10 long live things carved on the wall Chimney.

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If you could find something easily, it meaned that would be not so important.

Finally, I had arrived at the most important and meaningful spot in Gyeong Bok Goong tour. That is the 10 long live things carved on the wall chimney near the Queen mother's room.

It seemed that there were not so many people looking at this national treasure.

It is strange that there were no tourists in meaningful place usually not only in Gyeon Bok Goong but also in other places.

It is hard to understand for me why they had carved a this magnificent relief here.
The one who had carved a this relief would be an ordinary worker.
Nobody knows his name. But his work have survived today. So I visited here to see this chimney

For enjoying historical relics, your imagination power is essential.

With imagination, you could concentrate for the motive of worker's.
You could get into his mind and heart.

At that time, everybody knew what the life of the Queen would be.
Noble family wanted their daughter to be selected for the Queen.
Once selected, the selected family could get political power.
From time to time, this kinds of struggle for political power had resulted in the Death of Queen's family or even herself.

It would be exceptional case for the Queen to enjoy happy life in Choson Dynasty.

Some lost their parents and brothers, some lost their children, in some case the Queen herself could be excuted through the struggle for the political power.

So my imagination is that the worker had made a relief with a pray of long live for the Queen mother who had survived through political struggle

Then, let's look at one by one.

this is believed as a dragon

cranes, left and right side of the dragon.

elephant ?

left part

right part

trees and flowers

animals and birds

This 10 long live thing carved was designated as the National Treasure.

But it was sorry it seemed not to be protected properly as it's importance.