Three Ages Ochungnyeol Site

This site contains the tombs of five loyal subjects of the Haeju O clan, who over three generations gave their lives for the country, along with their shrine, Chungnyeolsa. Chungnyeolsa was built in 1681, the seventh year of King Sukjong of Joseon, and originally enshrined O Eung-jeong, his sons Uk and Jik, and Jik's son Bang-eon, and was called Sachungsa (Shrine of the Four Loyal Subjects); in recent times O Eung-jeong's son Dong-nyang has also come to be enshrined there, so it is now called Ochungsa (Shrine of the Five Loyal Subjects). O Eung-jeong passed the military service examination in 1574, the seventh year of King Seonjo, and distinguished himself in various posts; during the Jeongyu War of 1597 he escorted the king as far as Uiju. In 1597, the thirtieth year of King Seonjo, he took part in the Battle of Namwon Fortress together with his sons Uk and Dong-nyang, and when the battle ended in crushing defeat he died together with his sons rather than surrender, setting off a store of gunpowder. In commemoration, in 1759, the thirty-fifth year of King Yeongjo, a memorial rite for O Eung-jeong was held at Yongan, and he was posthumously granted the rank of Minister of War with the title Jaheondaebu. O Eung-jeong's second son, Jik, served under the supreme commander Gang Hong-rip in the Battle of Sarhu in Liaodong during the reign of King Gwanghaegun (r. 1608–1623); when Gang Hong-rip surrendered to the Later Jin forces, Jik, enraged, fought on at Buche and died of arrow wounds covering his whole body. Jik's son, Bang-eon, fought the enemy at Namhansanseong Fortress during the Second Manchu Invasion of 1636, and when King Injo suffered humiliation at Samjeondo, he drowned himself in a side stream.

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Where it is

Region

Iksan, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물