Red:

In France , it is the hot color par excellence. Color of the action, it is dynamic, brutal, it is exciting until the irritation. It is the warlike color, that of the victorious love, it is essential without discretion. It is a dry, exciting, strong and projecting color. It represents the present, stability and the material world.

The red is the color which has the most impact on our physiological functions. It excites the directions and activates blood circulation. It is undoubtedly for this reason that one always associated it with passion, the sensuality and the desire The red translates the exubérance, speed. The red draws the attention and warns. The red, color of blood, evoke the war, anger, violence and the aggressivity, as in the expressions " to see rouge" and " red of colère" , as well as other emotions, as in the expressions " red of confusions" , " red of honte" or the red which went up to him to the joues". It is the color of fresh blood and of the fire which, according to the old beliefs created the world and will destroy it. It symbolizes the life, heat and the generation, but also the destruction. The bright red or clear is the vital force, the richness and the love, but also selfishness, hatred and the infernal love.

At the psychological level, the red represents the love of life, optimism, strength, the combative instinct and its aggressives tendencies, the sexual instinct, the desire in love, passion, the need for conquest…

In Europe, in the world and the history: In Egypt, the red symbolized the divine love. Color of the Evil, Seth, the god of the destruction is represented with red eyes and hair. It is also the symbol of violence, the desert, blood, of death, but also of the victory. The crown of Low-Egypt, the desheret, is red.

In the crowned texts of the Christian, Egyptians, Hebrews and Arabs, this color always was associated with fire and the divine love, and symbolized the divinity and the worship. Among Christians, they is the colors of the Infernal Forces.

In Rome, it is the color of the generals, the nobility, the experts and the emperors (the cardinals inherited this symbol of sovereignty.

In the Extrème-East, the red has positive values.

In China, it is emblem of the Dynasty Cabbage

In Japan, it symbolizes the harmony and the expansion. The red incarnates sincerity and happiness.

In Peru, it was related to the war and designated the soldiers.

Orange:

In France, it is still a color very hot, intimate, accessible. Less brutal than the red, but very sharp. It evokes naturellementle fire, the sun, the light and heat.

Yellow

In France, the luminous, worthy yellow evokes the material richness like that of the spirit, and the domination. It is the color most clearly, merriest, radiant and young, tonic and bright. The yellow remains luminous, but loses its force when it is mixed with the white. The yellow will be very different according to whether it is yellow but, still credit or greenish and pale yellow, approaching the balance of the green already

Color of solar light, emblem of the gold, associated with honey, the yellow was the color of the celestial light revealed with the men and the religious doctrines taught in the temples. Among Christians, the yellow is symbol of eternity and faith. But the lunar yellow, color of lor tarnished is sulfur symbolizes inconstancy, the jealousy, dépravées passions, pride, adultery, the culpability, treason (in the iconography, Judas is vêtu of yellow; in several countries, the Jews were to wear yellow clothing because Judas had betrayed Christ). In 1269, Saint Louis obliged the Jews, considered since the crusades as the allies of the Moslems, to carry a round slice of yellow color, as a sign of infamy. On the XX°, the Nazis imposed to the Jews, the port of yellow star. With the XVI°, one painted in yellow the door of the traitors. (the strikebreakers were called " jaunes")

Symbol of the spring rebirth of the time of Easter, with the generosity of the ground (at the time of corn harvests, corn and other cereals).

The yellow has its less positive side all the same. It is associated with the disease, the yellow house announces forty on the ships, like with the embarrassment and the spite, as in the expression " to laugh jaune".

From the psychological point of view, and in the dreams, the yellow is the color of the intuition and symbolizes the capacity of renewal, the spirit, youth and the audacity, But also often instability and vanity. It reveals a need for superiority and with the extreme, the blind will for power expressed in claims exaggerated with a factitious superiority (often compensation of a sense of inferiority badly liquidated or unconscious).

See too

• Symbolic system of the colors in ancient Egypt