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Learn Chinese Color Tales -- Green and Blue
In Chinese learning, you can see generally green is associated with health, prosperity, and harmony. Recently, the color has also been associated with the PRC's harmonization efforts, such as the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort internet censorship software. Additionally, to learn Chinese culture, you cannot neglect a special meaning of green hats. Green hat are associated with infidelity and used as an idiom for a cuckold. This has caused uneasiness for Chinese Catholic bishops, who in ecclesiastical heraldry would normally have a green hat above their arms. Chinese bishops have compromised by using a violet hat for their coat of arms. Sometimes this hat will have an indigo feather to further display their disdain for the color green
Blue symbolizes immortality. Dark blue is also a color for somber occasions like funerals and deaths. Light blue, corresponding with wood, represents nature and renewal and often indicates spring. The color implies vigor and vitality. Its base colors also have distinct meanings.
In a Chinese lesson, you may have noticed that yellow was the color of Imperial China and is held as the symbolic color of the five legendary emperors of ancient China. Yellow often decorates royal palaces, altars and temples, and the color was used in the robes and attire of the emperors. Yellow also represents freedom from worldly cares and is thus esteemed in Buddhism. Monks’ garments are yellow, as are elements of Buddhist temples. Yellow is also used as a mourning color for Chinese Buddhists.
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