Boryeong Local Confucian School

Boryeong Hyanggyo, a local Confucian school, was founded in 1723, the third year of King Gyeongjong of Joseon, to enshrine and pay tribute to the spirit tablets of virtuous Confucian scholars and to provide secondary education and moral instruction for the local people. It was repaired in 1868, 1964 and 1967. The surviving buildings include the Daeseongjeon, the main shrine hall, a structure five bays wide and three bays deep with a gable roof, together with its auxiliary buildings, following the typical hyanggyo layout of lecture buildings in front and the shrine to the rear. The east and west dormitories (dongjae and seojae) served as student quarters, and the Myeongnyundang was the lecture hall. The Daeseongjeon enshrines the spirit tablets of Confucius together with China's Five Sages and Four Worthies and Korea's Eighteen Worthies. In the Joseon period the school was granted land and servants by the state, and instructors taught students there under the supervision of the magistrate of Boryeong. After the Gabo Reform its educational role ceased, and today only the spring and autumn seokjeon rites, memorial ceremonies for Confucius, are held, carried out mainly by members of the Yudohoe, the Confucian association.

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Where it is

Region

Boryeong, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물