No, it is not by a fluke of chance that our color is red! Red color is a color of love, passion, energy, warmth, optimism. The color of life. Red, how I love you red.
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The red color in Serbian mythology wards off spells, evil eye, protects from the demon: a bride puts on a red cloak going to the wedding; a pregnant woman ties a red thread around her finger when she steps out of the house into the dark; child's navel is tied strictly with a red band. The sower ties a red thread on the finger of his right hand and a bag with seeds when sowing; at harvest, red thread is used to tie the unreaped patches at the end of the field.
Eggs are colored red at Easter.
Based on the red color of the rainbow spectrum predictions were made of the quality of wine in the current year.
In dreams the red color foretold a surprise.
Holy in many countries, the red color symbolizes health and a fighting spirit. The Arabs thought the person wearing red is protected by God. With the ancient Romans, the red light was equaled to the holy fire.
In the whole world the red stands for the human states and emotions: courage, revolution, sin, passion - life. No wonder poets write about it: "Friday I taste life", wrote Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, greatest American poet) in 1866. "A circus passed the house - still I feel the red in my mind."
For thousands of years artists had tried to produce a fiery red color they had seen in nature. Just before the 5th century B.C. painters in Asia discovered that red can be obtained from the mineral cinnabar (the most important mineral of mercury). Cinnabar was used in China to emphasize the text on scrolls; later in Pompeii in the fresco painting, but it had some drawbacks: it was expensive, poisonous and had an unwelcome property of turning black in the light. Yet, as this was the best red color that could be found, cinnabar was used and glorified for more than a thousand years.
An unreachable, expensive and powerful symbol, red habit was available only to the rich and the nobility. Kings wore red, as did the cardinals. In Persia, the shah alone wore red. In ancient Rome the red was a symbol of power: the most influential people in the city called themselves coccinati: those wearing red. It is because the red color emphasized in a mysterious way the presence of self-confidence, our perception of us as beings with their place in the world.
From times immemorial to this day, red has been a synonym of strength and courage. Red stimulates, provides energy, intensifies power and maintains the flame of vitality.
