There seemed to exist some differences between Chinese and Korean Bells.
I’d like to compare those 2 bells.
Chinese bell must be that bell I looked at Jeon Deung Sa temple and Korea Bell is the bell I saw in Yong Ju Sa temple where I came by with my mom.
At first glance, those bells looked like similar, but as always the differences exist in detailed place.
What I’d like show you at first is the sound tube on the top of the bell.
In Korean bell, there is the sound tube at the top of the bell to make sound more profound and make the sound wave go longer.
But in Chinese bell, I haven’t heard of the sound tube.
I could found that fact in Chinese bell of Jeon Deung Sa temple.
There was no sound tube there.
The specialists told there was a great difference in making a nice sound according to the fact weather there is a sound tube or not.
The second point is the bottom line of the bell
Korean bell seemed to have simple bottom line.
But it was regrettable that I couldn't take the photos of the bottom line of the bell.
But Chines bell looked like to show us more complicated bottom line.
Even though it looked not important, but this tiny difference show us a big difference of the view point of the beauty.
Koreans tend to have the preference to the simple design, but Chinese seemed to prefer to the more complicated and gaudy style.
The third point is the patterns and the carvings on the body of the bell.
The difference regarding the patterns and the carvings seemed to be related with their traditional culture.
Korean designs on the body seemed to have close relationship with the folk myth.
On the other hands Chinese designs looked like so close with their traditional philosophy.
