And to grasp the amount of preparation and the vast number of hanji paper lanterns involved, here is a glimpse at just a small portion of the loooong procession:
A dance across time and space between the ancient and the modern in bustling South Korea ... the wandering erratic footsteps of social and cultural explorations ... a never ending journey of living in the present, becoming more and more aware of cultural thoughts shaping that present, and trying to reconstruct a quickly vanishing cultural past out of that present.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
2014 Seoul Lantern Parade
The 2014 Seoul Lantern Parade, a huge procession of lanterns made from hanji (Korean traditional paper) and lights. Thousands upon thousands of participants in groups wearing matching traditional or modern-traditional hanbok were in the marching ranks. Held or propelled by participants were thousands upon many more thousands of lanterns, some massive while others small, were in the long two hour and a half procession from Dongdaemun Station to the Chogyesa, the largest Buddhist temple in Seoul. All in celebration of Buddha's upcoming birthday, solar calendar this year—May 6—the 8th day of the 4th month in the lunar calendar).
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