In the community, Chinese defines color composition by the five elements, which reflects their comprehension of time and space in the universe. The five elements, east, west, south, north and center, compose the space. Each element has a designated color; the base color of east is dark blue; west is white; south is red; north is black; and center is yellow. The four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter that rotate all year long, correspond to the colors of the five elements. Dark blue is for spring; red for summer; yellow for long summer, white for autumn and black for winter; corresponding to five totem animals, are dark blue dragon of the east; white tiger of the west; red sparrow of the south; black turtle of the north and central yellow; corresponding to humanized legendary god, are dark blue emperor of the east, white emperor of the west; red emperor of the south; black emperor of the north and yellow emperor of the central
region; corresponding to the five elements of gold, timber, water, fire and earth, are dark blue timber, white gold, red fire, black water and yellow earth.
