Thread:Collisions/@comment-18014300-20180603052757

Hello, I posted a suggestion over at Dynastic Chinaball to diversify the pre-Qing Chinaballs by at the very least changing their colors to conform with their historically chosen national colors. Historically, the Chinese believed in assigning an element to each dynasty based on a cycle of either "generation" (e.g. water nourishes wood) or "destruction" (e.g. water destroys fire), where a succeeding regime would always choose the element and corresponding color that follows that of their predecessor. I explained more about this on the message wall of the page.

I then requested a user, Marty Wiki, if he could help update some these Dynastic Chinaballs, and another user advised that I ask you about this change first.

I think it would be great to make each of the Dynastic Chinaballs more unique since our balls for many historical regimes already have accurate and really artistic portrayals. Being Chinese myself, I found that the basic designs for the Dynastic Chinaballs to be really awkward because aside from the fact they're all wearing strawhats not every period in China commonly wore (as opposed to their respective imperial headwear), some of these dynasties have really iconic associations with a certain color and not with yellow. The color black, for example, is strongly associated with the Qin and the color red with the Song, and it seems really inaccurate for them both to be yellow. I know that they don't have historically attested flags, but they most likely would have been the Hanzi for their dynasty on a flag of their chosen color. 