In ancient times, officials used a red pen to tick the names of people being executed. Now courts use red pen to tick the names of death row inmates when they are sentenced to death. Writing names in red pen is disrespectful to others.

There is a saying in China that "alchemy books are ominous". In ancient times, yamen used red pens to record the names of criminals. According to folklore, the Lord of Hell also used red pens to draw the book of life and death, and the names were filled in with red pens. The man was undoubtedly sentenced to death.

Even now, except for teachers' corrections and accounting corrections, red pens are rarely used to record matters, especially a person's name, and it is even more taboo to use red pens.

There is a folk saying that "alchemy letters are unlucky". Why do some people think it is unlucky to receive a letter written with a red pen?

This has its cultural and historical background. "Alchemy Book" has three meanings: First, the ancient rulers made up the pretext of destiny and fabricated the so-called "Heavenly Book" to be written with an alchemy pen, so it was called "Alchemy Book" and was tabooed by the people.

Second, the preferential treatment certificates issued by the emperor to the heroes were often written in "alchemy script", and the exemption certificates were also written in red pen.

These two meanings are far away from us. What directly affects people's concepts and creates the "unlucky alchemy" mentality is that in ancient times, red pens were used to record the names of criminals. Until now, the names of criminals sentenced to death are marked with an "×" or "√" in red pen. Therefore, people avoid using red pen when writing letters.

In addition to the above factors, writing a letter with a red pen is now considered to mean breaking off the relationship.

It is impolite to write other people's names with red pen.

In ancient times, when questioning the execution time of a condemned prisoner, the prisoner's name would be written on the custody number with chicken blood, but later it evolved to be written with a red pen, so the name of others or others was written in red. Your own name is both disrespectful to others and a curse to others or yourself. Of course, this statement is unscientific and is just a reference.

There is a saying in China that "alchemy books are ominous". In ancient times, yamen used red pens to record the names of criminals. According to folklore, the Lord of Hell also used red pens to draw the book of life and death, and the names were filled in with red pens. The man was undoubtedly sentenced to death. Even now, except for teachers' corrections and accounting corrections, red pens are rarely used to record matters, especially a person's name, and it is even more taboo to use red pens.

"Alchemy Book" has three meanings: First, the ancient rulers used the pretext of destiny and fabricated the so-called "Heavenly Book" to be written with an alchemy pen, so it was called "Alchemy Book" and was tabooed by the people. Second, preferential treatment certificates issued by emperors to meritorious officials were often written in "alchemy script", and exemption certificates were also written in red pen.

In addition to the above factors, writing a letter with a red pen is now considered to mean breaking off the relationship.

1. It is okay to use a red pen to take notes and annotations.

2. But you cannot use red pen for homework papers, let alone write letters.

3. As long as it is the main text for others to see (not comments), it is not allowed.

4. Red letter assignments are disrespectful to teachers. Writing letters in red letters means breaking up friendships. Keeping accounts in red letters means losing money. There is also the superstition of bloody disasters.

Writing your name in red pen has no necessary relationship with your luck. The use of red is just to attract attention, so in ancient and modern times, prisoners' names were often written in red. Therefore, people think that writing names in red is unlucky. This has no scientific basis and is just everyone's inertia thinking.

Furthermore, your classmates may be doing it randomly, so you don’t need to take it to heart.

In the traditional culture of our Chinese nation, red represents joy, prosperity, and many happy events. If a classmate writes his or her name with a red pen, it will definitely bring good luck and many happy events.