Goesanhyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo was a local educational institution built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to the local populace. The date when Goesanhyanggyo was first built is unknown; it was moved to its present site in 1530. It was rebuilt in 1587 and has since undergone several repairs, yet it retains its original form relatively well. The buildings that survive today include Daeseongjeon, Dongmu, Seomu, Myeongnyundang, and the east and west dormitories. Daeseongjeon is the shrine hall where the memorial tablets of Confucius and various other sages are enshrined and rites performed, forming the ritual quarters together with Dongmu and Seomu. Myeongnyundang is where students studied, forming the teaching quarters together with the east and west dormitories, the students' living quarters. The scale and layout of the buildings follow jeonhakhumyo, the typical arrangement of hyanggyo schools with the teaching quarters at the front and the shrine at the rear. During the Joseon period the school received land, books and slaves from the state to teach students, but after the Gabo Reforms of 1894 its educational role ended, and since then it has only held memorial rites twice a year, in spring and autumn.

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Where it is

Region

Goesan, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산