Haedongsoksohakpanmok

These are 128 printing woodblocks for the Haedong Sok Sohak, a Korean sequel to the Sohak, the classic Confucian primer on elementary learning, carved for the late-Joseon scholar Bak Jae-hyeong, pen name Jingye, and published in 1884, the twenty-first year of Emperor Gojong. The book classifies the maxims and conduct of Korea's sages of former times into an Inner and an Outer section. The Inner section comprises twenty-one chapters on Establishing Instruction, setting out the principles of teaching; forty-three chapters on Clarifying Human Relations, elucidating the bonds between people; thirty-five chapters on Cultivating the Self, urging care in personal conduct; and sixty-four chapters on Examining the Past, studying and reflecting on former affairs. The Outer section contains seventy-four chapters of Fine Sayings, recording admirable words, and a further 174 chapters on Good Deeds and Model Examples, among others. Together these form an introductory textbook whose educational aim was practice in everyday life. At a time when reverence for China ran deep, a Confucian scholar sought out and compiled this material, and had it used as a textbook, in order to establish the nation's own identity — a fact that gives it great value in the history of Korean education.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongdo, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산