The Traditional Dragon Decoration of The Eaves of The Temple SSang Gyeo Sa in NonSan city, Korea

in culture •  7 years ago  (edited)

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In this posting, I’d like post on decoration of the eaves in this temple.

The ornaments around the eaves of this temple were exceptionally beautiful. I have seen so many decorations of the eaves of temple.
The decoration of the eaves of this temple of Ssang Gyeo Sa was the one of the best in the decoration.

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One of the best decoration of the eaves I’ve seen recently was the Shrine for the mountain god which was built by the Choson Dynasty.

But the eaves of the Shrine could not be compared to that of this temple in the scale and the beauty, even though the shrine of mountain god was built by the royal family.

Let’s look at the eaves of the shrine for the mountain god to compare with that of the temple on former posting.

https://steemit.com/travel/@slowwalker/there-was-a-shrine-for-the-mountain-god-in-choson-dynasty

The eaves of the temple was very unique in it’s accuracy and the style.

Interesting thing in this temple was that Dragons were carved at the top of every ornaments.

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There were 4 dragons sculptures on the front wall.
Each dragons were slightly different in shapes and colors.

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There were the paintings of dragons in the ornament at the eaves and the end of the crossbeam.
The painting of the frontal face of dragon was very accurate.

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It was not easy to find the dragon face, because it was hidden behind the front board

The corner of the eaves were much more impressive. You can enjoy the beauty of the ornament with the background of the sky.

The blue color of the sky seemed to emphasize the colors of the ornaments

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Especially fading way red-brown colors brought me a kind of strange sentiment and made me looking back to the past.

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These are really art of works and are so beautiful. The temples in China have similar architecture. Dragons are also featured prominently in Chinese temples. Great photography as well.

These are beautifully painted eaves of The Temple SSang Gyeo Sa, @slowwalker.

Such lovely photography!

The dragons represent protective deities guarding the temple and ensuring prosperity.

The dancheong painting has a long history dating back to prehistoric times and the five colours suggest harmony and the warding off of evil spirits.

The designs under the eaves reveal splendid workmanship and your close-ups help emphasize this.

Beautiful work today, my friend

nice

these decorations are very beautiful. Even in my region was used to decorate parts of the roof ... it is not easy to find them, though

a very detailed post. I really enjoy reading it. i like your post. i always follow you. thans my friend. by, @boyasyie

Indeed, the temple is unique through decorations and ornaments. It's a great place and I'm glad you had the opportunity to see it and share these wonderful pictures

crazy stuff but very pretty

Wonderful!

Another really nice set of past culture photos. It's great that you got closeup photos from different sections, it really lets us see the details. It is also striking on how exact the repeated patterns are, almost like they were stenciled on. Do you know if that is how they did that back then? or was it all freehand skill?

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Really nice photography and amazing culture

Great decorations couldn't said it better the pics absolutely tells that
Such a masterpiece of work :)

Amazing colours and patterns!

I am always asking myself how talented those people were my friend to make such great carvings. Nowadays all is made with machines and we rarely see someone with such skills.

Really beautiful

Oh my goodness the pictures are amazing!!! So gorgeous all the work of into them wow 😲!!! Say hi to mom

nice photos

Thank u for sharing :)

Amazing decorations and the combination of colors couldn't be better than this. Great post @slowwalker, really good content !

Really beautiful handcrafts which are showing the hard work and job sincerity.

interesting ... I have seen similar stuff in India and in some of the temples in Kerala as well

wow what a great artistic work , I like seeing such dragon decrations (I always see them on children books and films) thanks a lot for sharing (upped-always).
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Wow.... Love this

This is so beautiful. I just love asian art.

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Dragon carving ornaments are very wonderful, I imagine the Korean people used to be so very creative and have high art value and very wonderful, Korean culture is very wonderful

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wonderful post!