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The Secondary Colors \| Alexander Theroux [If I am blue and you are yellow, all we need is orange? Nasturtium, gladioli, cosmos? Poppies?] Prince of Orange? A Chinese proverb goes: "the Moon cannot be full for 100 days and flowers cannot be in full colors for over 100 days". But the national flower of Burma – the prince of orange – because of its long blossom period, is called "a flower in full color for over 100 days". Prince of orange is an evergreen shrub, and its blossom period lasts from summer to autumn. The flower blossom out for quite a long time but its colors would never fade. ... The Yisteha people of Burma have a quite romantic and interesting custom of marriage. They live along waters since ancient times. If a family has a young girl, they often build a floating garden with bamboos or woods on the water surface nearby home before their daughter’s marriage. The family would plant prince of orange in every place of the garden and tie the garden with chains or ropes to the banks. On the day when the young girl marries off, they would cut off the ropes and let the garden float downstream. The bridegroom would begin to wait for his bride from early morning in the downstream; when the small garden with his bride float near, the bridegroom would grasp the rope and push the boat garden ashore; then he would take his bride home to hold their marriage ceremony. Science Museums of China Orange is a bit garish, a little too loud, a shocked "O," (like the pumpkin from this year's carving party, or the Edvard Munch painting "The Scream," with its primal orange skies). Orange is round; orange as an orange, orange as a pumpkin; a fallish, autumnal, Halloween color. The true origins of Halloween lie with the ancient Celtic tribes who lived in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. For the Celts, November 1 marked the beginning of a new year and the coming of winter. The night before the new year, they celebrated the festival of Samhain, Lord of the Dead. During this festival, Celts believed the souls of the dead -- including ghosts, goblins and witches -- returned to mingle with the living. In order to scare away the evil spirits, people would wear masks and light bonfires. ... In 835, Pope Gregory IV moved the celebration for all the martyrs (later all saints) from May 13 to November 1. The night before became known as All Hallow’s Even or “holy evening.” Eventually the name was shortened to the current Halloween. On November 2, the Church celebrates All Souls Day. American Catholic.org All Saint's Day is celebrated by Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, Anglicans, and Lutherans. However, because of their differing understandings of the identity and function of the saints, what these churches do on the Feast of All Saints differs widely. For Roman Catholics, the Orthodox, and to some extent, Anglicans, All Saints is a day to remember, thank God for, but also to venerate and pray to the saints in heaven for various helps. For Lutherans the day is observed by remembering and thanking God for all saints, both dead and living. It is a day to glorify Jesus Christ, who by his holy life and death has made the saints holy through Baptism and faith. Calendar updates - U.S. Holidays The House of Orange (from which Andrew, a one-time inhabitant of this house, claimed vague descent), was itself instrumental in Catholic/Protestant military disputes. William of Orange (died 1584, and his descendants) led the Dutch against the Catholic monarch Phillip II of Spain. William [III] married Mary Stuart , daughter to future king James II. In 1688 William embarked on a mission to depose his Catholic father-in-law from the English throne. He and his wife were crowned King and Queen of England on April 11 ,1689 . With the accession to the English throne he became the most powerful sovereign on Earth ... Wikipedia It's a stretch -- but gold is close to orange -- the schools colors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, named after the patronage of the King and Queen, are green, gold and silver. How did people refer to the color orange before the discovery of the fruit? ... Thus, for instance, from the Secretis secretorum of the early fifteenth century: "Whos colour ys gold, lyke that ys meen bytwen reed and yalwe." The Secondary Colors \| Alexander Theroux So maybe gold's not that far off. Another way to refer to the color was tawny, as the ferocious, teeth-gnashing beast in Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue -- with its hyphenated name appearing virtually as anagrams of orange -- is described as "a very large, tawny Ourang-Outang of the Bornese species." The Secondary Colors \| Alexander Theroux Ever since reading The Murders in the Rue Morgue I cannot help but think how much more wonderful Ourang-Outang is in appearance and sound than the current orangutan. I have never been to Borneo, but I was (relatively) close, on Java, in Indonesia. Ourang-Outang has the wonderfully musical doubled sound of many words or expressions in the languages there. Is there a sound of orange? Theroux nominates the high-C. Of Louis Armstrong and that last poignant note that comes out of Mimi's lovely throat as she exits with Rodolfo in the first act of La Bohème. Cs in the middle registers I see as definitely yellow, but sliding off, merging into, melding into orange, as they become higher and more showy. Now if I can just reconcile that with the key of G, my ever-blue key, we could be back to Van Gogh's essential -- the yellow, the orange, and the now-possible blue.

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