Contributor record · Wave 1, July to August 2026

Contributor CN-04

Chinese; classical musician and educator, runs her own channel. Interviewed for 11 minutes (Recorded video interview, Mandarin; cut short by her next lesson, follow-ups sent in writing. No rating card.). Favorite color: Red and green, both, held for years and traded by mood. Deep-dive colors this session: Red, Pink, Green.

Dublin Core record

Identifier: CTP-CN-04
Title: Interview with contributor CN-04
Type: Oral-history interview (no rating card)
Creator: Chloe Chen, interviewer and curator
Contributor: CN-04; attribution to be confirmed in writing
Date: Wave 1, July to August 2026
Language: cmn (Mandarin)
Format: Recorded video interview, Mandarin; 11 min
Coverage: Chinese; classical musician and educator, runs her own channel
Subject: Color meaning; deep dive: Red, Pink, Green
Relation: Color records GCMD-001 to GCMD-006; wave 1 dataset
Rights: Record text CC BY 4.0; consent given on the recording
Access: Public tier: this record. Private tier: name key, recording, card scan, transcript

First associations

Quick-fire round

The first thing that came to mind, one color at a time
Red	not captured cleanly on the recording
Blue	not captured cleanly on the recording
Green	fresh scents and cool air
Yellow	refreshing drinks
Black	the atmosphere of playing and hearing classical music
Pink	Hello Kitty and pink bubbles of new love

In their words

From the recording

Black brings to mind the atmosphere of playing, the feeling of a classical concert: serious, and elegant.
On black, translated from the recording

The grandfathers would find bright red and green flashy and would not choose them. But the older women would wear and love exactly these colors.
On pink, translated from the recording

Every color is a positive color. It depends on how you read it and how you use it.
On green, translated from the recording

Sayings contributed

Romanized, with literal translation

hong hong huo huo: flourishing
fen hong pao pao: pink bubbles, the giddiness of new love
chun yi ang ran: spring in full green flood

On color in film

The curator's own question

The session ended before this question.

Generational note

Would the grandparents answer differently?

A gendered split inside one generation: the grandfathers refuse the loud colors the grandmothers love.

Luck, taboo, belief

Custom versus conviction

Does not believe in lucky colors at all; red is the traditional answer. Do not gift anyone a green hat.

Rating card

Five scales, six colors

No rating card: the session ran out of time before the card, and the follow-up moved to writing. The interview material above stands on its own.

Cite this interview

Stable ID CTP-CN-04

Contributor CN-04, interview by Chloe Chen, July to August 2026 (CTP-CN-04). The Color Testimony Project, wave 1, Global Color Meaning Database (Suse), 2026. Accessed [date]. https://globalcolormeaning.org/fieldwork/cn-04.html.

The identifier CTP-CN-04 is permanent. The citation form follows the oral-history practice documented on the standards page; the exact date of the session is held in the private log and can be supplied to a researcher on request.

Quotes are transcribed from the recording, translated into English by the curator, and lightly cleaned for readability; the original-language transcript is held in the private tier. Short form: Contributor CN-04, interview, summer 2026. The contributor's name and consent record live in the private log, not in this archive.