{"id":181,"date":"2019-07-25T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tajwithguide.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-04-22T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:33:09","slug":"symbolic-meaning-of-red-colour-in-indian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tajwithguide.com\/blog\/symbolic-meaning-of-red-colour-in-indian-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic meaning of Red colour in Indian culture."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The colours play a very important role in Indian culture and Hindu religion.Different months and even festivals have their specific colours, The Monsoon months are represented by green colour, The spring is also celebrated as festival of Colours (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tajwithguide.com\/blog\/holi-2022-date-time-significance-pooja-vidhi\/\">Holi Festival<\/a><\/strong>). The flowers and nature after winter months bloom in different myriad of colours in this particular month.The colour of sacrifice and bravery is the Colour saffron. Find out meaning of Red colour in Indian culture.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Importance of Red Colour in Indian Culture<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One very important colour in Indian culture and mythology is the red colour. Contrary to the western beliefs and outlook where the red colour is associated with mischief and the devil. In India red is the colour of love, In Indian marriages you will find the bride is always draped and dressed if not in red then the nearest most resembling shade of red colour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The bride wears red bangles, Wears red coloured dress, applies a red dot commonly known as \u201cBindi\u201don the forehead, applies beautifully decorated artistic henna \u201cMehendi\u201d on the hands and feet, applies a streak of red coloured vermillion\u201dsindoor\u201d thus the Indian bride can be differentiated and noted from a mile long. The vermillion in India is the open declaration of the marital status of a lady.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Read Related Blogs-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tajmahaltourstickets.com\/taj-mahal-tours\/\">Taj Mahal Tours<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samedaytours.in\/blog\/indian-weddings-customs-and-rituals\/\">Indian Wedding Customs and Rituals\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samedaytours.in\/blog\/best-honeymoon-destinations-in-india\/\">Best Honeymoon Destinations in India<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tajwithguide.com\/blog\/\">IRCTC Login Train Ticket Booking &amp; Updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samedaytours.in\/blog\/expressway-in-india-top-facts\/\">Expressway in India &#8211; Top Facts<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samedaytours.in\/maharaja-express.html\">Maharaja Express Booking<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jaipurtourspackage.com\/\"><strong>Jaipur Sightseeing<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The newly wed bride when enters her new home she is supposed to dip her feet in red color paste and then make her feet marks look like the feet of Goddess Lakshmi entering the house bringing the wealth and good fortune.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The red colour perhaps gets this kind of belief set from the red colour of blood. Red Blood is the base of all life process thus the colour red automatically becomes the colour of auspicious and new life.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Goddess Laksmi the Goddess of wealth is also denoted and wears the red colour, She is known to be the wife and life partner of Lord Vishnu (One of the Gods of Hindu trinity).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>New life generates and develops in the mothers body surrounded by the blood red colour in fact not only surrounded but the foetus is fed by the red-coloured blood thus supporting the new creation.<\/p>\r\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The sacred fire and the offerings\" src=\"https:\/\/as2.ftcdn.net\/v2\/jpg\/02\/38\/49\/87\/500_F_238498730_WQFOHnaXZ3NYVDi9CRS5Fzxwt07KRicn.jpg\" alt=\"Sacred fire , A ritual burning of offerings such as grains and ghee Stock  Photo | Adobe Stock\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sacred fire and the offerings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In Vedic Hinduism the colour of fire is resembled by red colour. Fire resembles purity and is known to be the messenger and carrier to the Gods thus in Vedic rituals the varied offerings to the Gods are in fact fed to the fire thus believing that fire will deliver them to the respective God as a carrier.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colours play a very important role in Indian culture and Hindu religion.Different months and even festivals have their specific colours, The Monsoon months are represented by green colour, The spring is also celebrated as festival of Colours (Holi Festival). 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