Green is the color of plants，trees，and woods。It corresponds to spring and the East and has a strange meaning in China。A man who wears a green hat has a wife who is cheating on him. Chinese men avoid green hats, especially if they have beautiful wives[...]
Yellow is the color of earth. It corresponds to the Center. Yellow was reserved for the Emperor and members of the imperial family. No commoner was allowed to wear imperial yellow colors, except by permission from the Emperor[...]
The word white also signifies uselessness and lack of success[...]
When my grandmother died, my big sister and I walked behind her coffin wearing white clothes with white ribbons in our hair[...]
For thousands of years, white used to be the color of mourning and death[...]
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