Books and Documents held at Otgolgyeongju Choe Clan Baekburampa Head Family

These are the books and documents held by the head family of the Baekburam branch of the Gyeongju Choe clan in Otgol, comprising 664 items in two categories. This family belongs to the Gwangjeonggong branch of the Gyeongju Choe clan and was a leading lineage of the Daegu region in the late Joseon period. In particular, from the time of Choe Heung-won (pen name Baekburam), a great scholar who represented the Confucian literati of the Yeongnam region in the mid-eighteenth century, the family became established as one of the leading lineages of Yeongnam. The ancestor who first settled the family in Daegu was Maengyeon, an eleventh-generation ancestor of Choe Heung-won, and from then on the family lived for generations in Jimyo-dong, Dodong, Otgol and other such places. It was in the time of Dongjip, Baekburam's fifth-generation ancestor, that the family settled in Otgol; he had four sons, but only the descendants of the eldest son continued to live for generations in Otgol, while all the other descendants moved elsewhere. The documents currently held by this family are important materials showing the actual condition of local gentry families of the Daegu region in the late Joseon period. In particular, materials such as the fifty-five-year diary kept by Choe Heung-won, known as the Yeokjung ilgi, and records relating to the Buin-dong village compact, are valued as important source material for making up for the shortcomings of official historical records and for understanding the social and economic realities of the period, since their content has a concreteness, specificity and accuracy of its own.

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Where it is

Region

Dong-gu, Daegu

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산