Cheonan Gimsiminjanggun Historic Remains

This is the historic site comprising the birthplace and the sasacheo (the place where he shot a serpent) of General Kim Si-min, the celebrated commander of the "Great Victory at Jinjuseong," one of the three great victories of the Imjin War. According to oral tradition handed down among the elders of Baekjeon Village, Gajeon-ri, Byeongcheon-myeon, Cheonan, this is said to be the birthplace where General Kim Si-min was born and spent his childhood. A building constructed in 1944 still stands here, now empty. The sasacheo is the place where, according to legend, Lord Chungmu (General Kim Si-min's posthumous title) shot and caught a giant serpent (imugi) with a bow at the young age of nine; a monument stands at the entrance to the village to commemorate Lord Chungmu's martial spirit and valour. The principal features are one Guam Rock and one monument stone. The Guam Rock is the rock from which Guam, the pen name of Lord Chungmu's father Kim Chung-gap, derives, and on its rear face is carved the inscription "Gimssise-geo Baekjeon-dongcheon" (the Kim clan's long residence at Baekjeon). The monument stone was erected in 1988 by the General Kim Si-min Memorial Society and stands about 2 m tall; on the front of this natural stone is carved the inscription "Lord Chungmu General Kim Si-min's Sasacheo," and on the back are carved the names of those who erected it and the year of erection. Lord Chungmu General Kim Si-min, at the "Great Victory at Jinjuseong," one of the three great victories of the Imjin War, won a great feat of arms, meeting some 30,000 Japanese troops with only about 3,800 soldiers and killing around 20,000 of them. According to historical sources such as the Guamjip, he was born in Baekchon-ri, Mokcheon-myeon (present-day Gajeon-ri, Byeongcheon-myeon), and the sasacheo, where the general is said to have shot an imugi in the stream before the village when he was nine years old, is preserved and managed today. The site is considered worthy of preservation as a place to honour the general's achievements and to serve as a site of historical education.

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Where it is

Region

Cheonan, Chungnam

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물