Bonghwa Sadongchuwonjae Hall

This memorial hall (jaesa) was built in 1661 by Gwon Sang-chung, eldest son of Gwon Rae (pen name Seokcheon-geosa), to guard his father's tomb. Gwon Rae was a grandson of Chungjae Gwon Beol and had served as director of the Gunjagam, the Office of Military Provisions, during the reign of King Gwanghaegun. During the Japanese colonial period, in 1920, Gwon Sang-ik (pen name Seongjae), a descendant of Gwon Du-eung, lived near Sadong Chuwonjae and, while teaching at Sadong Deokcheon Seodang, took part in the independence movement through the activities of a corps of Confucian scholars. In 1919 he joined the first such movement, the Paris Jangseo - a petition addressed to the Paris Peace Conference - but it came to nothing; undeterred, in 1920 he drafted a second petition intended for the President and ministers of China. The hall is therefore a historic site of the independence movement with a long history. Entering through the L-shaped gate quarters built at the front, one crosses a courtyard to the Sangsil, the main hall - a three-bay building with a hipped-and-gabled tile roof set on a high platform, facing east. On the right of the courtyard stands the Dongnu (East Pavilion), a two-storey, three-bay building with a gable roof, the whole forming a roughly square layout. The hall stands in Sadong-gol valley, beyond Okjeokbong Peak to the southeast of Dakssil Village. The tombs of Gwon Rae and Gwon Du-eung lie on the ridge at Sagimakgol, facing northeast, and Chuwonjae stands on the low hill to their east, close enough that memorial rites can be performed looking toward the tombs from the pavilion. The main hall faces east, the pavilion faces south, and the servants' quarters face the courtyard; because rites had to be held in the pavilion in wet weather, the pavilion was oriented toward the tombs, giving the complex a layout faithful to the needs of tomb ritual. The main hall occupies the highest ground. Unlike the enclosed courtyard-house layout typical of ordinary houses in the Bonghwa and Andong region, or of chuwonjae halls generally, this complex has an open, square arrangement: the Sangsil quarters where the caretaker and head of the family line stay, the pavilion where rites are held, and the servants' quarters supporting them stand apart from one another rather than joined, with a surrounding wall and similar facilities added.

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Where it is

Region

Bonghwa, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물