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What colors mean
By Tingting Cojuangco
The Philippine STAR 08/07/2005
In the process of scanning through the Internet, my Fire Officer Roger Pesa found this information on colors. Find your favorite shade and see what it means around the world.
Red
For the ancient Romans, a red flag was a signal for battle.
Because of its visibility, stop signs, stoplights, brake lights, and fire equipment are all painted red.
In Russia, red means beautiful. The Bolsheviks used a red flag as their symbol when they overthrew the star in 1917. That is how red became the color of communism.
In India, red is the symbol for a soldier.
In South Africa, red is the color of mourning.
It’s considered good luck to tie a red bow on a new car.
In China, red is the color of good luck and is used as a holiday and wedding color. Chinese babies are given their names at a red-egg ceremony.
A red-letter day is one of special importance and good fortune.
In Greece, eggs are dyed red for good luck at Easter time.
To paint the town red is to celebrate.
The redshirts were the soldiers of the Italian leader Garibaldi, who unified modern Italy in the 19th century.
To see red is to be angry.
A red herring is a distraction, something that takes attention away from the real issue.
If a business is in the red, it is losing money. Green
nly one national flag is a solid color: The green flag of Libya.
Ancient Egyptians colored the floors of their temples green.
In Ancient Greece, green symbolized victory.
In the highlands of Scotland, people wore green as a mark of honor.
Green means go. When all systems are green, it means everything is in order.
The green room of a concert hall or theater is where performers relax before going onstage.
A greenhorn is a newcomer or unsophisticated person.
Being green around the gills is looking pale and sickly.
Green with envy means full of envy or jealousy.
A person with a green thumb is good at making plants grow. Blue
In Ancient Rome, public servants wore blue. Today, police and other public servants wear blue.
In China, blue is for little girls.
In Iran, blue is the color of mourning.
Blue was used as protection against witches, who supposedly dislike the color.
If you are true blue, you are loyal and faithful.
Feeling blue is feeling sad. Blue devils are feelings of depression.
Something out of the blue is from an unknown source at an unexpected time.
A bluebook is a list of socially prominent people.
The first prize gets a blue ribbon.
A blue blood is a person of noble descent. This is probably from the blue veins of the fair-complexioned aristocrats who first used this term.
Into the blue means into the unknown.
A bluenose is a strict, puritanical person.
A bluestocking used to be a scholarly or highly knowledgeable woman.
The pharaohs of Ancient Egypt wore blue for protection against evil.
The blues is a style of music derived from Southern African-American secular songs. It influenced the development of rock, R&B, and country music. Purple and Violet
The Egyptian queen Cleopatra loved purple. To obtain one ounce of Tyrian purple dye, she had her servants soak 20,000 purpura snails for 10 days.
In Thailand, purple is worn by a widow mourning her husband’s death.
A purple heart is a US military decoration for soldiers wounded or killed in battle.
Purple robes are an emblem of authority and rank.
Purple prose is writing that is full of exaggerated literary effects and ornamentation.
Purple in a child’s room is said to help develop the imagination according to color theory. Yellow
In Egypt and Burma, yellow signifies mourning.
In Spain, executioners once wore yellow.
In India, yellow is the symbol for a merchant or farmer.
In 10th-century France, the doors of traitors and criminals were painted yellow.
Hindus in India wear yellow to celebrate the festival of spring.
If someone is said to have a yellow streak, that person is considered a coward.
In Japan during the War of Dynasty in 1357, each warrior wore a yellow chrysanthemum as a pledge of courage.
A yellow ribbon is a sign of support for soldiers at the front.
Yellow is a symbol of jealousy and deceit.
In the Middle Ages, actors portraying the dead in a play wore yellow.
To holistic healers, yellow is the color of peace.
Yellow in Southeast Asia means sacred and imperial. It is reserved for the person of the highest rank.
In Malaysia, there is even a particular shade of yellow, which may be worn only by the King.
Filipino Muslims, being part of this Southeast Asian culture, have adopted yellow as a color reserved only for the sultan, believing that the sultan was the descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, hence belonging to a noble and royal family.
The holy Qur’an is also yellow, a symbol of sacredness. White
A white flag is the universal symbol for truce.
White means mourning in China and Japan.
Angels are usually depicted wearing white robes.
The ancient Greeks wore white to bed to ensure pleasant dreams.
A white elephant is a rare, pale elephant considered sacred to the people of India, Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. In this country, it is a either a possession that costs more than it is worth to keep or an item that the owner doesn’t want but can’t get rid of.
To whitewash is to gloss over defects or make something seem presentable that isn’t.
A white knight is a rescuer.
A whiteout occurs when there is zero visibility during a blizzard.
A white sale is a sale of sheets, towels, and other bed and bath items.
A whited sepulcher is a person who is evil inside but appears good on the outside, or a hypocrite. Black
The ancient Egyptians and Romans used black for mourning. So do most Europeans and Americans today.
The Blackshirts were the security troops in Hitler’s German army, also known as the SS.
Black humor is morbid or unhealthy and gloomy humor.
In China, black is for little boys.
A black-hearted person is evil.
A blacklist is a list of persons or organizations to be boycotted or punished.
Black is associated with sophistication and elegance. A black-tie event is formal.
A black belt in karate identifies an expert.
The ancient Egyptians believed that black cats had divine powers.
Black lung is a coal miner’s disease caused by the frequent inhaling of coal dust.
Blackmail is getting things by threat.
A black market is illegal trade in goods or money.
A black sheep is an outcast.
When you black out, you temporarily lose consciousness.* * *
We do live in a colorful world! Sunday Life