Yangsanhyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local educational institution built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to local residents. Yangsanhyanggyo was built in 1406, the sixth year of King Taejong, and was extensively repaired in 1864; according to the Yangsan-gyoji (records of Yangsan school), it is presumed to show little difference from its original form. In its layout, the Myeongnyundang lecture hall together with the east and west dormitories, where students studied, stand on the flat ground at the front, while the Daeseongjeon shrine hall together with the Dongmu and Seomu, the east and west subsidiary shrine halls used for rites, stand on the sloping ground behind — an arrangement known as jeonhak-humyo ("school before, shrine behind"). Hyanggyo are classified into three grades, daeseolwi, jungseolwi and soseolwi, according to the form and scale in which the buildings were originally built. As the outer three-bay gate of this hyanggyo was built in the form of a pavilion, and the Myeongnyundang and Daeseongjeon are relatively large, it is thought to have belonged to the jungseolwi grade. During the Joseon period the school received land, books and servants from the state to support the education of students, but since the Gabo Reforms of 1894 it has performed only memorial rites.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산