Different colors have been surrounding and influencing man through all the history of mankind. Nevertheless, not till recent time people have started to make a close study of this subject and have learnt to reproduce and render the colors.
Nowadays the colors have been found reflection in many spheres of human life, in common life, in language, in music, even in economics and in many others.
The symbolism of colors in common life is the most developed side of the issue has foundits expression in numerous traditions, superstations and legends for as we know from time immemorial people tried to recognize and to explain things and phenomena taking place around them.
Perhaps it was the most primitive explanation of the meaning of the colors has taken source in the inner human perception of the matter and it has served the base for the modern scientific study of colors and their various properties.
So, we shall start with the description of meanings of colors. The main colors interpreted from this point of view are those most widely met in life, red, black, white, yellow, blue, green.
We shall touch upon different notions understandings of colors and see that some (things) time the meaning of colors coincides for most notions though in some cases the understandings of one equivalent and they are even contrary with different notions.
Since the most an went times people have showed special liking to the red color. In many languages the same word means “red color” and “beautiful”. The Polynesians the word “red” is the synonym of the word “beloved”. In China they call a sincere honest person “a red heart” in Uzbek “oq ko’ngil odam”, mean person they say that this his heart is black — qora yurak, ichi qora. Red is first of call associated with blood and fire. Its symbolic meanings are very diverse and contradictory on one hand red symbolizes beauty love and completeness of life but on the other hand it is connected with hostility, revenge, war, aggressiveness and carnal desires.
Red is the main heraldic color on banners is symbolizes riot, revolution fight and independence.
Warriors of many tribes of Africa, America and Australia preparing for a war painted their bodies and faces in red.
The Carthaginians and Spartans were wearing red clothes in war time. The rebels in Ancient China called themselves “red warriors”, “red spears”, “red brows” — “qizil askarlar”.
The leader of English peasants Walt Taylor was known under the name of Red Rider.
People also attached healing properties ability to withstand an evil eye to red color. It is considered that red threads, red (English) Easter eggs, red cloth, corals, red plants help against evil spirit.
Red also symbolizes power and greatness. In Vizantia it was it was only Queen who could wear red boots. The Emperor signed with purple ink and sit on the purple throne. The emphasized attention to the purple color which was extremely expensive being produced from thousands of special sort shells and which was therefore available only for kings is explained by the fact that purple connected in itself two unconnectable by their nature parts of the spectrum blue and red in the case of royal clothes blue symbolized everything eternal heavenly, red — earthly.
For many people red symbolizes South flame, heat. In some Asian cultures the South was usually associated with red color, the North — with black, the West — with white and East — with yellow and blue.
The symbolic meaning of red color spread upon plants with red flowers and fruits especially on a rose, a pink, a woman and a guilder rose.
In the Slovenian folklore the guilder rose is a symbolic beauty and virginity. The color of blood. A red rose — qip — qizil atirgul. Of a bright brownish — orange of color. Pink, use for a short time she turned red with embarrassment — U hijolatdan qizardi. The child’s eyes were red — Bolaning ko’zlari qizil edi. (Ppolytical) socialist or communist Red Army — qizil armiya.
White color symbolizes purity, underfilement, virtue and joy. It associated with daylight and the heavenly bodies as well as with the producing power which is embodied in milk and egg. White milk — oppoq sut. Whitishness is connected with the notion of everything evident, conventional, true.
Vestal virgins of ancient Rome Wore white dresses with purple ending and white vials. Since the antiquity white color has been having the meaning of aspiration for spiritual simplicity.
In Christianity white means the relation with the divine light, angels, saints and pious are pictured in white: Vizantion writers spoke of the whiteness of the truth. Same people rulers and priests more white clothes what was symbolizing solemnity and greatness. In the Lithuanian language “white people” means honest people, in Hungarian “white people” are women. In Russian “white” mean free independent noble, just “White Russia” — “Ozod Rossiya”, “white tsar”, “white peasants” free of any assessment, “white land” Church’s land, white world according to Vidal is unrestricted open world free in all directions. This world is contrasted to the life hereafter to the land of darkness, the same way as a white day is contrasted to a black night. During the first they were wearing white shirts and were putting sanction at Easter time egg into the seeds for them to grow as pure and white as the egg.
However white color may have the contrary meaning as well. By its nature it as if absorbs, naturalized all the other colors and the whole material.
It correlates with empathies immateriality and in the and with the death Slovenians dressed their dead in white clothes and covered them with a white cerement.
In some African and Australian tribes people used to point their bodies in white after death of a relative.
In China and some other Asian countries white is considered the color of mourning. In old times white mourning clothes were also used by Slovenians. They say it is in white that ghosts and spooks come to people.
In old times in some regions of Russia people called the house spirit “a white man”. The polish calls the death “the white” and “to marry the while” means to die.
The color of milk: salt or show. Pain in color e.g. Her face was white with Sear. Uning yuzi qo’rquvdan oqarib ketdi. The color of a very old person’s hair. A pale — skinned race. A white neighborhood — oqibatli qo’shnichilik. Honest, noble. e.g. white man/heart — Oq ko’ngil odam. Reactionary e.g. white emigration