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"Color" in Chinese also carries a meaning of "beauties". I use Chinese "beauties" to illus...
"Color" in Chinese also carries a meaning of "beauties". I use Chinese "beauties" to illustrate favorite colors of different Chinese ethnic groups.
Background song: I am too Handsome (Xiang Shuai Shuai), by The Flowers Band (花儿乐队 - 香帅帅)
56 Ethnic Groups in China:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42QgSKukUQ&feature=related
Hezhe: Jewelry Blue, Light Brown, Black
(Population ranking in China: 55)
Hezhe people worship bear, tiger and deer. Light brown is a color of tigers and deer. Jewelry blue is the color of Songhuajiang River Basin, where Hezhe people reside.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/hezhe
Gaoshan: Black, Red
(Population ranking in China: 24)
Gaoshan people is a subgroup of the ancient Baiyue(百越) people, who worshiped black. Red is the color of Pinang juice. Chewing Pinang fruit is a habit of Gaoshan people. Red is often used in Gaoshan people's clothes and trappings.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/gaoshan
Korean: White, Blue, Red
(Population ranking in China: 14)
White is the most favorite color of Koreans. Koreans are known as a "white-clothes" ethnic group in China. Koreans are heavily influenced by Taoism. Red and blue in Taoism mean yang and yin, two seemingly opposite forces that are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/korean
Tibetan: Crimson, Gold
(Population ranking in China: 10)
These two colors are sacred colors of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan monk robes often use these two colors.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/tibetan
Mongolian: Lightgreen, Cerulean
(Population ranking in China: 9)
These two colors are colors of grassland (grass and sky), home of Mongols.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/mongolian
Yi: Black, Yellow, Red
(Population ranking in China: 7)
Yi people worship fire. Black, yellow and red are colors of fire (note: black is the color of ashes).
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/yi
Uighur: White, Rose, Green, Pink, Red, Mauve, Cyan Blue
(Population ranking in China: 6)
White is a sacred color of Uighur Muslims. Ethnic Uighur people love flowers. Their hats are often decorated with embroidered flowers. So the colors of flowers are favorite colors of Uighurs.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/uyghur
Hui: Green, White
(Population ranking in China: 4)
These two colors are sacred Islamic colors of Hui Muslims.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/hui
Manchurian: Royalpurple, White
(Population ranking in China: 3)
These two colors are sacred colors of Manchurians. The national flag of Qing Kingdom (the last Chinese empire ruled by Manchurians) used four colors: yellow, red, royalpurple and white. The first two are favorite colors of Han Chinese while the last two are favorite colors of Manchurian Chinese.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/manzu
Zhuang: Prussian Blue, Red
(Population ranking in China: 2)
Red represents birth, new life. Prussian blue represent living.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/zhuang
Han: Yellow, Red, Blue
(Population ranking in China: 1)
Yellow is the royal color of Chinese empires. It also represents wealth. Red represents luckiness and auspiciousness. Red and yellow are two of five pure colors defined by Confucianism. Blue represents peace. Red and blue are pure colors defined by Taoism. Confucianism and Taoism heavily influence the value system and the culture of Han Chinese.
sites.google.com/site/chn56ethnicities/Home/han
Favorite colors of more other ethnic groups, see more info of this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Sj-pRxPS4&feature=related
MA Tianyu 马天宇 (Hui)
YE Junjie 叶俊杰
HAN Geng 韩庚 (Hezhen)
ZHANG Junning 张峻宁
Amguulan 阿穆隆 (Mongolian)
ZHANG Xiaochen 张晓晨
Tashi Dhondup 扎西顿珠 (Tibetan)
ZHANG Han 张翰
Xiaokaiti Yiming 肖凯提 (Uyghur)
FU Xinbo 付辛博
WU Jing 吴京 (Manchurian)
Edwin Siu / XIAO Zhengnan 萧正楠
Ainiwa'er Ai'erken 艾尼瓦尔 艾尔肯 (Uyghur)
Jiro Wang / WANG Dongcheng 汪东城
Luowu'amu 倮伍阿木 (Yi)
HUANG Xiaoming 黄晓明
Samkho 三木科 (Tibetan)
WU Jianfei 吴建飞
Show Luo / LUO Zhixiang 罗志祥 (Gaoshan)
LI Ning 李宁
HUANG Jue 黄觉 (Zhuang)
Jad Lee / LI Xueqing 李学庆
TONG Dawei 佟大为 (Manchurian)
TIAN Liang 田亮
JIN Ri 金日 (Korean)
Fan Van / FAN Yichen 范逸臣 (Gaoshan)
Nieca Lanqin Dong / DONG Nika 董尼卡 (American + Chinese)
Takeshi Kaneshiro / JIN Chengwu 金城武 (Japanese + Chinese)
Nichkhun Horvejkul 尼琨 (Thai + Chinese)
Nicholas Tse / XIE Tingfeng 谢霆锋 (British + Chinese)
The last "handsome" guy is Bobby Yip (八两金), the top 1 Hong Kong comedian.
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