The meaning and symbol of yellow

Yellow means brilliant, rich, bright, warm, noble, brilliant wisdom, harvest and hope. It symbolizes wealth and power.

Because yellow is a brilliant color, it not only presents a brilliant color, but also has the same brilliance as the sun, symbolizing the light source that illuminates the darkness. And yellow presents golden light, representing power and wealth. Yellow is also a proud color. If it represents elegance and dignity in the East, the ancient emperors of China regarded yellow as a special color.

At the same time, yellow gives people a feeling of lightness, hope and vitality. Yellow is always associated with gold, the sun, enlightenment and other things. Many flowers that bloom in spring are yellow, so yellow also symbolizes new life. In many countries, yellow also represents timidity and cowardice. Some countries think that yellow stands for jealousy and yellow flag stands for disease isolation and quarantine.

In China's Five Elements Theory, the matching of yellow and earth was often regarded as a symbol of monarchy in the eyes of the ancients. "Land is precious" originated from the thought of "respecting scholars" of ancient agricultural nationalities. Since then, this thought has been combined with the Confucian thought of great unification, and it is believed that the great unification dynasty with the Han nationality as the main body is such an empire in the "central soil", which is different from the surrounding "four foreigners", thus linking "Huang" with "orthodoxy" and "respect" through the soil, providing "rationality" arguments for the monarch's rule. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the dragon fights in the wild, and the blood is yellow": in the dragon war, the blood is yellow, and the monarch takes the dragon as a symbol, so the color is more directly related to the monarch. In this way, yellow symbolizes the divine right of the monarch and represents dignity, solemnity, supremacy and sacredness.

Yellow is a symbol of China culture. China people are of yellow race, and there was a "Yellow Emperor" in ancient times. We often call ourselves "descendants of the Yellow Emperor" and call the day suitable for holding major ceremonies auspicious.

Buddhism also advocates yellow, and the robes of monks and lamas are yellow. Interpretation of Ming Dynasty as a Colorful Bo: "Yellow, also, still swaying, like the color of sunlight", symbolizing light. Especially in Tibetan Buddhism, there are many representative meanings: yellow represents prosperity; In the five-color prayer flags, yellow symbolizes the land; The specific color of the Gelug Sect in the five major sects of Tibetan Buddhism is also yellow, because the cassock and the monk's hat worn by this Sect are yellow.

Yellow visual communication

Yellow. Like orange and red, yellow is a warm color. It has the meaning of nature, sunshine and spring, and is usually regarded as a happy and hopeful color. Having said that, it may be a difficult color to deal with, and it seems that it is not as popular as several colors discussed before.

Yellow is a visible color, so it is used for health and safety equipment and danger signals. This high visibility is obvious, but it may be too eye-catching on the screen. Yellow on a white background looks hard. As mentioned above, yellow has many positive meanings, but it may also be associated with cowardice and deception, such as "yellow-paunchy" and "yellow news".

The origin of yellow

In ancient China, yellow was a noble color, but later it became derogatory because of the influence of this article. Yellow means pornography.

Today, we often use "yellow" to refer to something with obvious pornographic meaning, which has been established by everyone. As long as something is labeled with the word "yellow", it is often the object of "sweeping" and "beating". However, in ancient China, yellow was a very noble color, which was used by the royal family and was not allowed to be used by ordinary people. The change and transformation in the middle is mainly influenced by the west.

1894, a magazine named Yellow Magazine was founded in Britain, and a group of novelists, poets,

Prose writers, painters, etc. Around the magazine, a literary and art group named "Decadence School" was formed. Their works are sometimes pornographic, but they are not obscene.

However, on April 3 of the following year, Oscar Wilde, a famous British playwright, was arrested on charges of homosexuality. An incident that happened when he was arrested greatly damaged the reputation of the magazine. At that time, the newspaper said that Wilde had a yellow magazine under his arm when he was arrested, so people took it for granted that this magazine was as notorious as Wilde. The next day, someone demonstrated in front of the publisher of the yellow magazine and smashed the window glass with stones.

On the day of Wilde's arrest, the book under his arm was the novel Love of God by French writer Bill Louis, which was just different from the current law.

Like many cheap novels in China, they are also covered with yellow. This kind of novel is called "Yellow Back", which is also unpretentious. "Yellow Magazine" and "ellowback" all associate "color" with concepts such as sex, pornography and vulgarity. But at the same time, the American newspaper industry on the other side of the ocean has a different color.

At that time, new york's Le Monde and Daily were frantically competing for circulation. First, Joseph Pulitzer bought Le Monde. With vivid and sensational reports and exposure of political corruption, he won the largest circulation newspaper in the United States. W.R. Hearst, the son of a mining tycoon, bought a competitor of Le Monde.