If when walking around Bangkok on a Monday and you happen to see an unusual number of people wearing yellow, know that it's no coincidence. A combination of superstition and cosmology, the Thais believe that each day of the week has a special color assigned to it. On Monday yellow is worn in recognition of the fact that the king was born on a Monday. Polo shirts with the king's emblem is a common sight on this day. Some employers actually require their employees to wear yellow on Mondays out of respect for the king. Also related to the king is Tuesday's color pink. It's the color that he wore when leaving the hospital, the symbolic color for his birth year, and wearing pink on this day is a way of wishing the King long life. Green, the color for environmentalism, is recognized on Wednesday. Orange is the color for Thursday, light blue for Friday (the queen's birthday), purple for Saturday and red for Sunday.
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Gosh, and I don't have a single yellow thing. This post is interesting---never knew about this.
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