What is yellow paper?

Yellow paper is yellow paper. Modern general application only shows the difference between this kind of colored paper and other colored papers, and it has no special significance. Because yellow is more eye-catching, yellow paper is more used for warning and prompting. Gold used to symbolize the dead in ancient times, or materials used by Taoist priests.

Yellow paper is used to draw symbols, because yellow symbolizes the earth in the five elements and the middle of east, west, north and south. According to legend, even so, Middle-earth originated. Chinese characters represent the qi of righteousness, which can also be said to be the meaning between heaven and earth. With the help of the runes written by cinnabar, borrowing meaning can be brought to the extreme.

Another way of saying this is because yellow paper is very similar to the color of official documents used in ancient times. The charm of props is generally to borrow the power of heaven and earth and invite ghosts and gods to help each other. The yellow paper symbol is equivalent to the official document submitted. Taoist priests usually use mantras, and the most commonly used "urgent as a law" means urgent official documents.

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Zhao Xihu once talked about the mystery of the so-called "hard yellow paper"-"hard yellow paper is used by Tang people to study classics, dyed with phellodendron amurense and taken from it. Because of its smooth pulp and oil, good readers often use it as a word. The real works of the two kings in this world are hard and yellow, and they are all imitation books of the Tang Dynasty, not real works. "

"Phellodendron amurense", Phellodendron amurense is also. Bark can be used as medicine to prevent moth, and wood stems can be dyed yellow, which was popular in the Tang Dynasty for writing Confucian classics. Based on this, it can be concluded that the so-called authentic works of the two kings in the world with books on hard yellow paper are just imitations of books in the Tang Dynasty.

"Hard yellow", later in the expert discussion, refers to the copy. The method of "Xiang Tuo" was actually used more in calligraphy than in later painting. Lu Qing in the Cave further shows that during the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, painting methods became more and more complicated, especially the infiltration effect of ink painting rendering, which could not be reproduced by "sound transmission" and had to be replaced by temporary pen.

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