Gyeryongsan Mountain Chohongakji Site

This was a place where the spirits of the Sayuksin — the "six martyred subjects" who held firm to their principles and died rather than yield when King Sejo (r. 1455–1468) deposed King Danjong — and other loyal subjects were enshrined and consoled. In the course of Sejo's seizure of the throne, Hwangbo In and Kim Jong-seo were killed by Grand Prince Suyang, the future King Sejo. In the year after he usurped the throne, the second year of King Sejo (1456), Seong Sam-mun and the other Sayuksin were all executed after plotting to restore King Danjong. That same year, it is said that Kim Si-seup — known by his pen name Maewoldang, one of the Saengyuksin, or "six surviving loyalists" — came to Gyeryongsan Mountain, set up an altar, and held a chohonje, a rite to summon and console the spirits of the dead, on their behalf. Afterwards, in the fourth year of King Sejo (1458), the court is said to have built a Chohon-gak, a shrine to console the spirits of Danjong and some 280 others who had died at the time, including Grand Prince Anpyeong, Hwangbo In and Kim Jong-seo, enshrining their spirit tablets there. In the twelfth year of King Sejo (1466), Kim Si-seup and others added further buildings, and rites were held there every spring and autumn until the shrine burned down in a fire in the fourth year of King Yeongjo (1728); it is said to have been rebuilt in its present form in the first year of Emperor Gojong (1863) by the monk Manhwa. In 1904 it was renamed Sukmojeon, the name by which it is known today.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물