Songsanghyeon Documents

These are documents recording the achievements of Song Sang-hyeon (pen name Cheongok), who died fighting in the Battle of Dongnae Fortress during the Japanese invasions that broke out in 1592, the twenty-fifth year of King Seonjo's reign, while serving as magistrate of Dongnae. They are valuable materials that convey both the course of the Battle of Dongnae Fortress during the Japanese invasions and the character of Song Sang-hyeon. The relics of Song Sang-hyeon number twelve items in all: one Dongnaebu sunjeoldo (Painting of the Martyrs of Dongnae), three royal certificates (gyoji), four memorial texts (chujemun), one Hyeolseonbal (Postscript on the Blood-written Fan), one Hyeolseondo (Painting of the Blood-written Fan), one Cheongoksupiljip, and one further Cheongoksupiljip. These relics, handed down as a single collection belonging to Song Sang-hyeon, are of very high value. The Dongnaebu sunjeoldo was painted in 1658, the ninth year of King Hyojong's reign, by Min Jeong-jung (1628-1692), the magistrate of Dongnae, based on the account of an elderly man well acquainted with the situation of the Battle of Dongnae Fortress during the Japanese invasions. The royal certificates consist of a certificate of posthumous appointment as Left Vice-Premier of the State Council, a certificate awarding the posthumous title 'Chungnyeolgong', and a certificate awarding the posthumous title 'Jeonggyeong-buin' to his wife. The memorial texts consist of a memorial text for a state rite held in the gyeong-o year under King Yeongjo, a memorial text personally composed by King Yeongjo for a rite marking the Japanese invasions, and a memorial text for a memorial altar rite for the Japanese invasions at Dongnae, composed under King Sunjo. The Hyeolseonbal is a piece composed in 1756, the thirty-first year of King Yeongjo's reign, by Yun Bong-gu in praise of Song Sang-hyeon, based on sixteen characters written in blood that had been handed down, reading 'a lone fortress beneath a hazy moon, the garrison resting at ease; the bond between lord and subject weighs heavier than that between father and son.' The Hyeolseondo depicts the fan on which Song Sang-hyeon wrote a message in blood and sent to his father just before the fall of Dongnae town wall in 1592; the fan itself was painted at a later date, and on the evidence of the already-designated Hyeolseonbal it is presumed to have been painted around 1756. The Cheongoksupiljip records questions and answers that Song Sang-hyeon exchanged with various teachers of his day on matters of personal conduct, politics and scholarship, while the Cheongokseonsaengjip (Collected Works of Master Cheongok) is a book compiled in 1835, the first year of King Heonjong's reign, in movable wood type by Song Dal-ho, Song Sang-hyeon's ninth-generation descendant, based on a manuscript draft kept within the family.

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Region

Cheongju, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산