{"id":4059,"date":"2026-09-13T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:56:17","slug":"signification-blanc-culture-chinoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/fr\/white-meaning-chinese-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Signification du blanc dans la culture chinoise : coutumes et tabous"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4059\" class=\"elementor elementor-4059\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adc18d7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"adc18d7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e01c71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e01c71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Quick Answer: What Does White Symbolize in Chinese Culture?<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"p1\">White (\u767d, b\u00e1i) has no single fixed meaning in Chinese culture. Its meaning changes with the period, material, occasion, and object in which it appears. The same color can mark mourning in one setting and refined simplicity in another.<\/p><ul><li><strong>Mourning and solemnity:<\/strong> Undyed or pale hemp clothing became central to traditional funeral ritual, expressing restraint and grief rather than an idea that white is inherently unlucky.<\/li><li><strong>Cosmic order:<\/strong> In the Five Colors system, white corresponds to Metal, the west, and autumn. This is a ritual classification, not a personal fortune rule.<\/li><li><strong>Moral clarity:<\/strong> Words such as \u201cinnocent\u201d or \u201cof clean reputation\u201d use white to suggest honesty, clarity, and an unblemished character.<\/li><li><strong>Plain elegance:<\/strong> White porcelain, unpainted paper, and restrained clothing can convey simplicity, refinement, and spaciousness in Chinese art.<\/li><li><strong>Modern neutrality:<\/strong> White is now common in clothing, interiors, packaging, and weddings, often without any funeral association.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p1\">White is therefore neither a universally unlucky color nor a universal symbol of purity. A funeral garment, a Dehua porcelain figure, a blank area in an ink painting, and a modern wedding dress all require different interpretations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06679af e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"06679af\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2af274a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2af274a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">White is often reduced to one sentence in cross-cultural guides: \u201cIn China, white means death.\u201d That statement recognizes an important funeral tradition but misses most of the picture. Chinese uses different words for visual whiteness, undyed material, and pale textiles; ritual mourning, porcelain, painting, opera, and modern fashion also assign the color different functions. A reliable interpretation must begin with the object and occasion, not with a fixed lucky-or-unlucky label.<\/p>\n\n<h2>White Is Not One Historical Color: Bai, Su and Material Whiteness<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Modern English uses \u201cwhite\u201d for a broad visual category. Historical Chinese color language was often more closely tied to substances, surfaces, and whether an object had been dyed or decorated. Color was not merely an abstract hue; it could be understood as a property of a particular material.<sup>[1]<\/sup> This is why ancient terms that are casually translated as \u201cwhite\u201d are not interchangeable.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Term<\/th>\n<th>Basic meaning<\/th>\n<th>Interpretive limit<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>White (\u767d, b\u00e1i)<\/td>\n<td>The general color category used for pale or achromatic things<\/td>\n<td>It carries no automatic ritual or moral meaning without context<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Plain or undyed (\u7d20, s\u00f9)<\/td>\n<td>Material in a natural, undecorated, or restrained state<\/td>\n<td>It may look off-white, beige, or gray depending on the fiber; it does not mean a standardized pure white<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fine white silk (\u7f1f, g\u01ceo)<\/td>\n<td>A pale, fine silk associated with historical clothing and literary description<\/td>\n<td>It is a textile term, not a universal synonym for mourning white<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Moon-white (\u6708\u767d, yu\u00e8b\u00e1i)<\/td>\n<td>A traditional name usually describing a very pale bluish tone<\/td>\n<td>Despite the character \u767d, it is not necessarily visual white<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Material therefore matters. Undyed hemp, polished white jade, a creamy porcelain glaze, white mineral pigment, and the bare surface of paper may look related, but their cultural meanings come from different technologies and uses. Assigning all of them one symbolism erases the feature that historical viewers would often have noticed first: what the object was made of and what it was for.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Why White Is the Traditional Color of Mourning in China<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">White is strongly associated with traditional Chinese funerals, but the link is better understood through mourning dress (\u4e27\u670d, s\u0101ngf\u00fa) than through color symbolism alone. Early ritual texts codified garments made from hemp of different degrees of coarseness and finish. The visual effect was plain, pale, and unadorned. Wearing such material set ordinary display aside and made grief, restraint, and kinship obligations visible.<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">This helps explain why \u201cwhite means death\u201d is too blunt. The ritual principle was not that a bright white hue possessed a supernatural connection to death. It was that undyed, minimally processed cloth was the opposite of festive silk, brilliant dye, and elaborate ornament. Plainness suited a period in which normal social pleasures and display were suspended.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Traditional mourning clothes were also rarely the optical white of modern bleached fabric. Raw hemp can appear gray, beige, or dull ivory. Funeral conventions varied across dynasties, regions, communities, and family circumstances. The durable cultural pattern is the contrast between austere mourning material and decorated everyday or ceremonial dress, not a single color chip used identically everywhere.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Undyed Hemp, Austerity and the Mourning-Dress System<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">The traditional Five Grades of Mourning Dress organized obligations by kinship, garment construction, cloth quality, and mourning period. They were not five shades of white. The classic categories are often translated as follows:<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Grade<\/th>\n<th>Garment principle<\/th>\n<th>Traditional duration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Zhancui (\u65a9\u8870)<\/td>\n<td>The severest grade, using very coarse hemp with raw, unhemmed edges<\/td>\n<td>The three-year category in major cases<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zicui (\u9f50\u8870)<\/td>\n<td>A hemmed mourning garment, still austere but less severe<\/td>\n<td>Varied according to the relationship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dagong (\u5927\u529f)<\/td>\n<td>Finer processed hemp than the more severe grades<\/td>\n<td>Traditionally nine months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Xiaogong (\u5c0f\u529f)<\/td>\n<td>A still finer cloth for more distant obligations<\/td>\n<td>Traditionally five months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sima (\u7f0c\u9ebb)<\/td>\n<td>The lightest grade, made from the finest-textured mourning hemp<\/td>\n<td>Traditionally three months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The system made family relationships legible through cloth and conduct. Details changed over time, and exhaustive kinship rules are far more complex than a short chart can show. The central point is stable: severity was expressed through texture, finish, construction, and duration\u2014not through progressively darker or lighter whites.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What \u201cWhite Affairs\u201d Means Today<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">White Affairs (\u767d\u4e8b, b\u00e1ish\u00ec) is a conventional term for funeral and memorial matters, commonly contrasted with \u201cred affairs,\u201d meaning weddings and other celebrations. Modern funeral practices are much less uniform than classical ritual manuals. Urban services may use black, gray, white, flowers, mourning bands, or subdued Western-style clothing; some communities retain more visible white mourning customs.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The phrase still explains why an all-white floral arrangement or stark white wrapping may feel funereal to some recipients. Yet the association is situational. A white shirt, a porcelain cup, or a white phone case does not become a funeral object simply because of its color.<\/p>\n\n<h2>White in the Five Colors and Wuxing System<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">White is one of the Five Colors (\u4e94\u8272, w\u01d4s\u00e8): qing, red, yellow, white, and black. In the classical Wuxing (\u4e94\u884c, w\u01d4x\u00edng) correspondence system, white is paired with Metal, the west, and autumn. The <em>Kaogongji<\/em>, or \u201cArtificers\u2019 Record,\u201d explicitly places white in the west within its directional color scheme.<sup>[3]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Color<\/th>\n<th>Wuxing phase<\/th>\n<th>Direction<\/th>\n<th>Season<\/th>\n<th>Associated image<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>White<\/td>\n<td>Metal<\/td>\n<td>West<\/td>\n<td>Autumn<\/td>\n<td>Contraction, order, and seasonal completion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Later cosmological systems also connect the west with the White Tiger (\u767d\u864e, B\u00e1ih\u01d4), one of the directional emblems. These correspondences organized ritual, space, time, and natural change. They do not establish white as a personal lucky color, and they should not be used as evidence that white clothing can change someone\u2019s fortune. Readers interested in the wider framework can compare the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/five-elements-chinese-zodiac\/\">Five Elements in Chinese culture<\/a> and the separate history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/white-tiger-meaning\/\">White Tiger symbol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>When White Means Purity, Plainness and Moral Clarity<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese language also gives white a positive moral vocabulary. Qingbai (\u6e05\u767d) can describe an innocent person or an unblemished reputation. Jie bai (\u6d01\u767d) means clean or spotless white and can be extended to character. Mingbai (\u660e\u767d), \u201cto understand clearly,\u201d uses \u767d within a word about illumination and comprehension. These expressions connect whiteness with clarity, openness, and freedom from stain.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The related aesthetic of su\u2014plain, undyed, or unadorned\u2014can suggest restraint and authenticity. It fits long-standing preferences for avoiding excessive display in some Confucian and Daoist writing, but it should not be turned into a universal rule that white always symbolizes virtue. A description of an honest official, a scholar in plain clothes, and a funeral garment may all use pale or undecorated imagery for different reasons.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Material associations must also remain separate. White jade may be praised for translucency, texture, and workmanship; its cultural value does not come from whiteness alone. In the same way, calling a person \u201cclean-handed\u201d is a linguistic judgment, not proof that every white object represents moral purity.<\/p>\n\n<h2>White in Chinese Art: Porcelain, Paper and Empty Space<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Chinese art, white may be a crafted surface, the natural ground of a work, or simply one color among others. Each role creates a different reading.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>White porcelain:<\/strong> Dehua kilns in Fujian became famous for wares known in Europe as <em>blanc de Chine<\/em>. Ming-period improvements produced exceptionally pure, smooth, refined surfaces, while the local clay supported vessels, religious figures, and scholars\u2019 objects.<sup>[4]<\/sup> Their impact comes from clay, glaze, firing, form, and workmanship\u2014not from a funeral code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blank paper:<\/strong> In ink painting, an unpainted area can actively suggest water, mist, sky, distance, or emptiness. This \u201cwhite\u201d is spatial rather than pigmentary. It allows solid and void to define each other and is not a symbol of death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>White pigment:<\/strong> Mineral or prepared whites in painting and decorative art can describe clothing, flowers, clouds, skin, or highlights. Unless a title, inscription, or scene provides another clue, the pigment may be doing ordinary visual work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The same caution applies to white religious sculpture. A Dehua Guanyin figure may carry Buddhist meaning because of its identity and iconography, while its creamy surface demonstrates a celebrated ceramic tradition. The white glaze does not automatically make every Dehua vessel sacred, and it does not turn an ordinary cup into a mourning object.<\/p>\n\n<h2>White in Chinese Weddings: Traditional Rule or Modern Choice?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">A modern bride can wear white at a Chinese wedding. White wedding dresses are common in contemporary ceremonies, often alongside red Chinese-style clothing at another stage of the celebration. Families vary, but a white gown is not generally treated as a violation simply because traditional funerals used pale mourning dress.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The historical distinction is more important. White bridal dress belongs to a modern, internationally shared wedding style shaped by nineteenth-century European fashion and later global media. It is not an ancient Chinese wedding convention. Chinese wedding clothing also varied across dynasties, regions, status groups, and ethnic communities; red became especially prominent in later imperial and modern Han celebration, but \u201call Chinese brides always wore red\u201d is no more accurate than \u201cChinese brides cannot wear white.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">For cross-cultural etiquette, follow the couple\u2019s stated dress code. Avoid assuming that a white outfit is offensive, but also avoid turning up in a bridal-looking white gown that could compete with the bride\u2014an ordinary social consideration rather than an ancient color taboo.<\/p>\n\n<h2>White in Opera, Clothing, Gifts and Everyday Etiquette<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Context changes white more dramatically than any single dictionary definition can show.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Setting<\/th>\n<th>Likely meaning or function<\/th>\n<th>Practical boundary<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Peking opera face paint<\/td>\n<td>A theatrical code often associated with suspicion, cunning, or a forceful calculating character<\/td>\n<td>It applies to stage roles, not to the personality of someone wearing white clothes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Everyday clothing<\/td>\n<td>Clean, simple, neutral, or fashionable<\/td>\n<td>There is no general ban on wearing white in China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chinese New Year<\/td>\n<td>Red and warm festive colors are more conventional<\/td>\n<td>White is not forbidden, but an austere all-white scheme may feel less celebratory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gift wrapping<\/td>\n<td>Modern white packaging can appear minimal and premium<\/td>\n<td>For a traditional celebration, combine it with festive color and avoid funeral-style white flowers or stark mourning cues<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Funeral or memorial<\/td>\n<td>Solemnity, grief, and ritual restraint<\/td>\n<td>Local custom and the family\u2019s instructions take priority<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">White opera face paint is a particularly common source of error. Stage color is a compressed dramatic vocabulary used with costume, line pattern, role type, and performance convention. It does not mean that white has the same negative meaning in architecture, ceramics, daily dress, or gifts.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">For holidays such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/chinese-new-year\/\">Chinese New Year<\/a>, the safest design approach is not to ban white but to read the full palette. White lettering on a red field is festive; a bouquet designed like funeral flowers may not be. Composition matters more than the isolated color.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Chinese White and Western White: Key Differences<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">The familiar contrast\u2014\u201cChina wears white for funerals; the West wears white for weddings\u201d\u2014is useful only as a starting point. Both traditions contain many other uses, and both continue to change.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto; max-width:100%; max-height:800px;\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Context<\/th>\n<th>Traditional Chinese emphasis<\/th>\n<th>Common modern Western emphasis<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Mourning<\/td>\n<td>Undyed or pale material, austerity, and kinship ritual<\/td>\n<td>Black clothing and subdued formality are common<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wedding<\/td>\n<td>White has no ancient role as the standard bridal color; modern white gowns are widely accepted<\/td>\n<td>The white bridal dress became a powerful modern convention<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Purity<\/td>\n<td>Clean reputation, plainness, clarity, or an unblemished state<\/td>\n<td>Often linked to bridal, religious, hygienic, or moral imagery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Art<\/td>\n<td>Undecorated material, porcelain surface, paper ground, and productive empty space<\/td>\n<td>Light, neutrality, minimalism, and sacred or clinical associations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">These are tendencies, not rules. Contemporary Chinese design draws on global minimalism; Western museums and collectors have long admired Chinese white porcelain. The goal of comparison should be to identify the relevant convention, not to assign each civilization an opposite color psychology.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How to Interpret White Correctly in Chinese Culture<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Identify the material:<\/strong> Is it undyed hemp, silk, porcelain glaze, jade, pigment, paper, or a modern synthetic surface?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Date and locate the object:<\/strong> A classical ritual garment, a Ming ceramic, a twentieth-century stage costume, and a modern package follow different conventions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Define the setting:<\/strong> Separate funeral ritual, art, moral language, performance, weddings, holidays, and everyday use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read the surrounding signs:<\/strong> Clothing form, inscriptions, accompanying colors, flowers, figures, and the object\u2019s function can outweigh the hue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use the narrowest supported meaning:<\/strong> If no ritual or textual evidence exists, treat white as a material or design choice rather than inventing luck, misfortune, or spiritual power.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p class=\"p1\">This process reflects a wider rule for reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/chinese-symbols-and-meanings\/\">Chinese symbols and meanings<\/a>: the motif, medium, inscription, period, and social occasion work together.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Common Misreadings of White Symbolism<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhite always means death in China.\u201d<\/strong> Funeral white is important, but white can also be neutral, elegant, plain, morally positive, or technically necessary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cEvery white object is unlucky.\u201d<\/strong> White porcelain, white jade, painting paper, shirts, and modern interiors do not automatically carry mourning meaning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cChinese purity and Western bridal purity are identical.\u201d<\/strong> Chinese moral expressions often emphasize clean reputation and clarity; the modern white bridal convention has a different history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe Five Elements make white a lucky or unlucky personal color.\u201d<\/strong> The white\u2013Metal\u2013west\u2013autumn correspondence is a cosmological and ritual classification, not a fortune-changing prescription.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe Five Grades of Mourning are five shades of white.\u201d<\/strong> They distinguish kinship obligation through cloth, construction, and duration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cA white Peking opera face reveals what white means everywhere.\u201d<\/strong> Face colors are theatrical role codes and cannot be exported to daily life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cTraditional Chinese weddings absolutely prohibit white.\u201d<\/strong> White was not the classical standard bridal color, but modern white gowns are common and accepted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cBlack and white always form a funeral palette.\u201d<\/strong> The combination can also be ordinary typography, ink-painting aesthetics, or modern minimalism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>FAQs About White Meaning in Chinese Culture<\/h2>\n\n<h3>What does white symbolize in Chinese culture?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">White can express mourning and solemnity, the west and autumn in the Five Colors system, moral clarity in language, or restrained elegance in art. Modern clothing and design often use it as a neutral color. The correct meaning depends on the object, period, and occasion.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Why do Chinese people wear white at funerals?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Traditional mourning dress used plain, often undyed hemp to reject ornament and make grief and family obligations visible. Its pale appearance produced the association with white. The practice is a ritual convention, not evidence that white has an inherently harmful power.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Is white an unlucky color in China?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">No. It can be inappropriate as the dominant color in some traditional celebrations because of funeral associations, but it is neutral or positive in many other settings. A white ceramic, shirt, wall, or page is not automatically unlucky.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Can a bride wear white at a Chinese wedding?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Yes. White wedding gowns are common in contemporary China, often used alongside red Chinese-style outfits. The white gown is a modern international convention rather than an ancient Chinese custom, and individual families may have different preferences.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What does white mean in the Five Elements?<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the Five Colors and Wuxing correspondence system, white is linked to Metal, the west, and autumn. It can suggest seasonal contraction, order, and completion. The framework historically organized ritual and cosmology; it is not a scientific or supernatural method for changing personal fortune.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">[1] Victoria Bogushevskaya. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/rwe\/10.1007\/978-3-030-89862-5_433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Color Language<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[2] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/yili\/sang-fu\/zh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yili: Sang Fu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[3] Chinese Text Project. <a href=\"https:\/\/ctext.org\/rites-of-zhou\/dong-guan-kao-gong-ji\/zh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zhouli: Kaogongji<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">[4] Victoria and Albert Museum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/articles\/blanc-de-chine-white-porcelain-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blanc de Chine\u2014White Porcelain from China<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9couvrez ce que signifie le blanc dans la culture chinoise, du deuil et des Cinq \u00c9l\u00e9ments \u00e0 la porcelaine, aux mariages, \u00e0 l\u2019op\u00e9ra, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tiquette quotidienne et aux tabous courants.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-symbols-meanings","tag-chinese-color-symbolism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover what white means in Chinese culture, from mourning and the Five Elements to porcelain, weddings, opera, everyday etiquette, and common taboos.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anthony\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaculturepro.com\/fr\/white-meaning-chinese-culture\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO Pro (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Culture Pro -\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White Meaning in Chinese Culture: Customs &amp; 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