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What color is "moonlight"?

Moon White: Light blue refers to the color of the moon. The ancients thought that the color of the moon was not pure white, but with a faint blue color.

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In the Ming Dynasty, women often wore green with moon white, such as green coats with moon white skirts. In the third episode of Star Shi Yan, they go out in oil-green silk coats and moon-white skirts. Back to the 71st episode of "The Story of Awakening Marriage": (Grandma Tong) is wearing an oil-green silk dress, a moon-white autumn skirt, blue silk sheepskin golden cloud shoes, gold thread, five beams, and gold hoops everywhere.

In the Qing Dynasty, emperors were required to wear corresponding colors in various sacrifices, such as wearing white robes on the moon altar and using white ritual vessels. The Palace Museum has a large collection of white costumes and fabrics in the Qing Dynasty, and the visual effects are all light blue.

Moonlight is often used in traditional fabrics. Moonlight is also loved by literati. In the Ming Dynasty, Gao Lian's Eight Chapters of Respect for Life talked about the five-color notes on wax: the notes on white under the moon, Song Huase and burley were also better, but the other colors were not appreciated.

"Historical Records Zen": Taiyi killed purple embroidery. The five emperors have their own colors, the sun is red and the moon is white. The name of Moon White is like this. Etymology: white is divided into: moonlight, scallion, fish-belly white, water color, jade color, moonlight and grass white.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Moonlight