三、还原信息
Yuebai(月白),qielan(窃蓝)and shiqing(石青)…
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It's how ancient Chinese people talked about different kinds of blue — light or deep. Yuebai is not white. It's a kind of blue close to the colour of the moonlight.
Ancient Chinese people divided colours into basic colours and mixed colours. There were five basic colours:blue,red,yellow,white and black.
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For example,mixing yellow and blue gets green. Thousands of colours came in this way.
Colours have special meanings in Chinese culture. In ancient China,colour was a symbol(象征)of social positions. For example,yellow stood for power. And officials of different ranks(级别)wore clothes with different colours. Only officials of the top three ranks could wear purple clothes.
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In fact,many beautiful colour names come from famous works. For example,dongfangjibai is a light blue colour.
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The blue colour describes the colour of the sky before the sun rises. Like this,the pink colour taoyao comes from The Book of Poetry(《诗经》). This colour describes blooming peach trees(盛开的桃树). Sounds beautiful,right? These colours from ancient China show the understanding of beauty.
A. It was impossible to get mixed colours.
B. It comes from a work written by Su Shi.
C. Blue was for those in the two lowest ranks.
D. Do you know these words about the colour blue?
E. People could put them together to get mixed colours.
F. In ancient China,colour didn't play an important part in people's life.