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Why is the yellow joke called yellow, not cyan?

Today, we often use "yellow" to refer to things with obvious erotic meaning, but in ancient China, yellow was an extremely noble color, which was used exclusively by the royal family and was not allowed to be used by ordinary people. The change and transformation in the middle is mainly influenced by the west. From 65438 to 0894, a magazine named Yellow Magazine was founded in Britain, and a group of novelists, poets, essayists and painters with literary tendencies at the end of the century formed a literary group called "Decadence School" around the magazine. Their works are sometimes a bit pornographic, but they are not obscene. However, on April 3 of the following year, O.Wilde, a famous British playwright, was arrested on charges of homosexuality. An episode when he was arrested greatly damaged the reputation of the yellow magazine. At that time, the newspaper said that Wilde had a yellow magazine under his arm when he was arrested, so people took it for granted that this magazine was as notorious as Wilde. The next day, someone demonstrated in front of the publisher of the yellow magazine and smashed the window glass with stones.

In fact, on the day of Wilde's arrest, the book under his arm was the novel Love of God by French writer Bill Louis. It happened that this novel, like many cheap novels in France at that time, had a yellow cover. This kind of novel, called "Yellow Book", is also considered unpretentious.

Whether it is a pornographic magazine or a pornographic book, "yellow" is associated with the concepts of sex, pornography, bad habits and so on.