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What is the meaning of white color?

In the West, especially in Europe and the United States, white is the main color of wedding dresses, indicating the purity and steadfastness of love (it is also said to be God's favorite color). However, in the East, white is used as a mourning color. White is not a cold color or a warm color, which means that white has no color tendency. In Han Chinese culture, the color white is associated with death and mourning, such as the "white" in "red, white and happy event" refers to funeral. Today, at Chinese funerals, relatives and friends of the deceased usually wear black veils on their arms and small white flowers on their lapels as a sign of mourning and respect for their deceased loved ones. It also symbolizes failure, stupidity, no profit, such as in war, the losing side is always playing the "white flag" to indicate surrender; called the intellectually inferior people "idiots"; the effort and no benefit or no effect is called "busy for nothing! ", "white effort", "white work" and so on. It also symbolizes evil, sinister, such as "white face" treacherous. It also symbolizes shallow knowledge, no merit, "white" in feudal society is "the color of the common people", called the common people as "white Ding", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white", "white" and so on. The color "white" was the color of commoners in feudal society, and the commoners were called "white men", "white clothes" and "white bodies". Literati who lacked exercise and experience were called "white-faced scholars". In traditional theater, the white face denotes insidiousness and treachery, and doing things that offend people is compared to "singing the white face". During China's democratic revolution, the reactionary forces' frantic suppression of the revolution was known as the "White Terror". If one is not welcomed by others, one would say "being looked at in a blank way by someone"; unrepressed injustice, poor and blank. White is also often a symbol of purity.