DAY 28
Painting of Characters on Eight-panel Folding Screen
문자도 여덟 폭 병풍
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"If a single character can hold the duty of a person, by which character am I living?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
Filial love, brotherly respect, loyalty, faith, courtesy, righteousness, integrity, shame. Eight characters flow from right to left, laying out the duties a person ought to keep. Birds and flowers and fish were painted within the letters, surely from a wish to make hard teachings familiar to the eye. Before this screen I see that duty is not something memorized with the head but something kept before the eyes each day and worked into the body. Hung on a wall, the characters lead a person to grow into their likeness.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Choose one character to guard you through the year, and write it in a place you often look.
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📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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