Isn't purple a common color? Why don't national flags use purple?
What do the colors of national flags in the world symbolize? However, after the July Revolution of 1830, the tricolor flag became the national flag of France again and continues to this day. The French national flag is one of the most important national flags in the world, which has an important influence on the development of national flags all over the world.
Did purple annoy anyone?
This started a long time ago. For centuries, purple has symbolized royal status and status. On one occasion, Queen Elizabeth made a ban that non-royals should not wear purple clothes!
As the saying goes, things are rare, and purple was once extremely precious, several times more than Huang Jingui! Because its original dyes were very scarce, most of the purple dyes came from Tyre, the trading capital of Phoenicia. Dyers extract dyes from small shells. Not only is the extraction process very complicated, but more than 65,438+00,000 small conchs are needed to extract 65,438+0 grams of dye, and these conchs only live in Tyre in the Mediterranean!
Because of this, purple has become an extremely expensive color, only the rich can afford it, so wearing purple has become the privilege of the royal class, and purple represents sacredness, dignity and spirituality! In ancient Europe, the royal family in purple was considered to be descended from God!
In ancient China, the place where the emperor lived was called the Forbidden City, which meant auspiciousness. It is speculated that there are some origins in this period.
Purple is expensive, not only for ordinary people, but also for royalty. Legend has it that King Aureliano III of Rome forbade his wife to buy Tyre's purple silk shawl because it was too expensive!
How expensive is it? Almost three times the price of gold! 1 pound purple dye is worth 3 pounds of gold!
What is this concept? It is equivalent to 56,000 US dollars now, almost 360,000 RMB! Is it ridiculously expensive Just 1 pound purple dye can travel around the world carefully!
The Phoenicians who invented purple dyes also made a fortune at that time. Even the name Phoenicia was related to purple, which means "purple country".
It is precisely because of the high price that even the royal families of local tyrants are too expensive to afford to dye the national flag purple.
Since more than a century ago, purple has entered the lives of ordinary people. 1856, 18-year-old British chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally discovered a purple compound while trying to synthesize an antimalarial drug. He also found that this compound can dye fabrics!
So he applied for the patent of this dye and began to produce purple cloth on a large scale, and then he embarked on the road to wealth!
Since then, purple has become a color that everyone can afford. As a result, purple is no longer a symbol of privileged status, and members of the royal family no longer respect purple.
After 1900, many countries redesigned their national flags, but few of them used purple.
1989 In September, Cape Town, South Africa, anti-apartheid citizens took to the streets to demonstrate, and the police dispersed the demonstrators with water guns sprayed with purple dye. Purple, once a symbol of supreme power and status, was used on these insulted people without restraint, which was unimaginable hundreds of years ago.