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Proper and Original Colours of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian

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Compatible with saved games.
This MOD only changes the texes and colours of factions. It can work with most of other MODs.

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This MOD changes the colours of flags, uniforms, and campaign map territories of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian back to the old version.

In this game, the FIVE ELEMENTS (WUXING, 五行) are widely applied in the designing of characters, units, seasons, reforms, and so on. The WUXING system is one of core philosophical theories in China and Eastern Asia. In ancient China, the WUXING system was also used to demonstrate imperial dynasties' mandict power. And this theory was called the Mandate Power Circulation of Five Elements (五德始終說).

Briefly speaking, dynasties were thought to rule representing one or several Spirits of the Five Elements in ancient China. Therefore, every dynasty will choose one or several colours for the ruling house, because every Spirit of the Five Elements has its colour. White is for the Metal. Green is for the Wood. Black is for the Water. Red is for the Fire. Yellow is for the Earth.

Han Dynasty, the House of Liu, was thought to be blessed by the Spirits of Water, Earth, and Fire.
Wei Dynasty, the House of Cao, was thought to be blessed by the Spirit of Earth, born in Fire.
Wu Dynasty, the House of Sun, was thought to be blessed by the Spirit of Wood.

So in this MOD,
Black, yellow, and red for Liu Bei;
Yellow, and deep red for Cao Cao;
Green for Sun Jian.

You see the original colours of the three main factions were correct and proper before UPDATE 1.6.0. I can't understand why CA made this change. SCREW THE KOEI COLOURS. THAT'S LIKE DRAWING A WHITE EAGLE ON GREEN CLOTHES AND CALLING IT A ROMAN BANNER.

The following MODs are also highly recommended. They are all uploaded by @sEcOnDbOuToFiNsAnItY.
Old Banners and Colours
Lü Bu Trailer Banner and Inverted Uniform/Map Colours (New Style)

73 Comments

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lwhのsama 27 May @ 12:49am

曹操土黄色屎黄色，孙家陈绿色，刘备棕色

tiansai122 3 Feb @ 12:10am

军队的牌牌还是原来的颜色

Leftmise 7 Nov, 2024 @ 6:44am

虽然实际画面表现很丑我不会用，但是作者的文本对历史文化很考究，订阅以便日后翻阅研习

MrKisk 14 Apr, 2024 @ 2:09am

This isn't historically accurate. Historically Wu was yellow. There's strong evidence for it from Sun Quan's Sanguozhi biography, and the Zizhi Tongjian (ZZTJ) which states "Wu changed reign title to Huangwu, also following the evolution of Five Elements, succeeding the Han as the Earth Element."

According to Dr. Yang of Denison University, Wu using green (and thus a wood phase) is a modern folk theory that has no support in any historical sources.

Wei was also using yellow for the same reason as Wu, as they succeeded Han's red and fire phase. There is textual evidence for Wei using majority yellow and the earth element from the era names; Cao Pi's very first era name was 黃初 (yellow beginning).

Shu-Han most likely used predominantly red, because they claimed continuation of the Han, but there are no historical texts which state which colour and element they used unlike with Wu and Wei.