Color Conceptualization of AGE in English and Chinese

Both in English and Chinese there are extensions of color to human age. For gaining some knowledge of the differences in the extension in the two languages, color categories are discussed and compared first and then evidences in dictionaries and corpora are collected and compared as well. It is found that there is a higher possibility of color associations with age in Chinese than English. What’s more, there are more colors involved in color associations in Chinese.