher Liu say?" The girl in Hanfu, holding up her skirt, ran out of breath. A closer look revealed that she had beads of sweat on her forehead.

Xu Yichi glanced down at his phone in response, then handed the screen to Bai Miaomiao: "Don't worry, Teacher Liu is talking about this."

[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Oh, okay, no rush. There aren’t many young people these days who are willing to write things down on paper. Let her find it slowly. I’ll just pick out the key points first.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: First of all, it’s about the overall color scheme of the Han Brocade Spirit Portrait. I see that you mainly use the five colors that appear in the Han Brocade, namely “red, yellow, white, blue, and green”. Please note that the “blue” I’m talking about here is not the blue that is between blue and green that we often talk about now, but the “blue” in the so-called “blue comes from blue”, which is the indigo extracted from Polygonum aviculare. ]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: the overall idea and direction of your design is generally correct, but you may not have considered it carefully enough and overlooked some minor details.]
[Please don't call me Tiger Bi: For example, according to your setting, in order to repair this Han brocade, you need to use the five-colored silk derived from the five aspirations and gathered the "power of the five stars", right?]
When Bai Miaomiao saw this sentence, she was subconsciously stunned, so she hurriedly took Xu Yichi's phone and replied to Liu Zhu with a sentence or two.

[Lanting Xueyichi: Yes, hello, Mr. Liu, I am the main beauty Bai Miaomiao of "Dream Making Collection" - according to our setting, the "five-color silk" is indeed needed to repair Han brocade. ]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Hey, hello Miaomiao.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: You have done your homework and looked up information in advance, so you should know what the “five colors” mentioned in our traditional five elements theory refer to, right?]
Bai Miaomiao was even more confused when she saw this, but her subordinates still answered Liu Zhuyi's questions obediently.

[Lanting Snow: I know, it is “red, yellow, black, white, and blue”.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Yes, it is “red, yellow, black, white, and green”, which correspond to “fire, earth, water, gold, and wood” respectively.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Have you ever thought about why the “primary color” black did not appear in this Han brocade arm guard we unearthed in Xinsheng, and the “intermediate color” green was actually woven into the brocade?]
"Emm..." Bai Miaomiao, who usually seems like a living Baidu, was stuck at this point.

[Lanting Xueyichi: Maybe it’s because… black is too dark, it’s easy to fade, and it’s easy to dye the other colored threads next to it?]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Yes, some scholars do think so.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: But according to my research experience, the dyeing technology of the ancients in the Han Dynasty was not yet mature, and the method of stably dyeing pure black cloth and silk thread was relatively troublesome. The overall cost was too high, which may also account for a considerable part of the reason.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: In ancient times, if ordinary cloth wanted to be black, it had to be dyed reddish brown first, and then various chemical reactions occurred through the mixing of various dyes and exposure to sunlight. The color could only become black after being deepened over and over again - sometimes people would even add a certain amount of indigo to brighten these black cloths.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: It can be said that, in fact, pure black was the exclusive color of the nobility for a long time, especially during the Qin and Han dynasties. During the Qin Dynasty and the early Han Dynasty, the emperor’s robes were all black, and it was difficult for ordinary people to wear the real “black”.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Because the dyeing and weaving technology is not yet advanced enough, this color is rare, the cost is high, and the color of the finished product may not be 100% stable.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: Let’s go back and talk about this batch of Han brocade with the words “Five stars rise in the east, benefiting China” woven on it - this batch of Han brocade was originally made by Emperor Xuan of Han to encourage his soldiers to go to the Western Qiang. It was made by the royal family and used the top weaving technology of the Han Dynasty. It also had many auspicious patterns woven on it that ordinary people could not use.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: In this way, this piece of Han brocade and the arm guards and other marching supplies made from it are actually a reward bestowed by the emperor on the soldiers. It is a special honor that was distributed in advance and embodied the emperor’s expectation of a great victory in this expedition.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: it comes from the royal family and represents the royal family, but while it represents the will of the emperor, it cannot really go beyond the rules of the emperor. This is like the “yellow jackets” that the Qing emperors awarded to their ministers were not really intended for them to wear. However, these arm guards were indeed worn by the soldiers.]
[Please don't call me Tiger Bi: So, Miaomiao, if you were a weaving craftsman in the Han Dynasty, and faced with the emperor's request to weave a batch of brocade with five colors and five stars and other imperial regulations to make marching supplies for the soldiers, how would you design this brocade so that it can represent the majesty of the royal family without completely overstepping the royal standard?]
[Lanting Xueyichi: Uh… Mr. Liu, do you mean… replace one of the five primary colors with a corresponding, inconspicuous secondary color? Change “black” to green?]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: It’s about the same. At least after so many years of research, I think this idea is relatively reliable, so I share it with you for reference.]
[Lanting Xueyichi: Well, well, well…what is your suggestion for the color scheme of our character design…]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: the proportion of indigo blue doesn’t need to be so large. The red, yellow, white and green patterns on the blue base are a bit blinding.]
[Please don’t call me Tiger Bi: After all, it is a gift from the Heavenly Family, and it is a spirit that has been a spirit for many years. You can paint it with a black background and blue patterns and add other colored flowers. This way it will look more low-key and not so blinding.]
This chapter is all written by me.