古代尚色文化与汉语色彩词

Ancient Color-favored Culture and the Chinese Color Words

汉民族的色彩观有着深厚的历史文化背景,具有鲜明的特色,并由此形成了自己独特的尚色文化和尚色习俗。反映在语言中,就赋予了汉语色彩词特殊的文化寓意和丰富的文化内涵。古代汉语的色彩词十分丰富,它们蕴含并传达着特定的历史文化信息,是古代尚色文化的生动记录,对于了解和研究传统礼仪文化具有特殊的意义。

The color conception of the Chinese nation has its rich and longstanding background of history and culture. It is of some unique features, and has thus shaped its unique color-favored culture and custom. As reflected in the Chinese language, its color words have been assigned with particular and rich connotation of culture. There are a lot of color words in ancient Chinese, which connoted and conveyed some particular information of history and culture. They are vivid symbols of the ancient color-favoring culture, and will be of particular significance to understanding and studying of the traditional etiquette culture.