What Are The Importance of Colors in Holi Festival in India

The most awaited and most colorful festival in India, the Holi festival, is around the corner. The festival is not only the symbol of happiness and fun but it also stands for unity and brotherhood.

Holi festival in India is celebrated to welcome the beautiful Spring season with vibrant colors and utmost zeal.

The different hues of gulaal in Holi festival sprinkled everywhere and make this vibrantly colored land more colorful.

Holi Festival in India

It is believed that people on this day forget their differences and celebrate this festival as one unit by mashing Holi gulaal on each other's faces. People also love to celebrate Holi festival with water.

Every color speaks for itself. Each one has its own language. Colors are the most powerful way to express the feelings.

They also keep a great significance In our Indian culture and traditions.  Today we will discuss the importance of each color in Holi festival in India.

Red

Red Color in Holi Festival

The most important and most auspicious color, red is an important part of Holi festival. The color is the symbol of energy, purity, and auspiciousness. People love using red color while playing Holi in India.

The vibrancy of this color makes this festival more pulsating. In Indian culture, red plays an integral part of various rituals and customs.

A bride wears red on her wedding day, married women wear red sindoor (vermilion) as a symbol of the long life of her husband and lovers gift red roses to their partners. Positive and Negative traits of the color:
Positive. Love, energy, passion, excitement, and courage
Negative. Anger, aggression, and defense.

Orange

Orange Color in Holi Festival

The color which has a deep association with patriotism and spirituality. Orange and it's subsequent colors like saffron beautifies the elegance of Indian tricolor.

Orange stands of joy and sunshine in life. A color of hope that is the standpoint of spirituality as orange is don by sages.

Holi celebration in India with orange color becomes more playful and enthusiastic. Positive and Negative traits of Orange:
Positive. Joy, creativity, fascination,  success, and stimulation.
Negative. Deceit, distrust, and domination.

Yellow

Yellow Color in Holi Festival

The most joyous and fulfilled color, yellow is also one of the most favorite colors of every age of people. Be it, a child or an adult, the color fascinates each with its vibrancy.

While playing Holi festival with the yellow color you can evoke energies of happiness and cheerfulness that induce mental activity. As Holi already is the festival of happy colors, with the presence of yellow it becomes merrier.

Kids love yellow color and prefer using yellow color toys and the different shades of the same color. Positive and Negative traits of Yellow:
Positive: freshness, intellect, and joy
Negative: childish, sickness and jealousy

Green

Green Color in Holi Festival

Calm, cool and peaceful is how this color can be described. Celebrating Holi in India with this color bring you all the things together.

The coLor also plays an imperative role in Islam. Muslim people consider this color quite auspicious.
The color also symbolizes it's association with mother nature.

Commemorating Holi festival with green colors brings you harmony, freshness, and fertility. Positive and Negative traits of Green:
Positive: safety, hope, novelty
Negative: sickness, cowardice, and greed

Blue

Blue Color in Holi Festival

Mostly allied with clarity and coolness, the blue color is very beautiful and eye catchy. Earlier this color was not used by many people, but gradually it has gained its popularity among Holi enthusiasts.

As this color is mostly coupled with any and water, therefore, it symbolizes stability and depth. Thus playing Holi with this color brings depth and stability in your relationships.

Blue color also bring calmness and therefore if anyone plays with this color, he or she brings calmness and peace in his or her life. Positive and Negative traits of Blue:
Positive: royalty, wisdom, trust, intelligence, faith, and truth
Negative: seriousness and sadness

Indigo

Indigo Color in Holi Festival

Indigo is the scion of the color blue. The color of Indigo beautifies the essence of Holi. The color has huge importance from the point of view of modern Indian history when The East India company compelled Indian farmers to grow Indigo crop.

The perfect blend of blue and purple color, Indigo color is the symbol of the serene night sky. Thus it gives you depth in your thoughts with broad thinking.

From the point of view of yoga, the color helps in evoking the third eye that is brow chakra. Positive and Negative traits of Indigo

Positive: Concentration, cosmic, imagination, faithful, royalness, empathy, devotional.
Negative: impractical, separateness, fear, depression

Violet

Violet Color in Holi Festival

Last but not the least, violet color in Holi can bring you utmost happiness.

It is the color associated with comic energies. Holi celebration will get more vibrant with use of this color. Positive and Negative traits of Violet

Positive: Self-confidence, high spirituality,  high level of energy.
Negative: Violet color makes you arrogant.