What’s your favorite color?
It’s okay to talk about your personal feelings; i.e. “I like green. It kind of makes me feel relaxed and comfortable”, or “I’m quite in to blue. It’sthe kind of color that calms me down and helps me to find inner peace”.But personal feelings don’t make juicy answers with rational substantials.
Try to associate your favorite color to a person, an object, or apiece of life experience which in a way relates to the color.
For example, I like red—the kind of Ferrari Red, because I really admire Michael Schumacher, the seven-time World Champion in Formula One car race. His legends has always been encouraging me to work hard and face up against challenges. In his days, the Ferrari Red spells “victory”. It’s the kind of color that gives me power, strength and inspiration.
What color would you choose to paint the walls ofyour room?
Normally one would pick a light color that brightens up the room, soothesthe mood and comforts the mind. And you can even coin up evidences such as: “I read a news report from a magazine some months agoabout a team of scientists conducting an interesting experiment by assigning agroup of volunteers living in rooms painted in different colors. By monitoring brain waves and vitals, they came up with an interesting conclusion that people feel most relaxed and think most creatively in XXX color”.
Does any color have special meanings in yourculture?
Yellow is the dominant colorin Chinese culture. Yellow is the color of earth, the lands, and the color of harvest. In an agriculture-based civilization, the significance of lands and corps can never be over-addressed. One who owns lands is in power, so gradually yellow becomes the symbolic color of power and royalty.
Red in Chinese culture stands for fortune and wealth. Red is the color of the sun. Like many agrarian cultures, we worship the sun because it brings warmth, brightness and energy. Without the sun the corps wouldn’t grow. Therefore it’s only natural for red to become the color of fortune and wealth. For the same reason, purple shares the same meaning and is beloved by Chinese people because we see this color in the morning sun glow.
Green is the color of the spring. Without saying, it stands for life, vitality and hope.
According to the Chinese Five Basic Element Theory, black is the colorof the North, represented by the Water, which stands for wisdom and solemnness.