Cheongseongsa Temple

Cheongseongsa is a shrine dedicated to Choe Chi-won (857-?), a scholar of the late Unified Silla period. In 869 Choe Chi-won travelled to study in Tang China, where he passed the state examination. In 879, when the Rebellion of Huang Chao broke out, led by Huang Chao (820-884), leader of a peasant uprising in the late Tang, Choe Chi-won proved himself a brilliant writer by composing the Tohwangso Gyeongmun, a proclamation written to denounce Huang Chao's crimes, in order to help suppress him, and thereby helped repel the enemy. On his return to Silla, Choe Chi-won submitted more than ten proposals for political reform on pressing affairs of state, but when the nobility opposed them and they were rejected, he withdrew to Haeinsa Temple on Gayasan Mountain and spent the rest of his life there in seclusion. Cheongseongsa consists broadly of a shrine hall and a three-gated entrance. The shrine hall measures three bays across the front and two bays in depth, and is built in the chogikgong style, a wing-shaped piece of timber fitted at the top of the columns to support the load at the end of the eaves, with a double-eaved gable roof. The floor inside the shrine hall is an umulmaru, a "well-frame" floor laid out in the shape of the character 井 for "well", and Choe Chi-won's spirit tablet is enshrined at its centre. At the entrance to the shrine stands a sotdaeul samun, a three-bay gate in which the roof of the central gate is raised one level higher than those on either side.

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Where it is

Region

Pocheon, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산