DAY 305
Five Rulers at New Year's Receptio
새해 조회의 다섯 군주(歲朝五帝圖)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What did a formal New Year's audience mean to convey?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting holds a scene of ruler and ministers holding a formal audience to greet the New Year. It came from the tradition of Chinese court painting, yet the heart that greets a year's beginning with care reaches anyone. I see here why ceremony is given to a beginning. The New Year's audience looks like cumbersome procedure, but its formality is a resolve not to begin the year carelessly. To open the start of anything without disorder is a sign of holding the thing precious. A heart that does not pass lightly over the beginning decides the weight of that whole year.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If you have something newly beginning, on the first day at least fasten the first button with care, without disorder.
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