“颜色词”是“单纯表示颜色的词与在特定情形下用为颜色的词的总和”(吴剑2014a:7)。我们把颜色词区分为语义颜色词、语用颜色词两大类。“语义颜色词”指单纯表示颜色的词,如“黑”“白”“红”“绿”“青”等,是典型的形容词,具备形容词的语法特征。“语用颜色词”指在特定情形下用为颜色的词,如“霜”“星”“鹤”“银”在形容人体鬓发的语境中常表示出“白色”义,语用颜色词也被称之为物体颜色词。在约294万字的明代戏剧唱词语料中,我 “Color Word ” is “The sum of a word that is purely color-coded and a word that is colored in a particular situation ” (Wu Jian 2014a: 7). We distinguish the color words into semantic color words and pragmatic color words. “Semantic color word ” refers to a simple color of the word, such as “black ” “white ” “red ” “green ” “green ” and so on, is a typical adjective, with adjective Grammatical features. “Pragmatic color word ” refers to the word used as a color under certain circumstances, such as “frost ” “star ” “crane ” “silver ” in the context of describing the human hair is often expressed “White ” meaning, pragmatic color words are also called object color words. In about 294 words of Ming Dynasty drama lyrics corpus, I