Tuesday, July 26, 2011

THE MEANING OF COLORS IN CHINA

Color symbolism can vary between various cultures around the world, and the way people perceive colors are completly different. In China, for example, unlike western cultures white represents death and chinese people use white instead of black during funerals. This is due to the fact that they associate white with the winter time in which nature is dead.



Figure 1. White representing death.



Red symbolizing celebration and luck is used in many cultural cerimonies such as weddings.


Figure 2. Red is used in many cultural cerimonies such as weddings.

Green means vigor and energy. Another thing related to this color is that a green hat indicates a man's wife is cheating on him.

Figure 3. Green means vigor and energy.

Yellow is associate with pornography, and also with the royalty, because in ancient China Huang Di was known as the Yellow Emperor because his army tribe honored the value of the yellow earth, which is a symbol of farming.



Figure 4. When a men wears a green hat also means that his wife is cheating on him.

Figure 5. Yellow earth, which is a symbol of farming is a color related to the royalty because of the Yellow Emperor .

The meanig of colors in colombia

The first color is about cold. It is yellow.
Colombia people think yellow means gold.
In my think, most important and precious
thing is knowledge. So, knowledge is regarded
as gold because both are precious in terms of this.
















The blue is about water. I chosed water bottle
to represent water because water bottle contains
water.
















The red is about blood of patroit. I chosed this picture
to represent this bacause I weared red clothe and
my emotion was pain which people have when they
bleed.

Meaning of colors in Venezuela



I tried to show the meaning of red color which is a negative idea, same as communism. Cutting paper money represents a denial about the private property, so it symbolizes the communism. Venezuelan people, however, don't want to live in commusim.


Orange color means hope in Venezuela. So I drew this small character who wants to grab something like a hope. It represents that he will not give up, even if he is in big trouble.

Yellow means wealth, riches, or money. In order to express these, I made the first letter of the word gold, "G", using coins in front of paper money.

My handamde book



MY SPECIAL HANDMADE BOOK

A single signature pamphlet bound book in pictures.



Figure 1:Double sheet front cover labelled "Welcome to my world" with joy





Figure 2: Multi-coloured pages for each stage of my life






Figure 3: The middle page showing a very neat bind





Figure 4: Double sheet back cover of my book with the inscription "Simple Pleasures"






Figure 5: The bind on the reverse side of the book

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Memory Books for Our Fulbright Family