Changnyeolsa Temple

This shrine enshrines the spirit tablets of Yun Jip (1606–1637), O Dal-je (1609–1637) and Hong Ik-han (1586–1637), loyal officials of the mid-Joseon period known together as the Samhaksa (Three Scholar-Martyrs). During the Byeongja War, the Manchu invasion of 1636, in the 14th year of King Injo, they argued that the Qing envoy who had brought a humiliating document demanding Joseon become a vassal state should not be allowed to leave alive. The following year, however, Joseon suffered the humiliation of Samjeondo at Namhansanseong Fortress and was forced into a degrading peace settlement, after which the three were taken captive to Qing China. Emperor Taejong of Qing personally took part in interrogating them, trying persuasion and inducement, but they endured severe torture and continued to insist on resisting peace with the Qing to the end, and were eventually executed in Shenyang, China. Even the Qing emperor is said to have praised their integrity without reserve, and later generations called them the Samhaksa, honouring their deep loyalty and noble deaths. The shrine was built in 1717, the 43rd year of King Sukjong, and in 1721, the 1st year of King Gyeongjong, the king bestowed the name plaque reading 'Changnyeolsa'. It was not destroyed even under Heungseon Daewongun's order abolishing private Confucian academies. The shrine building is five bays wide and three bays deep, its roof a gable roof shaped, when seen from the side, like the character for 'person'. Passing through the inner three-bay gate and going down, there is a lecture hall building, in front of which stands an outer three-bay gate built in recent times.

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Where it is

Region

Buyeo, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물