在诸多前人关于彝族色彩的研究成果中,我们能够看到,在古彝人的宇宙观中,构成世界产生的元素有着其特定的性状和色彩。为什么彝族先民意念中的始创元素“清”“浊”二气是“青”色和“红”色,而不是其他别的颜色?本文尝试从视觉艺术中色彩的属性出发,立足视知觉原理,援引西方现代心理学实验和心理学分析,解析早期彝族和彝语支民族先民观念中造成天地的特定元素之颜色,以及这种色彩观念所从属的哲学观念。 In the research results of many predecessors on the color of Yi people, we can see that in the ancient Yi people’s cosmic view, the elements that make up the world have their own specific traits and colors. Why is the originality element of Yi ancestors’ ideas “Qing ” “cloud ” two gas is “blue ” color and “red ” color, but not other other colors? This article attempts from the visual arts Based on the theory of visual perception, we use the modern psychology experiments and psychological analysis in the West to analyze the color of certain elements of heaven and earth in the concepts of early Yi and Yi national ancestors, as well as the philosophy of subordination of this color concept Concept.