橘｜Orange

橘色，是自然中介於紅與黃之間的顏色。

它存在於火焰、夕陽、秋葉、果實，也出現在礦物、岩石與鐵質沉積形成的暖色色澤之中。

如果紅色更接近能量與作用，

黃色更接近光與顯現，

橘色則像是兩者之間正在發生的過渡。

它帶有紅色的溫度，也保留黃色的明亮，使自然中的變化呈現出一種正在展開的狀態。

在 DIYU Reading System 中，橘色代表的是活力、溫度與轉變中的流動。

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Orange is a colour positioned between red and yellow.

It appears in flame, sunset, autumn leaves, fruit, minerals, rocks, and the warm tones produced by iron-bearing materials in nature.

If red is associated with energy and activity,

and yellow with light and visibility,

orange can be understood as the transition between them.

It carries the warmth of red while retaining the brightness of yellow, giving change a sense of movement as it unfolds.

Within DIYU Reading System, orange represents vitality, warmth, and movement through transition.

橘色位於可見光譜中紅色與黃色之間。

自然中的橘色並沒有單一來源。

植物與果實中的橘色可能來自類胡蘿蔔素；岩石與礦物中的橘色，則可能與鐵氧化物、鐵氫氧化物、微量元素、晶體缺陷或其他形成條件有關。

火焰、日出與日落也會讓橘色以不同方式出現在人的視野中。

因此，橘色並不是某一種物質的固定訊號。

它更像是一段色彩區域——不同的自然作用，可能在這裡產生相似的暖色結果。

閱讀橘色，也是在閱讀物質如何從深紅走向明亮，或從黃色逐漸增加溫度。

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Orange occupies the visible spectrum between red and yellow.

There is no single natural cause of orange colour.

In plants and fruits, orange may be produced by carotenoid pigments. In rocks and minerals, orange tones may result from iron oxides and hydroxides, trace elements, crystal defects, or other conditions of formation.

Flames, sunrise, and sunset can also bring orange into view through entirely different physical processes.

Orange is therefore not a fixed signal of one material or mechanism.

It is better understood as a region of colour in which different natural processes can arrive at similar warm visual results.

Reading orange means observing how matter can move from deep red toward brightness, or how yellow can gradually acquire warmth.

在 DIYU Reading System 中，橘色並不只是熱情、快樂或創造力的象徵。

我們更關注它所處的位置。

它在紅與黃之間。

比紅色明亮，卻比黃色更有溫度；既保留作用留下的力量，也開始出現向外展開的光。

自然中的橘色也經常出現在變化正在發生的位置。

果實成熟。

葉片轉色。

火焰燃燒。

礦物受到元素、氧化與形成環境影響，逐漸出現從黃色、橘色到紅褐色之間的色階。

這些現象並不具有相同的科學成因。

但在人類觀看中，它們共同形成了一種介於「能量正在作用」與「某件事已經顯現」之間的色彩。

對 DIYU 而言，

閱讀橘色，是閱讀變化正在通過物質的那一刻。

它不是起點，也還沒有完全抵達終點。

它更像自然正在轉向另一種狀態時，短暫亮起的一段顏色。

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Within DIYU Reading System, orange is not simply a symbol of passion, happiness, or creativity.

We are more interested in where the colour exists.

It stands between red and yellow.

Brighter than red yet warmer than yellow, it retains the force of activity while beginning to open toward light.

Orange also frequently appears where change is visibly underway.

Fruit ripens.

Leaves turn.

Flames burn.

Minerals develop tones ranging from yellow and orange to reddish brown through the influence of elements, oxidation, and their environments of formation.

These phenomena do not share one scientific cause.

Yet through human observation, they form a common visual territory between energy in action and something becoming visible.

For DIYU,

reading orange means reading the moment when change is passing through matter.

It is neither the beginning nor the final state.

It is a brief colour that appears as nature moves toward something else.