Eumseonghyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a state-established educational institution built to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to the local populace. Eumseonghyanggyo Local Confucian School was founded in 1560, the fifteenth year of King Myeongjong of Joseon, and was repaired in 1870 and again in 1887, the seventh and twenty-fourth years of Emperor Gojong, undergoing numerous further repairs down to the present day. The buildings that survive today are Daeseongjeon Hall, Dongjae, Seojae, and Myeongnyundang Hall. Bounded by the Naesammun Gate, the school has at the front the area for study, centred on Myeongnyundang Hall where students once studied. At the rear is Daeseongjeon Hall, where memorial rites are held for Confucius and other sages, following the typical hyanggyo layout of a study hall in front and a shrine behind. Unusually, the Dongjae and Seojae dormitories here stand behind Myeongnyundang Hall rather than in their customary position, which appears to be the result of alterations made for road construction. In the Joseon period the school received slaves, land and books from the state to teach its students, but after the Gabo Reform of 1894 its educational function ceased. Only the spring and autumn memorial rites continue to be held.

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Where it is

Region

Eumseong, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산