Red color is very popular in chinese culture. Ranking as the top 1 lucky color and the national color since acient China, it symbolizes happiness, success, good fortune, beauty, and vitality for chinese people. It is popularly related to many big festivalts and events. Here this passage mainly introduces how red color is used to symbolize so many good things for chinese people.
1. Traditional chinese weddings. Red color is mostly used in a traditional chinese wedding. All the clothes the bride wear shall be in red. Dowry of the bride supported by her parents shall be painted with red color or tagged with a red mark written with chinese words contaning all good wishes. Candies given to all guests participating in the wedding are usually wrapped in red boxes.
2. During Chinese New Year, each chinese family household shall paste spring couplets and pictures on both sides of all the gates of their houses. The spring couplets and pircutres are all in red color written with poems containing all good wishes for the beginning of a new year. Moreover, the money given to children as a lunar new year gift shall all be put into red paper bags. This is one of the most important reasons why so many children are so eager for the spring festival all over the year.
3. Except for traditional chinese wedding and important chinese festivals, red color is also widely used in any opening cerenomies of big events of the whole country or opening cerenomies of small individual businesses. Red items used in those ceremonies include red carpet, red desk cloth covering desks or tables for meetings, red fresh flowers preparing for the ceremonies and even red firecrakers to welcome success of such big and significant ceremonies.
From the content about you could feel how red color is so widely used and so important in China. Next time when you come to China, make sure you experience some of the big events or festivals yourself to see the magic and glamor of this fantastic color.
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