| Summary: | 碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 應用設計研究所 === 91 === Abstract
Color affects our life deeply. The description of image is a main element in poem. “Shih-Ching” is the earliest collection of Chinese poems. It spreads widely and long lasting in spite of the wars and is the best-preserved Chinese classics. It records the life and the knowledge in its era comprehensively and contains periodical styles, images and meanings; therefore, it is the basis of literature studying. This study expects to investigate and analyze its aesthetic elements.
According to the pilot study of “Shih-Ching”, there were 85 poems which contained vocabularies involved with colors. This study will classify all the color elements, images and major meanings of the color vocabularies. The colors of plants and animals described in the poems will be analyzed based on the color theory. This study also explores the metaphor of color harmony, color scheme, color application, color performance, and color construction. This study attempts to explore the cognitive power and the aesthetic laws, and to rebuilt the color image in the poems, and to establish a model of color research for “Shih-Ching”.
The aims of this study are: 1. Building a color research model to study the colors in “Shih-Ching”. 2. Finding out the color system of “Shih-Chin”. 3. Accumulating the data of color vocabularies from the images of color , plants and animals in “Shih-Ching”. The results will be useful for the designers and the artists. The wisdom, color and aesthetics knowledge of ancient Chinese can also be preserved and lasted, which will lead to a better stage of studying “Shih-Ching”.
In “Shih-Ching” the colors of colors were expressed through the names of animals, plants, minerals , materials, cloths, and nature. For example, the color of black was divided by seven categories that were玄(shiuan) 、緇(tz) 、驪(li) 、幽(yu) 、黑(hei) 、玖(jiou) 、烏(w) ，
which were found 21 times. The color of white had fourteen categories, they were白（bai）、素（su）、皎（jiau）、雪（shiue）、雲、皓（hau）、玉（yu）、皙（sh）、瑳（tsuo）、荼、縞（gau）、霜（shaung）、凝脂（ning -jr）、蝤蠐（chiou-ji），which were found 64 times. The color of red had sixteen categories, they were朱（ju）、彤（tune）、赫（he）、赭（je）、韎（mei）、茹藘（ru-liu）、奭（shr）、丹（dan）、瓊（chiung）、赤（chr）、赬（cheng）、璊（men）、騂（shing）、騮（liou）、騢（shia）、驖（tie）, which were found 46 times. The color of yellow had six categories, they were黃（haung）、金（jin）、皇（haung）、芸（yun）、駓（pi）、騧（gua）, which were found 41 times. And the color of bule had ten categories, they were青（jing）、綠（liu）、蒼（tsang）、騏（chi）、菼（tan）、藍（lan）、蔥（tsung）、驒（tuo）、綦（ji）, which were found 41 times. White appeared much more frequently than red was contradicted by the saying of Jou Dynasty people prefered red. Nevertheless, the result of this research indicates that white should be the preferable color in that particular period. Most of colorvocabularies in the loves chapter.
In this study, the color of black symbolized royalty, beauty, exhaustion, weakness, stability and comfort. The color of white represented routine, dullness, grandeur, holiness, loneliness, fatigue, beauty connect, dignity, unreserve, passing, pure, pain, symbol gentleman. The color of red represented the beauty of figure, the dgnity of royalty and facial expression. The color of yellow symbolized beauty, sadness, cute, light, withering, and long life. The color of blue signified snob and courser. The rule of color harmonized with the combinations of single colors, similar colors, contrast colors, and complementary colors, which showed the aesthetics and regularities of colors.The symbolic meanings of colors depicted from the “Shih-Ching” would not be neglected for the time being; on the other hand, they would be strengthened as the study of color and the excavation of archaeology grow rapidly and consummately.
Keywords：Shih-Chin，Color Vocabularies，Color Image
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