Dancheong is a traditional colouring that represents Buddhist origin and positive emotions, such as happiness. They are usually seen on traditional building–Hanok. Korean Dancheong has distinctive characteristics from other East Asian countries as they have strong complementary color contrast and brightness contrast.
Most patterns consist of dragons, phoenix, crane, flower, etc.
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Sunny Hua · November 9, 2021 at 4:41 pm
This is a very simple and sweet post that features beautiful images of Dancheong! Thank you for bringing artistic diversity to these posts! Looking forward to see more!
Grace Widelitz · November 12, 2021 at 4:25 pm
Super cool post Alice! The style is intricate and rhythmic. I am curious as to what the animals within the patterns symbolize?
Rosemarie Hernandez · November 23, 2021 at 10:17 pm
When I traveled to Seoul, I remember being fascinated by this pattern at Gyeongbokgung. I’m glad that I got to learn more about it through your post, so thanks for sharing!!
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