Yeonpunghyanggyo Local Confucian School, Goesan

A hyanggyo is an educational institution founded by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction for local people. Yeonpunghyanggyo, built in 1515, the tenth year of King Jungjong, has been repaired on several occasions; during the Korean War, the Myeongnyundang Hall and the Dongmu and Seomu, its east and west auxiliary halls, were destroyed by fire. The Daeseongjeon Hall was repaired in 1978, and the Myeongnyundang Hall was rebuilt the following year. The buildings surviving today are the Myeongnyundang Hall and the Daeseongjeon Hall, together with the Gojiksa, the caretaker's quarters. The Myeongnyundang Hall was where students studied, while the Daeseongjeon Hall enshrines the spirit tablets of Confucius and various other sages, and is where memorial rites were held for them. Between the Daeseongjeon and the Myeongnyundang stands the Naesammun, an inner three-bay gate separating the space for learning from the space for ritual, following the layout typical of a hyanggyo, with the lecture hall placed in front and the shrine behind. In the Joseon period the school received land, slaves and books from the state to teach its students, but after the Gabo Reform of 1894 its educational function ceased, and today only the spring and autumn memorial rites continue to be held. The books preserved here are also valuable material for the study of local history.

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Where it is

Region

Goesan, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산