What five colors were used as positive colors in ancient times?

Blue, yellow, red, white and black also refer to various colors. In ancient times, these five colors were used as positive colors.

Summer is fire and the color is red, so people use red as a festive gift; Autumn and winter are the seasons from aging to death. Autumn belongs to gold, the color is white, winter belongs to water, and the color is black, so the people's mourning turns from white to black. The green color of spring (spring belongs to wood and the color is blue) is regarded as a symbol of life, and its significance is self-evident. In addition, soil occupies a central position in the five elements and is the noblest. The yellow of the native land is often used as the special clothing color of the emperor.

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In Han culture, "green" has obvious connection with concepts such as spring and orient, and these concepts have certain connection with green. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Shen said in Shuowen: "Green, Oriental color, wood fire, from life to Dan." "Green is the color of the East, and Di Qing is the God of the East."

It shows that the orientation of cyan is the color of oriental spring wood in the five elements, and the word Qingyang is synonymous with spring. King Wen's method of "looking up at the sky and overlooking the geography" when talking about gossip should be to take something representative from nature, that is, the color of "Aoki" sprouted by new leaves in spring.