Cheonunjeongsa Temple

Cheonunjeongsa is a study retreat built around 1700 by the Neo-Confucian scholar Siksan Yi Man-bu (1664–1732), who lived during the reign of King Yeongjo of Joseon. Quoting a line of verse by the Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi, he named the building "Cheonunjae"; the wooden-floored room was called "Cheonundang" and the ondol, or heated, room "Yanghoryo". The building is ㄱ-shaped, three bays wide and one bay deep, and comprises a wooden-floored room, an ondol room and a kitchen. Unusually, the two sides of the roof are treated differently: above the wooden-floored room it is a plain matbae, or gable, roof, whose profile resembles the Chinese character 人 ("person"), while above the ondol room it is an ornate paljak, or hip-and-gable, roof, whose profile resembles the character 八 ("eight"). In front of the building lies a square pond known as Jogamdang. Yi Man-bu's own writing, the Nogokgi, records the overall layout of the site.

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Where it is

Region

Sangju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산