Nampyeong Mun Clan Bollisegeoji Site

This is the place where Mun Gyeong-ho, the eighteenth-generation descendant of Mun Ik-jeom — a loyal official of the late Goryeo period who brought cotton seeds back from the Yuan dynasty and revolutionised Korea's clothing culture — settled around 1840, and where the Nampyeong Mun clan has lived together ever since. The site, originally the grounds of Inheungsa Temple, was divided into orderly house plots and straight roads before the houses were built. Today, nine residential houses together with Subongjeongsa, Gwanggeodang, and the Insu Mungo library are neatly arranged within a single enclosure, and some seventy traditional tile-roofed houses in all stand within a site surrounded by a picturesque earthen wall. Subongjeongsa is a pavilion at the entrance to the settlement, set in a beautifully landscaped garden; it is a large building used mainly for receiving guests and holding clan gatherings. Gwanggeodang was a place of cultivation where the clan's children pursued learning and refinement. The Insu Mungo, the clan's library, holds some 10,000 books, including volumes from the Kyujanggak collection; it was originally small in scale but was later greatly expanded, and a separate building was built for reading.

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Where it is

Region

Dalseong, Daegu

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산