Cheongyang Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local, state-run educational institution where sacrificial rites were held for Confucius and other sages, and where local residents were educated and morally instructed. The date Cheongyang Hyanggyo was first built is unknown, but it is said that a hyanggyo and a Munmyo, a Confucian shrine, already stood on this site in the early Joseon period. The buildings now standing date from the mid-Joseon period onward and have been repaired several times, including in 1874, the eleventh year of Emperor Gojong, and again in 1904. Within the grounds are the Daeseongjeon, the shrine hall where rites are performed; the Myeongnyundang, the lecture hall used for education; the Dongjae and Seojae, the students' dormitories to the east and west; and a caretaker's building. Inside the Daeseongjeon are enshrined the spirit tablets of Confucius and of sages of China and Korea. During the Joseon period the state supplied land, slaves and books to support the teaching of students here, but the school's educational function has since ceased, and only its function as a place of sacrificial rites remains.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongyang, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물