Jeonghuiryang Remains

The Heoam Jeong Hui-ryang Remains is the site of the old house where Jeong Hui-ryang, a civil official of the reign of Yeonsangun, lived in seclusion; it lies on the northern slope of Heoamsan Mountain in Geomam-dong. Today only the foundation can be confirmed. The Bupyeongbu-eupji (Gazetteer of Bupyeong), in its section on historic remains, records: "The old site of Heoam is at the foot of Heoamsan Mountain in Moweolgot-myeon; the Hallim scholar Jeong Hui-ryang settled there and took the pen name Heoam, but later disappeared, and it is not known where he ended his days." This shows that Jeong Hui-ryang's pen name, Heoam, was taken from Heoamsan Mountain. Jeong Hui-ryang, a civil official of the mid-Joseon period whose ancestral seat was Haeju, whose courtesy name was Subu and pen name Heoam, was the son of Yeon-gyeong, magistrate of Cheorwon, and was born in Seoul in 1469, during the reign of King Yejong. He studied under Kim Jong-jik, founding patriarch of the Sarim faction, and in 1492 (the 23rd year of King Seongjong) passed the saengwon examination in first place. When King Seongjong died, however, a memorial he submitted together with students of the National Academy and local Confucian scholars caused controversy, and he was exiled to Haeju. In 1495 (the first year of King Yeonsan) he passed the special munkwa examination in the third rank, and the following year became a compiler in the Yemungwan and was appointed acting proofreader in the Seungmunwon. The year after that he was, together with Kim Jeon, Sin Yong-gae and Kim Il-son, granted sagadokseo — a system by which capable young officials were given leave to devote themselves wholly to study, in order to promote literary culture — a mark of his literary standing. In 1497 he was appointed Daegyo of the Yemungwan and submitted a memorial urging the king to rectify his mind and attend diligently to the royal lectures; to accept remonstrance; to distinguish the worthy from the wicked; to treat his ministers with respect and restrain the eunuchs; to honour the schools and reject heterodoxy; and to administer rewards and punishments fairly while moderating the use of state funds. The following year, as Seonmurang and acting Bonggyo of the Yemungwan, he took part in compiling the Veritable Records of King Seongjong. During the Muo sahwa of 1498 he was impeached, together with Sin Yong-gae and Kim Jeon, by Yun Pil-sang and others over the matter of historical draft records, and was punished with a hundred strokes of the cane and banishment three thousand ri away for knowing of seditious talk without reporting it; he was exiled to Uiju and then transferred to Gimhae in May 1500. He was released the following year and had his official certificate restored, but was barred from appointment to the censorial offices or the Hongmungwan. That year, when his mother died, he kept watch over her grave at Goyang, but after going out for a walk he never returned. He was quick-witted and widely learned, accomplished in literary arts, and well versed in the study of yin and yang, and is said to have had no interest in worldly advancement. His writings include the Heoamjip (Collected Works of Heoam).

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Where it is

Region

Seohae-gu, Incheon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물