“黄色”一词的由来

华利波之恋

  题记：中国古代黄色是高贵的颜色，后来变作贬义是受本文影响。十九世纪末英国的低俗小说往往用黄色封皮，后来黄色就有了色情之义。

我们今天经常用“黄色”来指称带有明显色情意味的的东西，对此大家已经约定俗成。

一样事物只要被冠以“黄色”二字，往往就是“扫”和“打”的对象。而在中国古代，黄色却是极其高贵的色彩，是皇家御用的，平民百姓还不准用呢。这中间的变化转换，主要是受了西方的影响。

1894年，英国创刊了一家杂志，名字就叫《黄杂志》，一批有世纪末文艺倾向的小说家、诗人、散文家、画家等，围绕该杂志形成一个被称为“颓废派”的文艺集团。他们的作品，有时带有一点色情意味，但不能算淫秽。

然而第二年4月3日，当时极负盛名的英国剧作家王尔德（O.Wilde），因同性恋的罪名遭到逮捕。而逮捕他时的一个小插曲，使得《黄杂志》名声大受损害。当时报纸上说，王尔德在被捕时胁下还夹了一本《黄杂志》，于是人们想当然地认为这杂志和王尔德同样是不名誉的，第二天就有人到《黄杂志》的出版商门前示威，用石头将橱窗玻璃砸得粉碎。

其实王尔德被捕那天，胁下夹的书是法国作家比尔·路易的小说《爱神》，碰巧这本小说和当时法国的许多廉价小说一样，也是黄封面的。这种小说称为“yellowback”，也被认为是不登大雅之堂的。

《黄杂志》也好，“yellowback”也好，都使得“黄色”与性、色情、恶俗等等概念发生了联系。但就在同时，大洋彼岸的美国报业，则另有一番“黄色”景象。

当时纽约的《世界报》和《日报》，为了发行量而展开疯狂竞争。先是J.普利策买下了《世界报》，用绘声绘色、耸人听闻的报道和对政治腐败的攻击，赢得了全美报纸的最大发行量。1895年矿业巨头之子W.R.赫斯特买下了《世界报》的对手《日报》，他所采用的手段更是变本加厉，甚至把专为《星期日世界报》画极受读者欢迎的连环漫画《黄色小子》的画家也挖了过来。当时两报广泛采用通栏大字标题、彩色连环画、大量图片等等手法，竭力迎合读者。这段时期被称为“黄色新闻”时期。

这就是西方的“黄色”──色情也好，媚俗也好，都被认为是低级的东西。

华利波之恋

  题记：中国古代黄色是高贵的颜色，后来变作贬义是受本文影响。十九世纪末英国的低俗小说往往用黄色封皮，后来黄色就有了色情之义。

我们今天经常用“黄色”来指称带有明显色情意味的的东西，对此大家已经约定俗成。

一样事物只要被冠以“黄色”二字，往往就是“扫”和“打”的对象。而在中国古代，黄色却是极其高贵的色彩，是皇家御用的，平民百姓还不准用呢。这中间的变化转换，主要是受了西方的影响。

1894年，英国创刊了一家杂志，名字就叫《黄杂志》，一批有世纪末文艺倾向的小说家、诗人、散文家、画家等，围绕该杂志形成一个被称为“颓废派”的文艺集团。他们的作品，有时带有一点色情意味，但不能算淫秽。

然而第二年4月3日，当时极负盛名的英国剧作家王尔德（O.Wilde），因同性恋的罪名遭到逮捕。而逮捕他时的一个小插曲，使得《黄杂志》名声大受损害。当时报纸上说，王尔德在被捕时胁下还夹了一本《黄杂志》，于是人们想当然地认为这杂志和王尔德同样是不名誉的，第二天就有人到《黄杂志》的出版商门前示威，用石头将橱窗玻璃砸得粉碎。

其实王尔德被捕那天，胁下夹的书是法国作家比尔·路易的小说《爱神》，碰巧这本小说和当时法国的许多廉价小说一样，也是黄封面的。这种小说称为“yellowback”，也被认为是不登大雅之堂的。

《黄杂志》也好，“yellowback”也好，都使得“黄色”与性、色情、恶俗等等概念发生了联系。但就在同时，大洋彼岸的美国报业，则另有一番“黄色”景象。

当时纽约的《世界报》和《日报》，为了发行量而展开疯狂竞争。先是J.普利策买下了《世界报》，用绘声绘色、耸人听闻的报道和对政治腐败的攻击，赢得了全美报纸的最大发行量。1895年矿业巨头之子W.R.赫斯特买下了《世界报》的对手《日报》，他所采用的手段更是变本加厉，甚至把专为《星期日世界报》画极受读者欢迎的连环漫画《黄色小子》的画家也挖了过来。当时两报广泛采用通栏大字标题、彩色连环画、大量图片等等手法，竭力迎合读者。这段时期被称为“黄色新闻”时期。

这就是西方的“黄色”──色情也好，媚俗也好，都被认为是低级的东西。

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Blue is a color.

Blue may also be:


Music

Songs
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)", song by Eiffel 65 from the album Europop
"Blue", song by The Verve released in 1993.
"Blue", the opening track of Cowboy Bebop: Blue by The Seatbelts.
"Blue," a song by Lucinda Williams from her 2001 album Essence

Albums
Blue (Joni Mitchell album), released 1971
Blue (Down By Law album), released 1991
Blue (LeAnn Rimes album), released 1996
Blue (Third Eye Blind album), released 1999
Blue (Flashlight Brown album), released 2006

Performers
Blue (boy band), a British pop group
Blue (1970s band), a Scottish pop band
Blue (duo), the 1980s duo who wrote Sonia's Eurovision entry "Better The Devil You Know"

Other
Blues, a genre of music

Film and literature
Film
Blue Movie, a 1969 film directed by Andy Warhol
Blue Velvet, a 1986 film directed by David Lynch
Blue (1993 film), directed by Derek Jarman, consists of the colour blue with narration and soundbytes.
Three Colors: Blue, 1993 film, the first of the Three Colors trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Blue (2001 film), a Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Ando
Blue Crush, a 2002 film of female surfers in Hawaii
Blue (2002 film), a French film directed by Jennifer Champagne
Blue movie, another name for a pornographic movie
Literature
Blue Blood (1992-present), seminal magazine of counterculture erotica
Blue (manga), the Japanese graphic novel by Kiriko Nananan

People
Ben Blue, (1901–1975), a Canadian actor
Lionel Blue, (born 1930), a British rabbi and broadcaster
Vida Blue, (born 1949), a baseball player
Billy Blue (1767-1834) an australian convict
Josh Blue, comedian

Other
Blue, one of the main characters of the children's series Blue's Clues
Blue (Wolf's Rain), a character in the Wolf's Rain anime.
Blue, Don Cherry's Bull Terrier
Blue (Pokémon), a character in the Pokémon video game series
Blue (U.S. Acres), a character in the U.S. Acres comic strip by Jim Davis
Blue (statistics), the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator
Blue (tourism magazine), a New York global adventure magazine
Blue (magazine), an Australian gay men's magazine
Blue (guitar), Billie Joe Armstrong's (from Green Day) first guitar
Blue Microphones, a manufacturer of microphones
Blue, a character in the movie Old School
Blue comedy, comedy that is risque or ribald
Blue (programming language), an educational programming language
Blue (Music TV), a Greek music video channel run by Antenna Group that broadcasts in North America.

Related
Blue can also refer to:

University Sporting Blue, an award given to sportspeople at some universities
Project Blue, the fictional superflu in Steven King's novel The Stand.
An alias of Sandra Good
Depression (mood), feeling "blue"
a mistake, especially in Australian English
someone with red hair, especially in Australian English
The cat or dog coat color
Bluing (steel), an anti-corrosion coating
An employee of Blizzard Entertainment who posts on the Battle.net or World of Warcraft forums. Can be used as an adjective ("blue post," "blue poster") or a noun ("a blue posted in this thread"). The name is derived from the color of text associated with a Blizzard employee's posts.

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Yellow can refer to the the colour Yellow or any of the following:

People
Yellow Bird (d.1855), a Walla Walla chief
Yellow Thunder (1774-1874), a Ho-Chunk chief
Robert Yellowtail (c.1889-1988), a leader of the Crow Nation
Yellow Emperor, a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero

Film and music
Yellow, a film by written and directed by Chris Chan Lee
Yellow Submarine, a song by The Beatles featuring in their animated film Yellow Submarine
The song "Yellow" by Coldplay
Yellow, the nickname of Daniel Ribbiat, bass-player of the band Cinema Strange.
Yello, the Swiss band

Books, comics and games
Yellow, a book by Frank H. Wu about racial politics in the United States
Yellow, a collection of fictional works by Don Lee
Yellow Book, a British magazine of the 1890s
Yellow Pages, a business telephone directory
Yellow Claw, a comic book of the 1950s
The Yellow Kid, an early comic strip character from the 1890s
Yellow, the Pokémon character
Yellow, a yaoi manga

Geography
Yellow River, the second longest river in China
Yellow Sea, a sea between China and Korea

Other
WEAREYELLOW!, an international mega-charity
Yellow badge, to identify a person of certain religion or ethnicity
Yellow dog Democrat, an inflexible voter
Yellow fever, a serious disease
Yellow journalism, unethical or unprofessional journalism
Yellow perch, a fish
Yellow Peril, a color metaphor for race referring to the skin color of east Asians
Yellow Transportation, Inc., a United States freight company.
Yellow, a club in Tokyo

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The Yellow Book, published from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was an important literary periodical that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.

It was the leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period. He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer. The literary content was no less distinguished; authors found within its pages during the three years of its existence include:

Max Beerbohm
Arnold Bennett
"Baron Corvo"
Ernest Dowson
George Gissing
Henry James
Sir Edmund Gosse
Richard Le Gallienne
Charlotte Mew
Count Eric Stenbock
Arthur Symons
H. G. Wells
W. B. Yeats
Though Oscar Wilde never published anything within its pages, it was linked to him because Beardsley had illustrated his Salomé and because he was on friendly terms with many of the contributors. Soon after Wilde was arrested in April 1895 Beardsley was dismissed as the periodical's art editor, his post taken over by the publisher, John Lane, assisted by another artist, Patten Wilson. Although critics have contended that the quality of its contents declined after Beardsley left and that the Yellow Book became a vehicle for promoting the work of Lane's authors, a remarkably high standard in both art and literature was maintained until the periodical ceased publication in the spring of 1897. A notable feature was the inclusion of work by women writers and illustrators, among them Ella D'Arcy and Ethel Colburn Mayne (both also served as Harland's subeditors), George Egerton, Rosamund Marriott-Watson, Ada Leverson, Netta and Nellie Syrett, and Ethel Reed.

The Yellow Book differed from other periodicals in that it was issued clothbound, made a strict distinction between the literary and art contents (only in one or two instances were these connected), did not include serial fiction, and contained no advertisements except publishers' lists. Complete runs of the 13 quarterly volumes will be found in most academic (and many public) libraries, though many of these sets are, in fact, reprints produced after the turn of the century by Lane and by others. A guide to the magazine's contents, The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index, by Mark Samuels Lasner, was published in 1998.

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引用第6楼drdr于2006-10-22 21:22发表的“”:
The Yellow Book, published from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was an important literary periodical that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.

It was the leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings. Aubrey Beardsley was its first art editor, and he has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with French fiction of the period. He obtained works by such artists as Charles Conder, John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer. The literary content was no less distinguished; authors found within its pages during the three years of its existence include:

Max Beerbohm
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