Hwangsansa Temple

Hwangsansa is a shrine housing the ancestral tablet of Choe Pil-dal, posthumously titled Chungmugong, built in the early 1900s after discussion among his clan and the local Confucian community. Chungmugong, one of the founding meritorious subjects of Goryeo and the founding ancestor of the Gangneung Choe clan, was a scholar versed in both civil and military learning who reformed the scholarship of his day and taught proper conduct, earning him the title "Haedongbuja." Hwangsansa measures three bays across the front and two bays in depth, and is a gable-roofed building whose roof, seen from the side, takes the shape of the Chinese character 人 (person). Within the shrine grounds also stands Munjeongmyo, a shrine holding the ancestral tablet of Choe Su-seong, posthumously titled Munjeonggong. It was built in 1936 at Nammun-dong by his descendant Choe Myeong-su and the jinsa (a holder of the lower state examination degree) Jeong Chae-hwa, among others, and was moved to its present site in 1982 as houses and other buildings encroached on the surrounding area. Choe Su-seong, a sage skilled in literary composition, calligraphy and painting, was put to death in 1521, the sixteenth year of King Jungjong of Joseon, after being falsely implicated by Kim Jeon, Nam Gon and others. Munjeongmyo is built in the same style as Hwangsansa but on a somewhat smaller scale.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산