Hwasun Local Confucian School Daeseongjeon Hall

Hwasun Hyanggyo, the local Confucian school, was built to enshrine and hold memorial rites for the tablets of eminent Confucian scholars and to educate and edify the local people. It was first built in 1433, the fifteenth year of King Sejong of Joseon, and has since undergone partial repairs on several occasions. It stands on a slightly elevated hill and follows the typical hyanggyo layout, with Myeongnyundang, the lecture hall, at the front and Daeseongjeon, the shrine, at the rear — the arrangement known as jeonhak-humyo, "lecture hall in front, shrine behind". Daeseongjeon is the hall where memorial rites are held for the tablets of Confucius and other sages of China and Korea. The building is constructed in the jusimpo style, with bracket sets (gongpo) that support the eaves and also serve a decorative function placed only on top of the columns, and it has a gable roof (matbae) whose sides form the shape of the character 人 (person). The building itself is relatively well preserved, though it is marred by the fact that part of its stone platform has been filled in with cement. During the Joseon period the school received land, servants and books from the state and taught students, but after the Gabo Reform of 1894 its educational function ceased, leaving only its function as a shrine for memorial rites.

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Where it is

Region

Hwasun, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산