Yangjeongpyeon

Yangjeongpyeon is a textbook on moral cultivation for children, compiled by Jeong Gyeong-se (pen name Ubok, 1563–1633), who served as Minister of Personnel and as Chief Academician under King Injo of Joseon. Jeong Gyeong-se wrote this book after reflecting on his own childhood: at the age of eight, under his father's instruction, he had studied the Sohak (Elementary Learning) and learned how to be humble and gentle towards his elders, yet regretted that he had not been able to put this fully into practice. Wishing to spare his own son the same failing, he lightly revised the "Dongja Yepyeon" (Chapter on Children's Etiquette) from the Hyanggyo Yejip, a work by an eminent Confucian scholar, so that children could grasp it more easily. It was written out by Jeong Gyeong-se himself in his own hand in 1604, the thirty-seventh year of King Seonjo. Although it resembles a simple portable primer or study guide for beginning students, it is in fact a draft manuscript. This book is regarded as an important source for research into elementary textbooks of the Joseon period and into contemporary views of children's education.

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Where it is

Region

Jongno-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산