Contributor record · Wave 1, July to August 2026

Contributor US-02

Chinese; high school student in the United States. Interviewed for 23 minutes (Recorded video interview, Mandarin; rating card completed from the shared form). Favorite color: Green now; purple before. Deep-dive colors this session: Red, Pink, Green.

Dublin Core record

Identifier: CTP-US-02
Title: Interview with contributor US-02
Type: Oral-history interview with rating card
Creator: Chloe Chen, interviewer and curator
Contributor: US-02; attribution to be confirmed in writing
Date: Wave 1, July to August 2026
Language: cmn (Mandarin); eng (English)
Format: Recorded video interview, Mandarin; 23 min
Coverage: Chinese; high school student in the United States
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	the sky
Green	trees
Yellow	not captured cleanly on the recording
Black	not captured cleanly on the recording
Pink	a bow

In their words

From the recording

I count both red and green as lucky: red for the Chinese background, green because a green light means pass. But at the light, red also means stop. So for big exams I alternate between wearing red and wearing green.
On green, translated from the recording

If I am buying something and cannot decide, I default to pink. It cannot go wrong. A gift for a girl whose taste I do not know: pink again.
On pink, translated from the recording

Black seems to absorb every kind of energy, the good and the bad alike.
On black, translated from the recording

If a foreigner moved to my hometown tomorrow, the one color rule I would warn them about: do not wear a green hat.
On green, translated from the recording

Sayings contributed

Romanized, with literal translation

hong hong huo huo: flourishing
lü yi ang ran: green in full flood
liu gong fen dai: the powdered beauties of the six palaces

On color in film

The curator's own question

Heroes wear red: Zhu Zhu Xia, Nezha, Crayon Shin-chan, Superman, Spider-Man, and Chihiro. Villains lean green, from Plankton on down. And Legally Blonde, where pink is feminine power: everyone assumes the woman in pink is not serious, and the film turns that assumption over.

Generational note

Would the grandparents answer differently?

Her grandparents would not accept a pink or green wedding: it must be full red. Her grandmother never wears makeup and would not know the idiom about powdered beauties.

Luck, taboo, belief

Custom versus conviction

Red and green, worn in alternation on exam days by the whole logic above; black absorbs too much of everything to trust.

Rating card

Five scales, six colors

Rating card, 1-7 by dimension († marks a flagged reading)
Color	Like to dislike	Calm to energetic	Traditional to modern	Positive to negative	Strength of cultural meaning
Red	2	5	2	4	7†
Blue	2	3	5	3	4
Green	2	1	5	3	2
Yellow	4	6	5	2	3
Black	6	1	6	6	6
Pink	2	4†	6	3	7

Red Q5: 6 corrected to 7 on the card; 7 used
Pink Q2: overwritten digit corrected to 4 on the card; 4 used

Cite this interview

Stable ID CTP-US-02

Contributor US-02, interview by Chloe Chen, July to August 2026 (CTP-US-02). The Color Testimony Project, wave 1, Global Color Meaning Database (Suse), 2026. Accessed [date]. https://globalcolormeaning.org/fieldwork/us-02.html.

The identifier CTP-US-02 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 US-02, interview, summer 2026. The contributor's name and consent record live in the private log, not in this archive.