willow-yellow

Updated: June 21, 2025

"Leek-green and willow-yellow are what are most to my taste," Ying Erh pursued. "Yes, they'll also do!" Pao-yue retorted. "But make one of peach-red too and then one of leek-green." "Of what design?" Ying Erh remarked. "How many kinds of designs are there?" Pao-yue said.

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II