Hongsangaeksa Temple

This guest house was built in Hongsan-gun in 1836, the second year of King Heonjong of Joseon. A guest house of this kind was a place where the king's jeonpae, a tablet symbolising royal authority, was enshrined and rites of distant obeisance toward the palace were performed on the first and fifteenth days of each month, while also serving to receive and put up overnight the central government officials sent down bearing royal orders. The main hall stands at the centre, flanked on either side by wing chambers. The main hall measures three bays across the front and three bays to the side, with a matbae (gabled) roof whose side profile forms the shape of the character 人; its front is left open without doors, while the sides and rear are enclosed with walls, and the interior is a single open space forming a large wooden-floored hall. The east wing chamber, measuring five bays across the front and two bays deep, has its front open with a narrow veranda floor; the right three bays form a wooden-floored hall, and the left two bays contain an underfloor-heated room. The west wing chamber measures three bays across the front and two bays deep and has the same structure as the east wing, except that it has a wooden-floored room instead of an underfloor-heated one, and its hall is open not only at the front but also at the sides and rear. The wing chambers have an ornate hipped-and-gabled roof, whose side profile forms the shape of the character 八, and stand one level lower than the main hall. A plaque reading "Bihonggwan" (飛鴻館) hangs on the building, and a record titled the Gaeksagi survives. The Hongsan guest house is relatively large for a building of its type, though its east and west wing chambers differ in size and so do not form a symmetrical whole.

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Where it is

Region

Buyeo, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산