Kim Jang-saeng Confucian Shrine Bae Local Confucian School Site

This is a royal edict (gyoji) issued in 1717, the 43rd year of King Sukjong, ordering that Kim Jang-saeng (1548–1631), pen name Sigye, a great scholar of the mid-Joseon period, be enshrined and given memorial rites in the Munmyo Confucian shrine. Kim Jang-saeng was a Joseon-period scholar who was recommended in 1578, the eleventh year of King Seonjo, for his scholarly conduct, rose to a sixth-rank post, and served as magistrate of Jeongsan. When the Japanese invasions broke out, he distinguished himself as a jeongnang (senior clerk) in the Board of Taxation in securing provisions for the Ming Chinese forces; in 1602, the 35th year of King Seonjo, he was recommended for the honour of Cheongbaengni, a title given to officials of exemplary incorruptibility, and was appointed Deputy Minister of the Board of Punishments, but he gave up his official post and returned to his hometown to devote himself to teaching. His pupils, centred on Song Si-yeol and Song Jun-gil, formed the Giho School within the Seoin (Westerners) faction. Written vertically on hanji, traditional mulberry paper, this edict runs to 624 characters over 48 lines. Its content states that Kim Jang-saeng's scholarship and thought contributed to the state and society, and that, as a great master of the study of ritual (yehak), his considerable achievement in establishing the moral foundations of human life warranted his enshrinement in the Munmyo shrine.

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Where it is

Region

Nonsan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산