Danyang Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local educational institution built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction for the local people. Danyang Local Confucian School was founded in 1415, the fifteenth year of King Taejong, and was moved to its present site in the early part of King Myeongjong's reign (1545–1567), when Yi Hwang was serving as county magistrate. It was repaired twice during the reign of King Yeongjo (1724–1776), and has been repaired on several occasions since. The surviving buildings today are Daeseongjeon Hall, Dongmu, Seomu, Myeongnyundang Hall, Dongjae, and subsidiary structures. Bounded by the inner three-gate, the front holds the space for learning centred on Myeongnyundang Hall, while the rear holds the space for memorial rites centred on Daeseongjeon Hall, following the typical hyanggyo layout of study to the front and shrine to the rear. In the Joseon period the school received land, servants, and books from the state and used them to teach students, but after the Gabo Reform of 1894 its educational role ceased, and today only the spring and autumn memorial rites are held.

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Where it is

Region

Danyang, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산