Color Confusion (Was Re Hernia What is Qigong? -colors)

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Chinese Traditional Medicine, " walmart_hurts " <jcc@c...> wrote:

> Most of the work I have seen on the relationship between colors and

> the elements, meridians, etc., seems to fall into the realm of Feng

> Shui or Chinese Astrology.

>

> However, the information out there about this seems somewhat

jumbled

> and contradictory. From what I can make out, the extra colors

besides

> the traditional five have to do with more detailed divisions of the

> five elements, such as what one gets with the ten stems, or the

bagua.

>

>

> Joseph Yu (http://fengshui.freewebsites.com/about.htm) made the

> following color associations:

>

> Water: Black, Dark Blue

> Wood: Green

> Fire: Red, Orange, Purple, Pink

> Metal: White, Golden, Silver

> Earth: Brown, Yellow

>

>

> Others have additionally associated Wood with the color Azure and

> Brown, Fire with Peach and, Metal with Gray and Mettalic, and Earth

> with Beige, Cream and Tan.

>

> I have seen it suggested that Purple is the color of Yin Fire,

while

> Red is the color of Yang Fire, that Yellow is the color of Yang

> Earth, while Gold is the color of Yin Earth, That White is the

Color

> of Yang Metal and Silver is the color of Yin Metal, that Black is

the

> color of Yang Water, and Gray is the color of Yin Water, and that

> Green is the color of Yang Wood, while Blue is the color of Yin

Wood.

>

> Also D.H. Can den Berghe wrote a paper on the color associations of

> the Trigrams (http://www.fourpillars.net/pdf/colors.pdf) which

really

> doesn't agree with any of them.

>

> Mbanu