What Chinese red symbolizes

Chinese red symbolizes the national character of enthusiasm, progress and unity. Red is the favorite color of the Chinese nation, and has even become the cultural totem and spiritual conversion of the Chinese people, representing festivity, hilarity and peace. Chinese red and blue, glazed yellow, acacia green, the Great Wall gray, ink black and jade white constitute a colorful landscape of traditional Chinese colors.

Introduction of Chinese red:

In Chinese history, the earliest colors used were black, white, earth red and ochre, and red was the first "popular color". By the time of slavery, green, red, white, black and yellow were considered to represent the five positive colors of east, south, west, north, central and wood, gold, water and earth. In the feudal era, yellow marks the sacred, authoritative, solemn, is the symbol of wisdom and civilization, become the emperor's special color, any common people are not allowed to wear yellow clothes. Ancient yin and yang family of gold, wood, water, fire, earth five elements as five virtues, that the dynasties represent a virtue, China's Xia Dynasty popular black, Yin and Shang period popular white, Zhou Dynasty for the fire virtue, Shang Chi, and gave the red orthodox status, the early Han Dynasty for the water virtues, and then changed to the earth virtues, and ultimately changed to the fire virtues, and therefore also Shang Chi.