Historic Site Related to Song Si-yeol, Goesan

This is a site associated with Song Si-yeol (pen name Uam), one of the centres of Joseon-period Neo-Confucianism. Song Si-yeol (1607–1689) was a Neo-Confucian scholar and civil official of the late Joseon period who assisted King Hyojong (r. 1649–1659) in pursuing an independent policy, including the campaign to conquer the north, and trained many students as a leading authority on the teachings of Zhu Xi. Hwayang Seowon is an academy built on the site where Song Si-yeol once stayed, and it became a gathering place for many Joseon-period scholars. The site of Mandongmyo Shrine once held a shrine dedicated to the spirit tablets of the Ming Chinese emperors Sinjong and Uijong. Around Mandongmyo are sites associated with Song Si-yeol, including Amseojae Pavilion, a hamabi (a stone marker instructing riders to dismount), Eupgungam Rock, and Song Si-yeol's tomb and its spirit-path stele, as well as several rock faces near Amseojae inscribed with the phrases "loyalty, filial piety, integrity and righteousness" and "never act against propriety." This is a place imbued with Song Si-yeol's love of his country and his spirit of upholding national pride, and as a centre of Joseon Neo-Confucianism it was at one time destroyed during the Japanese colonial period. It is recognised as an important site for education aimed at restoring the national spirit.

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Where it is

Region

Goesan, Chungbuk

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Historic Site · 사적