Bupyeonghyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is an educational institution established by the state to hold memorial rites for the tablets of sages and to carry out the education of the local populace. Bupyeonghyanggyo Local Confucian School stands about 200 m north of the present-day Gyeongin National University of Education. In 1127, the fifth year of King Injong of Goryeo, Suju Local Confucian School was built by royal command at Mountain (San) 4, Oryu-dong, Gyeyang-gu; at the time it appears that all 56 provinces across the country established such schools accordingly. When the Annam Protectorate Government, the later name for Suju, was relocated to Gyesan-dong (Onsugol) in 1165, the nineteenth year of King Uijong, it is presumed that the Annam Local Confucian School of the day was also relocated, to south of Annamsan Mountain (near the present-day Hanuri Apartment in Gyesan 2(i)-dong). When the area became Bupyeong-bu in 1310, the second year of King Chungseon of Goryeo, the school's name was changed to Bupyeonghyanggyo. Its Munmyo (Confucian shrine) buildings were completely destroyed in the Manchu invasion of 1636, but the Munmyo was rebuilt at its present site in 1688, the fourteenth year of King Sukjong of Joseon, and has remained there to this day. The buildings that survive today are Daeseongjeon Hall, Myeongnyundang Hall, Dongjae and Seojae (the east and west dormitories), Dongmu, and the inner three-door gate. Bupyeonghyanggyo follows the typical Korean hyanggyo layout of a lecture hall in front and a shrine behind: the educational facilities, Myeongnyundang Hall and the dormitories, stand at the front, with the Munmyo facilities — Daeseongjeon Hall together with Dongmu and Seomu — set behind them. Daeseongjeon Hall, where the tablets of the sages are enshrined, along with Dongmu, Seomu, Dongjae and Seojae, are built in the gabled-roof style, while Myeongnyundang Hall has a hip-and-gable roof. Seokjeon Daeje, the memorial rite honouring the Five Great Sages of China and the Eighteen Sages of Korea, is held every year on the first day marked "jeong" in the traditional sexagenary calendar of the second and tenth lunar months.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeyang-gu, Incheon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산