DAY 317
Flowers and Bees <span class="mw-v — 작자 미상
Flowers and Bees <span class="mw-v 작자 미상 · 18th century · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Flowers and Bees <span class="mw-v

화봉도
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What relationship do the bees come to the flowers reveal?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This Chinese painting by an unknown hand finely holds flowers in full bloom and the bees circling above them. The flower calls with its scent and the bee gains its honey, and between them the pollen is carried. They seem to serve one another, but in truth each one's need interlocks and keeps both alive. The firmest relationship comes not from one-sided sacrifice but from a give-and-take of mutual benefit. A relationship in which I gain while the other gains too is the harmony that lasts long.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Find one way of cooperating that benefits both you and the other.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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