green hat

Jealousy's symbolic headwear

A green hat in Chinese culture signals that the wearer's spouse has been unfaithful—the equivalent of being cuckolded.

The association comes from a phrase that sounds like "wearing a green hat" in Mandarin.

In China, men avoid green hats for this reason: He refused the promotional cap because it was green.

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