Colours
Colour
Blue-green
청靑cheong
The colour of the east and of spring, and the groom's side of the blue-and-red wedding pair.
- Direction
- East (동) · Wood (목)
- Hex
#0B6DB7
Spring, new beginnings
One of the five main bojagi colors. Blue is paired with red in 청홍보, and court 청저포 is recorded.
History & tradition
Five-phase colour theory; Korean use through Three Kingdoms to Joseon
Blue-green stands for the east and wood, and so for spring. In Korean wedding custom it is the groom's colour, set against the bride's red, and the pair turns up on lanterns and wrappers as yin and yang. Bojagi were sorted by colour, and 청보 (blue wrappers) and 아청보 (dark blue) are named categories.
Still a staple of wedding wrapping and of the blue-red pairing in modern ceremonies.
Sources for this entry
적赤jeok