Talk:Dynastic Chinaball/@comment-18014300-20180531071224

You guys should diversify each of the dynastic balls. At the very least, color them according to the national colors that each dynasty adopted based on their chosen element.

Wood = green or blue-green (never blue); Fire = red; Earth = yellow or gold; Metal = white or silver; Water = black

The colors chosen are as follows with Xia–Zhou being elements later dynasties retroactively decided for them. Xia (green or white), Shang (white or black), Zhou (red or green), Qin (black), Western Han (yellow), Eastern Han (red), Shu Han (red), Cao Wei (yellow), Sun Wu (green), Jin (white), Sui (fire), Tang (yellow), Song (red), Jurchen Jin (yellow), Yuan (white), Ming (red). Qing's color is black, and they wore a lot of black, but their actual flag is yellow.

Each Chinese dynasty chose an element according to a cycle, but the cycle could get disrupted, hence why there isn't an overall, smooth pattern.

For more information on how each dynasty chose their color, refer to this comprehensive and accurate explanation someone gave on Quora.

https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Qin-Dynasty-idea-of-the-various-dynasties-each-matching-and-element-accepted-by-anyone-else

Two other suggestions:

•Tang dynasty should be colored gold since it is seen by the Chinese as the greatest Golden Age. The color gold was treated as "yellow" during this time.

•They should get the actual hats worn by the emperors of each era, just as you guys did with the Pharaoh and other monarchs. The strawhat honestly seems too stereotypical. Lingball has the exact examples with his avatars.