Samgaheon House, Dalseong

Myo-dong, in Habin-myeon, Dalseong-gun, is a clan village of the Suncheon Park lineage, home to the descendants of Chungjeonggong Park Paeng-nyeon (1417–1456), one of the Sayuksin (Six Martyred Ministers). Samgaheon is separated from this Park clan village by a low hill. It began when Park Seong-su, an eleventh-generation descendant of Park Paeng-nyeon, built a thatched house here in 1769 and named it Samgaheon after his pen name. His son, Park Gwang-seok, later moved from nearby Myogol to set up a separate household on the present site in 1783, and in 1826 pulled down the thatched house and built the anchae (women's quarters) and sarangchae (men's quarters). Haeyeopjeong, meaning "pavilion of the lotus leaf," is a detached pavilion created in 1874 by Park Gwang-seok's grandson, Park Gyu-hyeon, who turned the hollow left by the large quantity of earth dug out when the house was built in 1826 into a pond, planted lotuses in it, and moved the Pasan Seodang (village school) to stand in front, naming the building Haeyeopjeong accordingly. The name Samgaheon (三可軒) comes from the Doctrine of the Mean (Jungyong). Chapter 9 states that the realm, its states and its clans can be governed, that office and stipend can be declined, and that one may even tread upon a bare blade — yet the Mean is impossible to attain. This is explained as meaning that governing the realm corresponds to wisdom (智), declining office and stipend to benevolence (仁), and treading upon a blade to courage (勇) — in other words, that the name signifies the full range of virtues a true scholar (seonbi) should possess. Haeyeopjeong was originally a straight ("il"-shaped) building of four bays, to which a numaru, a raised open wooden-floored bay, was later added at the front. The pond is a rectangle extending lengthwise in front of it, with a round island at its centre reached by a single-log bridge. The pavilion was originally used as a seodang, and its front bears both the pavilion's own name plaque, "Haeyeopjeong," and a plaque reading "Pasan Seodang" (巴山書堂). The anchae is a six-bay building with a front veranda bay, built in the three-pillar, three-purlin (samnyang) style; it burned down in a fire in April 2009 and was subsequently rebuilt. Overall, it is a representative house that preserves well the characteristics of a provincial yangban residence built in the mid-Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Dalseong, Daegu

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산