Suwon Chungmanje

Suwon Chungmanje is located in Hwaseo-dong, Paldal-gu, Suwon. It is an irrigation facility built to the west of Hwaseongbu, on the west side of Hwaseong Fortress, and is also known as Seoho, meaning "West Lake". As he built Hwaseong Fortress, King Jeongjo had it constructed in 1795, the twenty-third year of his reign, as an irrigation reservoir funded with 30,000 nyang from the royal privy purse. The name Chungmanje expresses a wish for a harvest of ten thousand seok for a thousand, ten thousand years. Two sluice gates were installed at either end of the embankment, devices for drawing on the water impounded in the reservoir. Because it was an embankment of national importance, one superintendent (gamgwan) and one overseer (gamgo) were assigned to manage it. The state-farm land laid out below Chungmanje amounted in total to 83 seok, 15 du and 4 seung of sown area. After taking the throne, King Jeongjo identified irrigation facilities as the key to improving agricultural technology and the farming environment. Accordingly, while building Hwaseong Fortress he also had Manseokgeo Reservoir, Mannyeonje Reservoir and Chungmanje built nearby. Once these reservoirs had been built and water brought under control, land once abandoned was turned into fertile fields. Chungmanje occupies an important place in the history of agricultural irrigation in the late Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Suwon, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물