Onyanghyanggyo Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school established by the state to hold memorial rites for Confucius and other sages and to educate and morally instruct the people of the region. Onyanghyanggyo originally stood in Beopgok-dong but was destroyed by fire during the Imjin War (the Japanese invasions of Korea); it was then moved to its present site in the second year of King Gwanghaegun (1610). The overall layout follows the typical arrangement of education to the front and shrine to the rear, with the space for education at the front and the space for memorial rites at the rear. At the entrance stand a hamabi (a stone marker instructing riders to dismount) and a hongsalmun (a red-spiked gate marking sacred ground); passing through the outer three-bay gate, one finds directly ahead Myeongnyundang, the lecture hall, and Dongjae, the students' dormitory. Beyond the inner three-bay gate behind Myeongnyundang stands Daeseongjeon, the shrine hall, at the front. Myeongnyundang measures five bays across the front and two bays to the side, with an ornate hipped-and-gabled roof that, seen from the side, takes the shape of the character 八 (eight). Daeseongjeon measures three bays across the front and two bays to the side, with a gable roof that, seen from the side, resembles the character 人 (person). The bracket sets supporting the roof eaves are carved and decorated in the ikgong style, shaped like a bird's wing. Since the Gabo Reform, the school's educational function has ceased, and it now holds memorial rites in spring and autumn, with incense offered on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month.

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Where it is

Region

Asan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물