Daeseongjeon Shrine of Jangsuhyanggyo Local Confucian

Jangsuhyanggyo was a local educational institution established by the state in 1407, the seventh year of King Taejong of Joseon, to hold memorial rites for people of outstanding virtue and to educate the local populace. It was moved to its present site in 1686, the twelfth year of King Sukjong. Daeseongjeon Shrine is the hall for holding memorial rites for Confucius and other sages, and measures three bays across the front and three bays along the side. The roof is a gabled roof (matbae) that forms the shape of the character 人 when seen from the side; the building is not especially large, and a hinged door is fitted at the centre of the front. The bays on the right and left are each fitted with a door of the same type, beside which is a window in a lattice pattern shaped like the character 井. The decorative bracket structure supporting the eaves is elaborately ornamented, a feature characteristic of architecture from the mid-Joseon period onward. Jangsuhyanggyo survived well even through the Japanese invasions of 1592–1598, so that the form of an early Joseon hyanggyo, or local Confucian school, can clearly be seen. The books kept here are valuable material for research into local history, and Daeseongjeon Shrine in particular is one of the representative buildings of Joseon-period hyanggyo architecture.

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Where it is

Region

Jangsu, Jeonbuk

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Treasure · 보물