Chungsinuisadan Altar Stele

This stele stands at the foot of the hills north of Bukcheon stream in Sangju. It commemorates the loyalty of Yun Seom, Yi Gyeong-nyu and Bak Ho, who served as staff officers and died fighting the Japanese during the war, together with Kim Jun-sin and Kim Il, natives of the area who became righteous-army commanders and fought in various battles before dying honourably. For a long time after the war ended, their achievements went unrecognised. In 1738, the fourteenth year of King Yeongjo, local Confucian scholars built a shrine and began offering rites to four of the five men, excluding Kim Il, but opposition arose, and three years later the shrine was removed again. Only in 1790, the fourteenth year of King Jeongjo, was an altar named Gyeongjeoldan built on the old shrine site, where rites were offered to the four men together with the many officers, soldiers and foot-soldiers who had died alongside them. Two years later the king bestowed on the altar the name Chungsinuisadan, Altar of Loyal Subjects and Righteous Men, and personally composed a eulogy for the rites performed there; in 1793, the seventeenth year of King Jeongjo, the spirit tablet of righteous-army commander Kim Il was additionally enshrined. This stele, erected in 1794, the eighteenth year of King Jeongjo, on the basis of a royal edict, has a simple form, its body set upon a base stone, the top of the body shaped into a rounded half-moon. The edict discusses the achievements of these five men, and its content is recorded in detail in the stele's inscription.

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Where it is

Region

Sangju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물