For Chinese, red and white are colors for life and death. Red is for celebrating wedding and giving birth; and white for funeral and memorial services for those who passed away at old age. They are referred to as red and white ceremopJes. The preference came from the warm red color of the sun and white snow in withering cold. At wedding ceremony, male wear red and woman dress in green
as "the red official and the green lady," an unity of the red sun and green earth which bear grass and crops. Different nationality has its own color preference in yin-yang thought. The tiger totem nation who regards black tiger as heaven and the father; and white tiger as earth and the mother, uses black and white as tile colors for heaven and earth, yin and yang, male and female.
