Nonsanchungheonsa Temple

Chungheonsa Shrine venerates Yang Gi, posthumously honoured as Chungheon-gong, together with Yang Chi, Yang Hui-ji, Yang Eung-chun and Yang Hwon, and houses a portrait of Yang Gi. It was built in the fourth year of King Injo (1626). Among those venerated, Yang Gi was a native of Hongneung in China who came to Korea at the end of the Goryeo period attending Princess Noguk, the consort of King Gongmin. Having witnessed the impoverished conditions of the Korean people at that time, he returned to China and had Goryeo's tribute system abolished; he later naturalised in Korea, was granted the title of Sangdangbaek, and became the founding ancestor of the Cheongju Yang clan. In 1686 the eldest-grandson line of the family, who had lived in Songhwa, moved to Noseong and enshrined Yang Gi's portrait and spirit tablet there; the shrine has since been repaired several times and is a traditional Korean-style building of three bays across the front and one bay deep. Gyeongmojae, which also served as a lecture hall, is a Korean-style tiled building with a hip-and-gable roof, four bays across the front and two bays deep, and was used as a place of study until the 1960s.

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Where it is

Region

Nonsan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산