Colour
Blue and red pair
Blue for yin and red for yang, the paired colours of groom and bride.
- Direction
- yin (blue) / yang (red)
- Hex
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Yin-yang pairing
Blue and red together make the 청홍보, the paired cloth of weddings, one colour on each face.
History & tradition
Joseon wedding custom
Blue and red together stand for yin and yang, and so for the union of groom and bride. The pair runs through traditional weddings: the groom in blue and bride in red, red-and-blue silk lanterns (청사초롱), and blue-and-red wrapped gifts. 청홍보 is a recognized colour category of bojagi.
Blue-and-red wrapping is still common for wedding gifts, especially the 사주 and 함.
Sources state the yin-yang reading and the wedding use separately; specific blue-red wrapping of 사주/함 is common practice but not documented in the cited pages.
Researched with medium confidence.