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What color is moonlight white?

Moonlight: light blue. Near white and blue. The ancients thought that the color of the moon was not pure white, but with a faint blue color.

The real name of "moonlight" is "moonlight", which does not describe the bright white like moonlight, but refers to the white with blue color under the moon. In the eyes of modern people, it is like light blue. A kind of chrysanthemum cultivated by the ancients is called "White under the Moon".

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Moonlight is often used in traditional fabrics. Wu Kai in the Heavenly Palace in the Ming Dynasty recorded: "In the moonlight, grass and white are slightly stained with indigo water. This method uses amaranth blue to decoct water and dye it until it is half cooked. " Amaranth blue, Isatis indigotica, Indigo edulis, Polygonum cuspidatum, Malaya, etc. are all plants that can produce indigo, and their "micro-staining" causes the blue to become lighter.

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.

Li Yu also specifically mentioned the application of moonlight in women's clothing in the late Ming Dynasty and the popular color change at that time in "Random thoughts": "I remember when I was a child, those women were still silver red and pink, and the older one was moonlight.

After a while, silver, red, peach and pink all turned red, moonlight turned blue, then red turned purple and blue turned azurite. "Silver red, pink, scarlet and purple here are the colors of the red series from shallow to deep, while moonlight, blue and azurite are the colors of the blue series from shallow to deep.

Etymology is divided into: moonlight, scallion, fish-belly white, water color, jade color, moonlight and grass white.

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