Nangyesa Temple, Yeongdong

Nangyesa Temple is a shrine holding the memorial tablet of Bak Yeon (1378–1458), pen name Nangye, a civil official and music sage of early Joseon. Bak Yeon rendered great service in helping King Sejong reorganise music, and was deeply versed in musical theory and pitch systems. In the seventh year of King Sejong (1425) he compiled the Akseo, a treatise combining the modes of aak (court ritual music) with illustrations of instruments and musical scores, and in 1427 he made a set of twelve pyeongyeong (stone chime sets) and played them himself according to the twelve pitch-pipes (yulgwan) he had devised. He excelled at playing the jeok, a type of flute, as well as the geomungo and bipa, and had aak performed at court assemblies, laying the foundations of Korean traditional court music. The present building, rebuilt in 1972, has three kan across the front and two kan to the side, and its roof is a gabled (matbae) roof shaped like the character 人 when seen from the side.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongdong, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물