Jeongheonjae Hall, Suncheon

Juam-ri is a place where the Okcheon Jo clan has lived for generations for more than 500 years, and this memorial hall (jaesil) was built by the clan to hold ancestral rites for Jo Yu, the first member of the clan to settle here. According to records, at the time of its construction the compound within the wall contained the memorial hall, a village school (seodang), and a servants' quarters, suggesting that it served both as a school and as a place of ancestral worship. Today a shrine housing the spirit tablet stands at the upper eastern part of the site, a jeonsacheong (a building for preparing ritual food) stands to the north at the lower part, and a gatehouse stands at the front, the whole enclosed by a wall. The memorial hall is a single-row (il-shaped) tile-roofed building with a people-shaped (人) gable roof when seen from the side. It has a daecheong (open wooden-floored hall) at its centre and an ondol (heated-floor) room on one side for those who come to perform the rites. It is presumed to have been built around 1781, the fifth year of King Jeongjo of Joseon. As a symbolic heritage site of ancestor worship, it stands near the tomb of Jo Yu, the Jo Sun-tak House (Jeollanam-do Folk Material No. 30), Sangho-jeong Pavilion (Jeollanam-do Monument No. 258), and Gyeongcheon Seowon, making it a folklore resource that illustrates how a scholarly family lived for generations in one locality.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산