Hadong Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school built by the state to hold memorial rites for eminent Confucian scholars and to provide Confucian education and moral instruction to local residents. The exact date of this school's founding is not known, but in 1736, the twelfth year of King Yeongjo's reign, the magistrate Min Jin-gi relocated it here from Hoengcheon. It was later renovated in 1847, the thirteenth year of King Heonjong's reign, and again in 1920, and has been repaired further in recent years. Entering through Punghwaru, which served both as the main gate and as a resting place, one finds Myeongnyundang, the lecture hall where students studied; in front of it stand Dongjae and Seojae, the students' eastern and western dormitories, arranged asymmetrically. Behind Myeongnyundang is Naesammun, the inner three-door gate, beyond which stand Daeseongjeon, the shrine hall, and Dongmu and Seomu, the eastern and western shrine buildings, where Confucius and various other sages are enshrined. Overall, the buildings follow the typical hyanggyo layout of study quarters at the front and shrine at the rear. During the Joseon period the school received land, books and servants from the state to educate students, but its educational function ceased after the Gabo Reform of 1894, and today only the memorial rites continue. Compared with other hyanggyo it preserves a large number of old books, and it provides much valuable material for the study of local history in the Hadong region.

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Where it is

Region

Hadong, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산