Iksanhyanggyo Local Confucian School Daeseongjeon Hall

A local Confucian school is an educational institution built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral guidance to local people. It was built in 1398, the seventh year of King Taejo, and after being destroyed by fire during the Japanese invasions of 1592, it was later rebuilt. The buildings that remain today include the Daeseongjeon shrine hall, the Myeongnyundang lecture hall, the east and west dormitories, a storehouse for ritual vessels, the inner and outer three-gated gates, a hongsalmun (a red-painted spiked gate marking a sacred site), and a hamabi (a stone marker instructing visitors to dismount from their horses). The Daeseongjeon is the centre of the ritual space, where the memorial tablets of sages of China and Korea are enshrined and rites are performed. It is three bays wide and two and a half bays deep, with a gabled roof shaped like the Chinese character "人" when seen from the side, and double eaves. It is built in the dapo style, in which sets of brackets supporting the roof eaves are placed not only above the columns but also between them; as the central bay is wider, it carries two sets of brackets. Memorial rites are held here twice a year, in spring and autumn.

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Region

Iksan, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산