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fin to the cemetery. In the past, autumn was represented by white, guarded by a white tiger and its direction was west. Because of political influence, white symbolizes backward, rottenness and surrender, for instance, when an army fails, the soldier plays a “white flag” to show their surrenders; a person with low intelligence, we call “idiot”. Finally white signifies one with little knowledge, no fame and no gain, we call “the commoner”. In English culture, the symbolic meanings of white color focus on color itself, such as snow, fresh milk and the color of lily. Westerners think white stands for grace and purity. When a woman wears a white wedding dress, she is a virgin. Sometimes a woman who is getting married for the second time she may not wear pure white. She may wear off-white or even some other color. On Christmas Day white-colored ornaments are seen everywhere in decorating Christmas trees and houses in most Western countries. On wedding days, girls are wearing white bridal-dresses in churches. “White” in their mind is the symbol of purity and lucky. However, most Chinese girls prefer “red” on the point of choosing colors owing to different customs. White is the advocating color in the Western culture. White symbolizes purity in Western culture, for example a white soul, white wedding; white symbolizes honest and upright in Western culture, such as, a white spirit means honest soul, a white man is noble, an educated person; it symbolizes lucky too, white is the traditional color for the brides at weddings. To wear white clothes at funerals would be offensive, so care should be take in translating the phrase“红白喜事”. To avoid misunderstanding, we can put it simple as weddings and funerals. Talking about red and white, there is an interesting coincidence in Chinese and English. In Chinese, those who are popular and favor with their bosses are called“红人”(red guy literally). But Irish people call them “the white-headed boy”. In this sense, red equals white in the two cultures. We have a famous drama called(Bai Mao Nv). If we translate it as A White-haired Girl, those Western people will be confused and it will be very hard to see the profound meaning. C. Black The color of black has seriously mysterious senses in Chinese culture. It is a kind of serious tone. Its symbolic meaning seems comparatively complicated for the influence of Western culture. On one hand, it symbolizes serious, justice such as black face Bao Zheng in the popular legend, black types of facial make up of Zhang Fei, li Kui in traditional BeiJing opera, etc; On other hand, it symbolizes evilly, reactionary, such as vicious person is a black heart, hidden repulsive inside information is “shady deal”, evil backstage manipulator; it shows crime, such as do bandit conduct shout “walk the underworld”, do illegal inn of business named the gangster, the violated goods trade is called the black market. Black is also used to name the dirty money that the money is obtained by illegal means. Black is a basic taboo color in Western culture. Black reflects spiritual abandoning and disgust of Westerner. It symbolizes the death, ill omen, and disaster, for example, Black Mass fits fairy Mass, to wear black for her father’s death, black words are unlucky words, the fierce day is a black letter day; black symbolizes the evilness, crime, such as Blackman, a black deed, blackguard, and blackmail; it symbolizes shame, inglorious too, for instances a black eye, a black mark, a