Namwon Sajikdan Altar

This is an altar built on the hill in front of Yongjeong-dong, Namwon, for sacrifices to the god of the land (sa) and the god of grain (jik). Since people cannot live without land and grain, whenever a new dynasty was founded its king would always build a Sajikdan Altar and hold sacrifices on behalf of the people. In this way, 'sajik', together with the royal ancestral shrine, came to stand for the state itself, so that the rise and fall of a country was expressed as the survival or ruin of its 'Jongmyo and sajik'. The Sajikdan Altar in Jongno, Seoul, was built in 1394, the third year of King Taejo of Joseon, and sacrifices were held there to pray for the peace of the state and its people and for good harvests. Sajikdan altars were also ordered to be established in every locality, so that each year in the first lunar month the magistrate of the county would go to the altar to pray for the peace and good harvests of the area, and in times of severe drought the residents would also hold rain-prayer rites there.

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Where it is

Region

Namwon, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물