The Han Chinese custom of red and yellow

In the reverence for color, the Han Chinese have the custom of red and yellow.

Shang red, as early as in the "Rituals - Tan Gong" on the record said: "the Zhou people Shang red". This "still red" customs in the ancient Han people have many manifestations: China's ancient name "Kyushu", also known as "Red County Shenzhou"; "Red Birds "is regarded as a bird of paradise, but also as an alias for the sun; the purity and kindness of filial piety is known as the "red son", loyalty and sincerity of the noble character known as the "red heart"; the main raw material of the glorious bronze culture of the Shang and Zhou copper, known as the "red gold". "Red gold". Over time, the color of fire as "red", then developed into a general reference to the general red.

Because the Han Chinese take red as a symbol of good luck, festivity, and beauty, they often call women's dress "red makeup" and refer to beautiful women with "red makeup"; or call women's beautiful appearance "red", also referring to beautiful women. ", also refers to the beauty; or the young woman's housing is called "red boudoir"; and even the men and women who dress up for a trip are also known as "red men and women". Not only that, the Han Chinese folk red as a symbol of revolution, the peasants revolt, some called "Red Eyebrows Army", some called "Red Turbans", and "Red Zoroastrian Army", "

In the modern new democratic revolution, the workers and peasants under the leadership of the Chinese **** was also called the "red army".

In the Han Chinese folk customs of congratulations on the birthday, wedding, are to use red to decorate the environment, rendering the atmosphere, such as children to hang red cloth on the door, congratulations on the birthday of the birthday to use red paper to tie, the bride to wear red, the New Year's gift should be pasted with red paper, New Year's Day and festivals to send money to red paper packaging, commonly known as the "red paper package". All of this is commonly known as "red wedding".

The Han Chinese in the red and yellow at the same time. "White Tiger Tongyi - No." cloud "yellow, and the color, the nature of nature, the world is not easy." Yellow for the five colors in the most noble, on behalf of the central, therefore, the ancient Han emperors are honored yellow for the color, the emperor wore the dragon robe, also known as the "yellow robe"; rituals to wear yellow clothes to show that the grand, solemn; not only the Taoist respect for the yellow, yellow service, but also the Buddhist view of the yellow plain and elegant, absolute vulgarity, there is a transcendent flavor of the outside world, so its clothing, Architecture and other decorative yellow, utensils more "gilt" (i.e., "painted gold"). Han Chinese folk yellow is the most typical of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Yellow Turban Uprising", and even put forward the "Cangtian has died, when the yellow sky, the age of Azi, the world's most auspicious" political slogans.

In addition, the Han Chinese also taboo white, that white represents sadness, pain and death, so the funeral rites are white to express solemn mourning. The funeral is also commonly known as the "white happy".