Yonggunghyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school established by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to local people. Yonggunghyanggyo was built in 1398, the seventh year of King Taejo of Joseon, at a site 100 metres east of its present location. It was burned down during the Japanese invasions of the 1590s, and rebuilt in stages: Daeseongjeon Hall, the shrine, and Myeongnyundang Hall, the lecture hall, in 1603, the thirty-sixth year of King Seonjo, and Sesimnu Pavilion in 1636, the fourteenth year of King Injo. The Oesammun outer gate, Sesimnu Pavilion, used as a place of rest, Myeongnyundang Hall, where students studied, and Daeseongjeon Hall, the shrine, stand in a single line. The complex also follows the "hall in front, shrine behind" layout, with Myeongnyundang at the front and Daeseongjeon at the rear. During the Joseon period the school received land, books and servants from the state to educate students, but since the Gabo Reform of 1894 it has held only the memorial rites.

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Where it is

Region

Yecheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산