This paper expounds the exquisite decoration of books in Qing dynasty from the aspects of color, decorative modeling, font, layout, paper and ink materials and fittings. At the same time, a large number of rare pictures of the Forbidden City are displayed, such as the largest book in the Qing Dynasty, the jade book in the Qing Dynasty, the credentials of the Qing Dynasty, and the list of internal life of the Qing government.
1, yellow (mainly bright yellow, occasionally light yellow and goose yellow).
2, red.
3, dark blue (also known as magnetic blue, azurite and so on. ).
The above three colors have high chromaticity and belong to strong purity colors. They are attached to the text, bright, dense and easy to see, and have strong decorative significance.
We can learn from various files in the Qing Dynasty:
The content of books in Neifu is not only "imperial", but also the number of prints, full material and color. The most typical is the record of "yellow silk face" in some opinions. Books decorated with yellow are mainly books that record the behavior of the emperor, such as hadith, memoir, biography, jade death and so on.
It is also used in Confucian classics, rules, laws, strategies, constitutional studies and other books. Generally speaking, each color only applies to a certain range and expresses the corresponding meaning. However, a kind of yellow can be used in all kinds of books, indicating that it is something other than color, that is, symbolic meaning-an abstract and intangible thing at work.