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Five colors in Taoism and China traditional culture, namely: blue (or green), red (red), white, black and yellow; Taoism combines five elements and five colors to explain many connotations. For example, when it is combined with five parties, it thinks that each of the five colors represents an orientation, so it is also called five-party color. At the same time, the five-color culture has also spread in the cultural circle of Chinese characters and become the national five-color of South Korea.

Taoism matches the five colors with the five elements, and explains the five colors with the five elements. This theory applies to five colors, namely, green (east), red (south), yellow (middle), white (west) and black (north).

This theory is applied to explain the alternation of dynasties, which is called "five virtues". For example, the Zhou Dynasty belongs to fire virtue (red) and the Qin Dynasty belongs to water virtue (black), so for the Qin Dynasty (water to fire) is a natural law.

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Five colors can be divided into five normal colors and five intermediate colors (ancient books are also written as "idle colors"). Confucius once said that "evil purple robs Zhu" [1], and Huang Kan of Nanliang defined a set of theories of positive color and intermediate color in turn in On Semantic Sparsity.

It is considered that "green, red, white, black and yellow" are positive colors, "green, red, blue, purple and purple" are corresponding intermediate colors, and all official colors are positive colors rather than intermediate colors. He believes that Confucius' so-called "evil purple usurps Zhu" means that purple is the middle color and red is the positive color. It is disgusting to regard evil as a substitute for positive.

The five colors of Buddhism and Taoism are similar, so Buddhism has converged after it was introduced into the Han Dynasty, and Tibetan areas have also been affected. The "orange" in the five colors of traditional Buddhism is mostly replaced by black and birch (black and yellow) in Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

China Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of tying five colors. Five-color wisp, also known as five-color wisp, five-color line, five-color charm, five-color line, longevity wisp and so on. , is a thread made of five colors, worn on the wrist, ankle or body, and often used as a protective ornament to attract wealth and ward off evil spirits.

Buddhism also has five colors, influenced by Taoism, and the five colors of Buddhism also have the five colors of applying Taoism. The thread can also be strung with crystals and beads of later generations, which are called five-element beads.

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