Jeong Yeo-chang Ildumunjip Woodblocks

These are printing woodblocks carved with the collected writings of Ildu Jeong Yeo-chang (1450–1504), an early Joseon civil official and one of the Five Sages of Joseon Confucianism. Jeong Yeo-chang was a disciple of Kim Goeng-pil and Kim Jong-jik, and during the Muo sahwa, the literati purge of 1498, he was exiled to Jongseong. Then, during the Gapja sahwa of 1504, he suffered bugwanchamsi — the posthumous exhumation and beheading of his corpse. Jeong Yeo-chang was a leading authority on Neo-Confucianism in his time, thoroughly versed in the classics and histories, and widely read as he put his learning into practice; but because of the literati purges, almost none of his writings survived, and only a small collection of his remaining works has come down to us. This collection, gathered and checked jointly by Jeong Gu and Jeong Yeo-chang's great-grandson Jeong Su-min, was first published in 1635, the thirteenth year of King Injo. Then, in 1743, the nineteenth year of King Yeongjo, Doam Yi Jae supplemented what had been omitted from the first edition and edited it into a three-volume set of remaining works. Later, in 1919, Namgyeseowon Confucian Academy again compiled Jeong Yeo-chang's poetry and prose, a record of his teachers and friends, and material collected by his descendant Jeong Hwan-ju, publishing it as a four-volume sequel including an appendix. The collection thus comprises three volumes of remaining works and four volumes of sequel, and the woodblocks are now kept at the Jangpangak, the woodblock repository of Namgyeseowon Confucian Academy.

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Where it is

Region

Hamyang, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산