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Create a clip that tell a Korean myth story- The Sun and The Moon
This myth story tells how the sun and the moon come about.

Research on Dancheong

Korean art is often marked by the use of bold color, natural forms, precise shape and scale, and surface decoration.

Dancheong

It refers to Korean traditional style decorative coloring used on buildings or other items to convey beauty and majesty, and is done by applying various patterns and paintings in certain areas. Five basic colors are used: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black and White. Also means East, West, South, North and Center respectively.

It functions not only for decoration, but also for practical purposes such as to protect building surfaces against temperature and to make the raw state of materials less visible.

*Bold Color Used*

There were a number of different types of dancheong; even in one particular building, patterns might be differentiated according to the part of the building they were located in. Nevertheless, dancheong patterns were systemized in consistent order. The system of patterns was categorized into four different types based on the structural characteristics and positions within the decorative composition. These four types included morucho, byeoljihwa, bidanmuni and dandongmuni. 

Morucho, also called meoricho, was a pattern used in painting both ends of supporting beams (such as the ridge of a roof) or corners of a building (such as the tip of eaves). Although the pattern of morucho differed based on the era and the building, its basic patterns consisted of a green flower, water lily, pomegranate, bubble, and whi (feather). Using one sample pattern, morucho was repeatedly used in all the same parts of a building. Naturally, it occupied the largest amount of space and was most noticeable.

*Repetitive treatment*

*Surface Decoration*

Byeoljihwa refers to decorative painting that utilized a storytelling technique and occupied the gap between two morucho. It differed based on the characteristics of the building, and was not used in palace construction; instead, it was most often employed in the construction of temples. The content of Byeoljihwa consisted of auspicious animals (such as dragons, horses, lions, and cranes), the sagunja ("the Four Gentlemen" or plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo), or scenes from Buddhist sutras.

*Religious Symbols Appeal To The Gods and The Spirits For Protection and Happiness* 

Bidanmuni refers to the diverse coloring of rare and elegant designs or geometric patterns, and was used in various parts of the building, particularly in temples.

Dandongmuni involves the design of a single flower plant or animal, or the application of a single geometric pattern in one section.  

*Precise Shapes and Scale* 

*Natural Forms* 

Recap on The Sun and The Moon

In the world before the sun and the moon, only the stars existed.

It was in these early days that there lived siblings: Haesik (해식) the older brother and Dalsun (달순) the younger sister. Their mother was a poor peasant woman who sold rice-cakes for a living.

The mother was returning from the village one day when she was encountered by a tiger perched on a hill demanding a rice-cake in exchange for sparing her life. She gave it to him and the tiger went away, only to appear before her at the next hill; this time demanding two rice cakes. She gave him the cakes, only to find him again on the third hill, this time asking for four rice cakes. When the mother finally ran out of rice cakes to feed him, the tiger threatened to devour her.

The mother pleaded, saying she was the sole mother of two children. Upon hearing this the tiger's hunger grew even more vicious. He devoured the mother and then took on her clothing as a disguise. He then made his way to the house where he knew the children awaited.

At the house the children were worried that their mother was not returning. Haesik suggested they lock the door, when he heard a voice calling them from outside. Dalsun, the younger, thought it was her mother, but Haesik knew the voice was different and sensed that something was not right. The tiger urged them to open the door, but Haesik staunchly refused.

Not giving in, the tiger used some of the powder left from the rice cakes and applied it on the back of his hand, making them look white. When he inserted his fingers through a space in the door, Dalsun became convinced that it was their mother and immediately opened the door. The tiger chased them until the children climbed up to the safety of a tree.

When the tiger found an axe in the house and began chopping down on the tree, Dalsun made a prayer asking the heavens to send down a strong rope if they should be saved and a rotten rope if they were to be damned. A strong rope was sent down, and both siblings climbed up until they reached the heavens.

Seeing this, the tiger made a similar request, but the rope he got was rotten and he fell in a millet field. His blood stained the millet and this is why millet stalk is said to be red.

In heaven, Haesik became the sun (Haennim 햇님) and Dalsun became the moon (Dallim 달님), but later Dalsun complained that she was afraid of the dark. Thus Haesik decided to stand in for her so that Dalsun could become the sun.

Korean art is often marked by the use of bold color, natural forms, precise shape and scale, and surface decoration.

Koreans are not inclined to enjoy the artificial, and one will find rare traces of their efforts to decorate their surroundings. Unlike the Chinese and the Japanese, Koreans do not do artificial landscaping; to them, the little grasses and flowers that grow of their own accord along the fencerow or the wild chrysanthemums that peek out from behind the big condiment jars in the yard are landscaping enough.

Wild chrysanthemum is a most likely candidate that represent the Korean heart and mind.

Decorative patterns derived from nature or from his own imagination. There are 3 main theories to it.

-First, man felt an impulse to enhance the beauty of objects in order to make them appeal to his own strange human sense of orderliness.

-Second, he feared empty spaces because they lack the feeling of stability that wound be provided by some sort of organized principle.

-Third, the first decorations were magical or religious symbols drawn to appeal to the gods and other spirits for protection and happiness.

A look at their furniture, textiles and other everyday objects reveals different meanings of symbols such as wealth, happiness or fertility, etc; constant exposure to those symbols in the decorations that surrounded them must have had a strong influence on their thinking.

The people of old Korea worshiped Heaven, and it was said when a holy sage appeared on earth or passed away a rain of flowers fell from the sky. Flowers were, in a sense, Heaven's representatives on earth, and their  use of decorations of building was expression of the Korean heart's admiration and respect for the Celestial Being.