Punggihyanggyo< Daeseongjeon Hall Dong.seomu>

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. Punggihyanggyo originally stood 8 ri (about 3.1 km) west of the county town; Ju Se-bung moved it to this site and rebuilt it in 1542, the thirty-seventh year of King Jungjong. It was moved back to its old site in 1692, the eighteenth year of King Sukjong, before being relocated once more to its present location in 1735, the eleventh year of King Yeongjo. The surviving buildings include Myeongnyundang Hall, where students studied; Gyojiksa, the building from which the school's affairs were managed; Naesammun, the inner gate leading to the shrine; and Daeseongjeon Hall, the shrine, together with the Dongmu and Seomu, the east and west outbuildings housing subsidiary tablets. The walls and lattice windows of Daeseongjeon and the Dongmu and Seomu are particularly distinctive, giving the buildings an antique character. 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. It holds more books than most other hyanggyo, and is a place of long standing that has provided much valuable material for research into the local history of the region.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산