Nosansa Temple Site

This refers to the site of Nosansa, a shrine built by Yi Hang-no (1792–1868), a Confucian scholar of the late Joseon period. In order to carry on the scholarship of the Chinese Song-dynasty Confucian scholar Zhu Xi and the late-Joseon scholar Song Si-yeol, Yi Hang-no built Nosansa, a shrine enshrining the spirit tablets and portraits of the two men, on the site of the house where he was born. After Yi Hang-no died, his descendants, wishing to pass on his scholarship and ideals for posterity, enshrined Zhu Xi at the centre of the shrine, Song Si-yeol to the east, and Yi Hang-no himself to the west. The original Nosansa was destroyed by fire during the Korean War. It was rebuilt by local Confucian scholars in 1954 and repaired in 1985. Today Yi Hang-no's tomb lies behind his birth house, with Nosansa, the shrine, standing in front of the tomb. The site of Nosansa covers an area of 264 ㎡, and the shrine building measures three kan (a bay-width unit of traditional Korean architecture) across the front and one-and-a-half kan along the side, with a gabled roof. In front of the shrine stand a myojeongbi (a stone stele recording the purpose of the shrine's establishment and the figures it honours), a memorial stone, and the Jewoldae, meaning 'the bright moon after the rain clears', signifying the search for one's true nature.

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Where it is

Region

Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물