Did the Chinese recognized the pink blush of a maidens cheek, the reddening of a sexually excited breast flushed with blood, or the symbolic shape and color of a pink flower that enhanced their receptive feminine qualities. Blue interestingly is the color of blood after it is exhausted of it’s oxygen supply, a natural interplay of ying and yang.
Did these researchers take into account that Britian Invaded China 150 years ago when they forced the opium trade on the technically inferior Chinese, setting up trading companies and ‘stealing’ Hong Kong’ for 100 years. Any chance the sexually repressed Victorian British could have adopted refined Chinese customs while they were raping China of their silver and gold?
:smack: For what it’s worth, I do believe, years ago, I read that Red was for boys :mad: and Blue for girls in ancient china
Where would anyone go to really determine the ancient origins without just guessing?
The problem with your theory is that you provide no evidence. Did the Chinese have pink for girls and blue for boys? You simply assumed this was true in order to provide a basis to your theory.
Nor, does it make sense for the British to decide that the inferior Chinese (as you put it) has a smashing system for deciding which gender got which color and was way better than the ol’ British system that had it the other way around. It would seem more likely that the British would merely use the Chinese color preferences as further proof that the Chinese were inferior.
According to Our Man Cecil, the setting upon of colors for blue for boys and pink for girls didn’t happen until after WWII. I bet this had something to do with color printing for magazines. For the first time, ads and articles about clothes could be shown in color and that influenced the taste of the population.
We can speculate forever why blue for boys and pink for girls, but we simply haven’t found any evidence one way or another upon the matter.
Blue is a rather interesting color in nature because it is so rare. Some bower birds go to great lengths to find blue objects in order to decorate their bowers. This shows that they are manly enough to track down those rare resources.
According to theory, men buy women expensive and rare gifts in order to prove their worth. This however, is nonsense. I bought my wife a rare first edition 3CPO phallic card and she wasn’t at all impressed.
in ancient china