Hanjaedang Hall

Hanjaedang is a shrine enshrining the spirit tablet of Yi Mok (1471-1498), a civil official of the early Joseon period. Yi Mok denounced Yun Pil-sang, who had urged King Seongjong to venerate Buddhism, as a treacherous and wicked man and proposed that he be put to death; this only angered the king, however, and Yi Mok was banished to the Gongju region. It is said that during his exile, striving to remain an upright scholar, he took to drinking tea instead of alcohol and wrote a book in praise of tea called the Dabu (Tea Rhapsody). In his honour, a tea-offering rite called Heondallye is held every year on the twenty-sixth day of the seventh lunar month. Hanjaedang today consists of a shrine bearing the name plaque 'Jeonggansa', together with an inner three-bay gate, an outer three-bay gate and a hongsalmun (a red-painted ceremonial gate topped with spike-like finials), arranged in a single line. The earlier shrine, built in 1848, was a gable-roofed building three bays wide and two bays deep, enclosed by a wall with an iljumun (one-pillar gate). When the shrine was moved to its present site in 1974, the old shrine building and its one-pillar gate were removed, leaving only the wall and the original site. The present shrine is built of concrete and timber and covers an area of 36 square metres. In front of the shrine stand a sotteul-sammun (a three-bay gate whose central section has a raised roof) and the Hanjaedajeong, a tea pavilion one bay wide and one bay deep, set beside a pond.

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Where it is

Region

Gimpo, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물