The traditional cultural significance of green

Because green is a very common color in nature, too common and too popular.

When we watch China literature and TV series, we can find that the official uniforms of some dynasties before China have different colors at different levels. For example, in the Song Dynasty, the official uniforms of officials with three or more products were purplish red, those of officials with four products were blue, those of officials with five products were scarlet, and those of officials with six or seven products were green and cyan. At that time, people often judged the rank of officials according to the color of official uniforms.

Green is a combination of yellow and blue, which is an intermediate color and always inferior to other positive colors. The ancients always attached importance to positive color, based on intermediate color, and always did. It is difficult for green to surpass the status of positive color, and green is often associated with base. For example, wearing a cuckold is equivalent to swearing, and all the men in prostitutes' homes wear green headscarves, which shows that their status is very low and it is hard to say.

As we all know, the expression of green in ancient times is very humble and shameful. However, with the further changes of society, people's concept of green has changed greatly. Nowadays people often regard green as a symbol of youth, peace and life. Contrary to ancient times, it is a kind of advocating thought. Green is endowed with many beautiful meanings and is a protective color.

In the ancient five elements theory, green represents wood, which is the color of most plants and also symbolizes the season when everything grows in spring. And in many countries, the clothes of the army are green. With the arrival of a period, green has been endowed with the characteristics of that period, such as forgiveness, candy green, olive green and so on. Avocado green is particularly popular in 20 19, so there is no distinction between high and low in any color, only the times.