Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017)

Re:Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) by azurezyq on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:27PM (#18349420)

Grown up in China and most popular pencils were coded in dark green made by Zhonghua.

Yellow ones are rare there.

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Re:Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) by ars on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:29PM (#18350098)

Does the color green have a meaning in China?

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Re:Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) by azurezyq on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:39PM (#18350516)

For Han people, it doesn't mean anything specific. Here I think it's just refering woods.

You can see bamboo leaves in the zoomed-in version:

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Re:Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:08PM (#18350343)

Sure, "cuckold" (as applied to hats, not in general).

But I doubt that's what they're going for with the pencils.

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