Chungju Local Confucian School

A national educational institution built to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars, enshrining their ancestral tablets, and to oversee the education and moral instruction of the local people. It was first built at the foot of Gyemyeongsan Mountain in 1398, the seventh year of King Taejo of Joseon, but was destroyed by fire during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592) and rebuilt at its present site in 1629, the seventh year of King Injo. The surviving buildings are the Daeseongjeon (Shrine Hall), the Dongmu and Seomu (east and west shrine halls), Myeongnyundang (lecture hall), the east and west dormitories, and the inner and outer main gates. The Daeseongjeon enshrines the ancestral tablets of Confucius and other eminent Confucian scholars of China, while the Dongmu and Seomu enshrine the tablets of eighteen sages of Korea, together forming the ritual space. Myeongnyundang was the lecture hall where students once gathered to study, but it lost its educational function after the Gabo Reform of 1894. Since 1976 it has operated as Myeongnyunhagwon, teaching Chinese classics, calligraphy and the Confucian scriptures. Each year it also honours filial sons and dutiful daughters-in-law from Chungju and the former Jungwon-gun.

AI Translation

Where it is

Region

Chungju, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산