A train of Line 10 ran through Changhe Station

Train carriages of Line 9 (Photographed by Li Ye)

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- In the movie A Chinese Odyssey, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish “Zixia Fairy” from her sister “Qingxia”.

In Chongqing’s “rail transit circle”, the train “Zixia” of Line 9, which made its debut on July 30, also made many netizens confused. If Line 9 is “Zixia”, what about Line 10?

In Chongqing, each CRT line has its own unique representative color. For example, the color of the first purple line of Chongqing, Line 10, is violet. The reason why Line 9 is called “Zixia Fairy” is also because its “representative color” is purplish red.

Who is the real “Zixia Fairy”? Line 9 and Line 10? We will take you to see “colorful” Chongqing Rail Transit lines and find the answer.

Doubts from nitizens: Why is “Zixia Fairy” of Line 9 like red?

On July 30, the first train of CRTLine 9 was unveiled, attracting much attention. This train not only inherited the many advantages of Chongqing rail transit train, but also got a nice name “Zixia (purple) Fairy”.

Although the name sounds nice, many netizens were confused. A netizen issued a question on Weibo: “Where is the ‘purple’?” Another netizen also asked on Weibo, “Line 10: What color am I?”

Careful netizens discovered that the reason why the line 9 train is called “Zixia Fairy” is because its “representative color” is purple. However, compared with Chongqing’s first purple line, Line 10, the “purple” of Line 9 is less obvious. A netizen posted on WeChat Moments with pictures: “Purple” on Line 9 becomes more and more red.

Is the “Zixia Fairy” train on Line 9 purple or not? This question, also aroused some art professional teacher’s discussion.

Liu Kai, a mural professional teacher at the Public Art College of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, discussed this issue with several teachers. Liu Kai said that to determine whether the “representative color” of train of Line 9 is purple or red, first of all, you can determine which color the color is biased to by eye observation, and you can also make a more accurate judgment by comparing the color circle or color spectrum.

The result of the discussion between Liu Kai and several teachers is that the “representative color” of the train on Line 9 is more approximate to red. Liu Heyue, an illustrator who has drawn picture book of Chongqing humanistic stories such as Hugui Stone and Cave, agrees with this view.

Authoritative explanation: the representative color of Line 9 is “red” instead of “purple”

What color is the representative color of Line 9? The reporter found the Chongqing Rail Transit Passenger Transport Service Marking Standards released in 2017, which clearly required that the color used in Chongqing Rail Transit Passenger Service Marks is based on the Pantone color card. Each line of Chongqing Rail Transit should use the corresponding representative color.

In the Chongqing Rail Transit Line Sign Color Table, the reporter found the Pantone color cards of the representative colors of Line 9 and Line 10 as “PT 208C” and “PT 267C” respectively.

Through the query, the color composition ratio of “PT 208C” is: 11.1% for black, 11.1% for yellow, and 77.8% for ruby red; the color composition ratio of “PT 267C” is 3% for black, 24.3% for light blue, and 72.7% for purple.

In other words, there is no purple in the color composition of the representative color of Line 9, while ruby red accounts for more than 70%. In the color composition of the sign color of Line 10, there is no red, and purple accounts for over 70%.

The reporter inquired about “Chongqing Rail Transit Line 9” in Baidu Encyclopedia, and the representative color of Line 9 was magenta red.

“Whole color table” of Chongqing Rail Transit representative colors

Each line of Chongqing Rail Transit has its own unique representative color. The reporter inquired through the official website of Chongqing Rail Transit Group about the sign colors of the operated lines.

Line 1: The representative color is “garnet red”. The route takes “humanistic Chongqing” as the cultural theme.

Line 2: The representative color is “forest green”. The route takes “Bayu culture” as the cultural theme.

Line 3: The representative color is “deep blue”. The route takes “ordinary people” as the cultural theme.

Line 4: The representative color is “sun orange”. The route takes “Chongqing art and literature” as the cultural theme.

Line 5: The representative color is “shallow blue”. The route takes “tracing back the provisional capital” as the cultural theme.

Line 6: The representative color is “shallow pink”. The route takes “Bayu mountains and rivers” as the cultural theme.

Line 10: The representative color is “violet purple”. The route takes “Chongqing memory” as the cultural theme.

Loop Line: The representative color is “lemon yellow”. The route takes “impressive Chongqing” as the cultural theme. (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)