After passing through the 4 Heaven Kings Gate, I saw the gate which I’ve never heard before.
The name of the gate was Sangwang-mun, which meant ‘Elephant King Gate”.
The appearance was not special, but the name itself looked special.
Entering into the gate, I noticed that this was the resident place for the monks.
Usually this private spaces were forbidden to ordinary people. But when the gate is opened, it is as same as the permission of entering into.
There was a monk spreading his washing cloths to dry under the sunlight.
Near his household, there were the traditional Seasoning Sauce Crocks.
It must be soy sauce. It is very difficult to make good soy sauce. It needs a time and the patience with a true heart.
This soy sauce making process is the symbol of Korean way of slow life.
But now it was changed too much in Korea. Everything goes fast.
Now this traditional sauce making process is being disappeared in Korea.
It seems troublesome way of living in city life.
Now my mom’s generation keeps this tradition, so people would forget how to make the traditional soy sauce after my mom’s generation.
Only the temples are preserving the traditional way of life.
So it was so glad to see those traditional sauce crocks.