Colour around the world:
Cultures, flags, industry
In China, as the imperial colour, yellow represents absolute power and supreme sovereignty.
In the Indian subcontinent, saffron, representing harmony of the mind with the environment, knowledge and wisdom, is worn by holy men and used in religious rites.
In the West, yellow has been associated with the fool.
In China, yellow is also the colour used to represent the earth.
The Egyptians symbolised the fertility of the Nile in the Temple of Karnak by using green in the colour scheme.
For the ancient Greeks, green was the colour of Venus, the goddess
of love and fertility.
Also See:
Egyptians
and colour
Aztecs and colour
Vikings
and colour
Romans
and colour
