Chinese has distinct words for "green" (綠) and "blue" (藍), but it also has a broader word (青) that embraces both colors. Green tea is 綠茶. The slightly different beverage being advertised here is 青茶, which also literally means "green tea" but uses the word for "green" that can also mean "blue" (though the tea leaves themselves are of course green and not at all blue). Tea shops that have English menus often translate it as "blue-green tea," even though there is nothing blue about it, because there's no other obvious way to distinguish it from ordinary green tea. The advertisement also uses various shades between blue and green to promote this sort of tea.
As you can see, though, the actual color of the beverage is neither blue nor green but -- what else? -- amber.
Blue and green have a political meaning in Taiwan, too, with blue being the color of the pro-China party and green the color of the current ruling party, which is more pro-independence. A recently founded third party, in order to express its centrist position, says that its color is 青, realized in its logo as cyan.
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William,
Check out my recent ( today) in depth comment
about blue-green,
amber/bourbon/ honey/bees on your
Blue-Green Abelard and gray and yellow amber post.
Recall the blue-green syncs began with the Lady Luck
cover and the interpretation of the symbolism connected
with the 2nd woman with dark hair
standing near the purple delicatessen building
wearing what I described as a blue-green suit.
Recall I mentioned her Yellow hat.
Of course the sync connection was my Kelly Green
coat experience which I wore my green coat
April 19th, a day before Easter Sunday at Dorothy Lane
Market at the **deli department and the 2nd woman
in my experience
( White woman ) wearing the same color (Kelly Green )
T shirt.
I didn't see your Lady Luck post until the day after
my Dorothy Lane experience( which was
on April 20, Easter Sunday ).
Isn't it interesting how this particular sync has morphed
which begs the question, why?
Which I explained what I believe to be the answer
to the why in my recent comment. Again
please refer back to my recent comment ( May 28 )
on your Blue-Green Abelard and gray and yellow amber post.
Also because it has morphed, and IMHO,
the meaning must be very significant, perhaps to both of us.
and perhaps for different reasons.
If nothing else perhaps it's Food ( deli symbolism)
for thought or in your case perhaps a thirst to quench?
I absolutely do not believe in coincidences
and if something isn't a coincidence, it begs the question
at least to me, then what is it?
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