【正文】 “yellow line” is the yellow lines prohibit or restrict parking on both sides of the road. To help the user quickly identify and classify mercial telephone number, phonebook is always printed by yellow paper, known as the “Yellow Pages”, and so on. It is the modern times that we connect yellow with pornography fornication, corruption and degeneration because of the “yellow back” in English. So there are expressions, such as “yellow novel”, “yellow movie”, etc. In fact, in English yellow does not directly express the meaning of “pornography”, but the implied meaning of “sensational”. For example, “yellow journalism” means “irresponsible wanton exaggeration, rendering the news reports.” Yellow also shows the immature and ignorant young people, for example, “yellowhaired girl” or “yellowmouthed boy” in Chinese is also often used to represent. Green Green puts people in mind of nature, green grasslands, green grass in Chinese, so it means quiet, nature, and health. For example, green food, green industry, green Olympics and the Green Revolution. Green symbolizes life, and therefore also a symbol of harmony and peace. So people in the traffic signal system with the “green light” to road are allowed to pass. Thus the “green light” has the meaning of approval and release. For example, “Only studio heads can greenlight new movies.” “We are ready to rebuild the our house, we’ re just waiting for the green light from the Council”. However, green is also used to mean “humble” or “of bad reputation”. For example, “green hat” is not necessarily a green hat but often indicates a cuckold. In Chinese, the color of blue can be replaced by “qing”. “Woman in qing buliding” refers to a woman driven to be a prostitute, for “qing building” in Chinese often implies a brothel instead of a building of green color. In China, especially in the feudal society, the dress of the government official on a lower level was regularized to be green, so it also symbolizes humble. “Green clothing” is the symbol of low position in the official 15 career. Blue It seems that blue is a favorable word to Chinese. The blue sky and sea often arouse us to yearn for a better future and the feelings of distance, calmness and justice. In Chinese, the color of blue can also be replaced by “qing”, thus “qing sky” and “qing cloud” both refer to the blue sky. Because “blue sky” in a fine day is always cloudless, making people feel bright and clear, “qing sky” in Chinese often refers to a just judge or an upright person. Blue is often connected with the sea and sunny sky, and it makes people feel fortable and relaxed. If someone is emotional or wants to calm down, soft blue can take an effective effect. So blue means a symbol of peace and quiet. In addition, “Blue picture” es from the English word “blueprint.” The former refers to the design drawings, named for its blue. It refers to the construction of the basis used，planning as well as people of the grand vision of the future. White White in Chinese culture is used of a wide range of rich colors implication, its symbolic meaning is mendatory but major is derogatory. White symbolizes the meaning of clear, innocence and understanding, for example, “the truth is white” means that finding the truth and putting cause and effect outs of the public to the world. “Wrong is not white” means that it is unable to crack the grievance. “Express the white” or “tell the white” refers to tell the truth, express one’s thought, show one’s love or explain the clear meaning. White, opposite to red, is a basic taboo color in Chinese traditional culture. It is the expression stands for death and ill omen. For example, when one died his family members must dress in white, and held a funeral and this is called “white event”. In Chinese feudal society, the mon people were forbidden to dress in any other colors except white, so they were called “white clothing”. The persons with no position are “white man,” their houses are “white house”. Besides, White in Chinese also means failure. In a war, the yielding party will hang “white flag” as a sign of accepting its failure. 16 Black Black contains the bad, unlucky or bad imagery in Chinese. The reason is mainly that night often shows dark, fear, terror and pain. In Chinese people who do bad things is called “black heart.” “Black society” means an illegal social organization. “Black shop” refers to an inn ran by brigands. “Black goods” is the unlawful carrying or selling goods. “Black residence” refers to a family without registration. However, black is a solemn and serious color with the heavy sense of mystery, and expresses more mendatory. For example, in traditional Chinese Folklore judge Baogong has a “black face”, an untouchable morally. In traditional Peking Opera Zhangfei or Likui is also painted “black facial makeup”, symbolizing justice, upright and impartial. The Sense of the Basic Colors in English Red Westerners are accustomed to holiday in the calendar printed in red font, therefore in English the word “redletter day”, means festival or festive day， so red in English has also been the meaning of joy, but this expression in English is very limited. Besides, in western when Wele VIP courtesy, red is always used to pay tribute. For example, the mon red carpet wele to the heads of other countries, to symbolize each other’s dignity and square grand wele reception. Red has also the meaning that one is healthy both in English and Chinese, for example, “red face (with a face as red as a rose)”. “Red is associated with certain emotions.” For example, “She bees red faces”. “Her face turned red”. “I can see that he is in red with anger”, etc. However, in Englishspoken countries, red is always described as derogatory sence. First, red is the symbol of the violence and blood.