Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Almanac inquiry - What do white and red represent?
What do white and red represent?
White symbolizes justice, purity, dignity, integrity, youth and detachment from worldly feelings.
White represents purity and symbolizes holiness and elegance. Western countries generally like white. Islam especially believes in white people.
Red represents auspiciousness, jubilation, enthusiasm, happiness, boldness, courage, fighting spirit, exuberance and passion. In China, red also symbolizes smoothness, success and being valued or welcomed by people, such as "red man", "popular", "popular", "internet celebrity", "good luck" and "full house".
Cultural symbol
In many countries and some ethnic groups, red has the function of driving away evil. For example, in ancient China, the walls of many palaces and temples were red, and officials, bureaucrats and costumes were mostly red, namely "Zhumen" and "Zhu Yi"; In the traditional culture of the Han nationality, the color corresponding to fire in the five elements is red, and gossip also symbolizes red.
Because the Han people regard red as a symbol of auspiciousness, happiness and beauty, women's clothing is often called "red makeup" in Chinese, which refers to beautiful women. Or call a woman's beautiful appearance "beauty", which also means beauty.
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