[Seeking Color in China] Ep2: The Enigmatic Beauty of the Divine【寻色中国】第2集:神颜莫测

HANDICRAFTS & CRAFTSMANSHIP IN THE DIVINE LAND
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Many bright colors.
Early Birth
They are all gifts to God.
About the gods.
might as well leave it to everyone to imagine
Maybe it's the same as the world of science and art.
It is man's exploration of the unknown.
What we are interested in is
What colors do people use?
Engraving the Profound Word of God
Let's start with the mysterious black.
In a completely dark place.
What is the feeling
Classic Pieces in Chinese Plays
This is how it appears.
What is frightening is not a strong opponent.
But the unknown and confusion after the disappearance of vision
this kind of psychology
It is the beginning of our exploration of another world.
Yunnan Dali
A grand torch festival is being prepared.
Inside and outside, you can see the busy Li Weiying.
Sacrifice to the gods.
The Bai community is generally led by women.
In all cultures that worship fire
The darkness retreated by fire and civilization
No bottom disappeared.
The color of the flame.
It is the black in pictographic characters.
Black materials produced by burning
Instead, it became our means of reaching out to God.
Dali's food market in addition to cooking
Also sell a paper printed in black
Our first encounter was here.
Pictures of various gods are printed on the paper
It's called a horse.
We found
This kind of immortal flow in the southwest border
Originally from Central Plains.
Eight hundred years
They are integrated into the local civil belief system.
The Dali people were treated as messengers between people and gods.
But today
People's lives and wishes.
Let the black content change.
Li Huan-ying's daughter
Less than a year old is learning to walk
Husband Zhang Ruilong is a rigid horse
He was ready to carve a new fairy
The knife changes constantly in the process of carving
The original rough line.
The best match with a strong black
Ink transformed from soot
Hacked into the civilized order.
Deep black
It was originally an unknown area outside of people's lives.
We got closer to black.
Use it to build the foundation of the Chinese character system and the beauty of the painting.
But in Dali
Black is old and lovable.
You can even use it to create a personal fairy
The black side gives people a feeling of fear.
And the other side of it
Chaos is beginning again.
Breathing things
The night falls
Torch Festival officially begins
Man is never a nocturnal creature.
We just spent tens of thousands of years
Conquered the night and darkness
Black history.
It is also the history of our learning to live in peace with the unknown.
Light takes us out of darkness.
It also created a colorful world.
Does God exist?
This is another topic.
What we are more curious about is
People in different geographical environments
How to choose the colors of God in their eyes
Plateau
Closer to the sky.
Harsh natural environment.
People seem to rely more on God's protection.
Every important day
Sandu will worship the mountain gods
Gannan Ranch at the end of November
The temperature is close to minus 20 degrees
The Sangyu family headed for a winter settlement.
Grazing
Sang is a painter.
Thangka as a picture of Tibetan gods
There is a strict color code.
Gold is one of the most important steps.
We had the privilege of witnessing the birth of color.
Gold foil added
A little bit of gold powder in the palm of your hand.
Gold price high
Special material quality
Let the color last forever.
People use it to describe
The ideal world that exists above the everyday
But for Sang.
There is a more divine color than gold.
Every once in a while
Sang will talk to his father
In Tibetan Thangka
A variety of materials provide rich colors
One of them is more expensive than gold.
It is said that the painters of the revival period
To use this material.
Do not hesitate to make a fortune
Lapis Lazuli
It is considered the color closest to the sky.
The oldest human writing.
A stone tablet also carved in lapis lazuli
different civilizations of the world
All have used this blue color to express divinity.
Even put it on Pharaoh's eyes.
Lapis lazuli not only from Central Asia
The process of making minerals is also very complicated.
And every hundred grams of rough stone
You can only get four grams of material.
Why this bright blue color
Have the confusion that makes people reckless.
Ancient Chinese Paintings of Lapis Lazuli
Rub it on the hair of the Buddha
This tradition has continued to this day.
It also gave Lapis Lazuli a name in the community.
Buddha Head Green
The image of God under the human
Step by step from the original natural spirit to the human form
From the perspective of art history.
God's way of evolution.
It is actually man's self-consciousness.
The awakening process.
On behalf of God's color
Projecting His Own Will
Lights up with the tip of the tongue
Lapis Lazuli represents the supreme spiritual power of the sky
Sacred and noble status in the hearts of Tibetans
It goes without saying
People who want an instant will look at the clouds.
People who want to live forever will look at the sky.
The Tibetan fire has arrived.
The children changed into their new blue clothes.
The Gods Under Thangka Painting
Sometimes the human fire
The painter's family life.
And we are not much different.
Between real life and the spiritual world.
Shuttle Walk
This is the understanding of life by the Sangs.
Listen to them.
The Tibetan color idea comes from nature.
The painter in the right way.
Give people a beautiful view of heaven and Buddhism
Burning Day
The small town is illuminated by the oil lamp.
Gannan in winter
severe cold rustling
Ideal country in mind.
Shine of Fire
Lapis lazuli expresses divinity with bright colors
And some color.
It's not just value that can take the gods.
Humans have eyes, nose and mouth.
Imagine the gods are also enthusiastic about this way
For example, in the factory that makes incense
People combine color and fragrance.
Hope through the resonance of color and fragrance
Getting closer to God.
hainan tropical rainforest
There is also a fragrance.
Ancient emperors said it could attract immortals and subdue them.
But it was once silent in the clouds of color history.
We have seen its true face.
It is because I have known the mother of the leavers to help the aunt.
Descent true fragrance of this tropical plant
Aliens gave it a domineering name.
Guan Teng
It grows in the forest of the sun
Climb up and fight for the light
Descent really fragrant vines boiled in boiling water
Aroma and red pigment are sucked out together
Its scent helped the ancestors.
In the hot rain forest to avoid drought
And its color on the cotton line is heavy to brown
Multiple dip dyeing can get deep and different earth color system
We use this for fuel.
It can also maintain the fragrance.
This color and smell.
Not just as inclusive as the land.
It also raised the perception of divinity among the ancestors.
People from other ethnic groups put down the cotton thread of true fragrance
with the traditional lumbar tissue machine
That's Li Li.
The human form above.
It is the most important god of the people.
The Hercules.
It is the God who protects us from our families.
Hercules
The God of Heaven and Earth in Diaspora Myths
It's as great as the ancient descendants.
Unwinnable
It kicked out the mountains with its feet
The blue sweat becomes a running river
The last red body.
Turned into the highest peak in Hainan
Jiangzhenxiang
This smell.
Zeng Baoyou's ancestors lived and multiplied.
And its color
Guide people to the floating world
Half City Fire Half City Immortal
The south of the back mountain and the sea
Many gods of faith.
gave birth to a thriving colored porcelain statue
Now
This is where the gods of the world
Also includes the celestial fairy
in Dehua
Eight out of ten people make porcelain for sale
We came to a local porcelain factory
The workers are making
Sold to the beautiful Christmas colored porcelain
However, Western industrial porcelain is only for sale.
We found Xu Chengquan
Looking for a white porcelain.
Seen that much.
After the colorful gods
Why Deze People
Choose the white to shape the gods.
actually.
It is not easy to make porcelain white.
Dehua people groped for several centuries for this.
Finally, all colors.
Stripped out of porcelain
This kind of porcelain clay with low iron
White porcelain fired.
Suya Crystal
It swept Europe in the 17th century.
Xu Chengquan's White Porcelain
The best is kneading plastic
You've been getting close.
Sometimes I can't see the height.
Observe from afar.
See how the effect is.
This amount needs to be a little higher.
Do you want to do it again overnight
Give it a stir.
The author will never feel
I have some satisfied products.
Maybe I'll do the next one.
Maybe even better than this.
Sixty-year-old Xu Chengquan
Usually work in the middle of the night
The fire in half the city has nothing to do with him.
We wanted to take another picture of his life.
He took us.
Went to an unexpected place
An abandoned factory.
Like a huge time capsule
Keep the production line and porcelain
Here is Xu Chengquan
Old State Porcelain Works
Forty years
I am quite mindful
I entered the factory at that time.
I was the youngest in the car.
Go straight to the factory after your life.
Here.
The white we see is not without color.
It promises time.
Talk to you anytime.
A story of light.
We accompanied Xu Chengquan to knead the plastic
That white porcelain will be out soon.
Because of this styling.
I showed myself.
Just like the white porcelain of Ming Dynasty
The white porcelain
basically close
The shape of the light is different from people.
But the beauty of color has not changed.
oil white
Use the color that once soothed the stomach.
Give white bags wrapped in years in advance.
We see clotting white
It's not just a beautiful color.
and a kind of ground.
0.5 mm thickness of the teacup
Like the solidified moonlight
Hand warming
The shape of the victorious Buddha
Because of white porcelain
become as warm as jade
Seen from a distance is sand.
Closer is porcelain.
People can use solid porcelain.
Reach the gentle and elegant Chinese beauty
rely on technology today
Can crack all the secrets of white porcelain color texture
But as long as people are concerned about the good.
White porcelain family will continue to open pool
Of course it's full
Every age.
Each author has his own opinion.
I have an ideal idea in my mind.
Or perhaps it is this never-ending practice.
The white urge out of the extremely pure divinity
See here.
The Colour of God.
What new discoveries will you have?
The gods that people describe are different.
But the heart's deep desire is connected.
When we try to understand divinity.
It also helps you better understand your surroundings.
People through color.
Describe the infinite world with limited knowledge
To settle oneself in impermanence
Feel the power in the change of life
