Uiuchong Tomb

This is the grave of a loyal cow, located in Indeok-ri, Sandong-myeon, Gumi. The mound, two metres in diameter, has a stele set up in front of it, and behind it stands a granite slab measuring 6.88 metres long, 0.8 metres high and 0.2 metres thick, on which the Uiudo — a painting depicting the cow's loyalty — is mounted. The following story is told of this place. There was once a village called Munsujeom (now Indeok-ri), surrounded by mountains on three sides. A man named Kim Gi-nyeon lived there and kept a cow. One summer, while he was ploughing his field, a tiger suddenly attacked the cow. When Kim Gi-nyeon moved to strike the tiger with his hoe, the tiger turned on him instead, and the cow gored the tiger repeatedly with its horns until it fled. Twenty days later, however, Kim Gi-nyeon died of his wounds. Before he died, he told his family that it was the cow's strength that had saved him from being devoured by the tiger, and he asked that after his death the cow should never be sold, and that even when it grew old and died, its meat should never be eaten; instead it should be buried beside his own grave. After its owner died, the cow refused to eat and cried for three days before it too died. Astonished, the villagers reported this to the local magistrate, and a memorial stele was erected. The stele was raised in 1630, the eighth year of King Injo of Joseon, by Jo Chan-han, the magistrate of Seonsan, and in 1685, the eleventh year of King Sukjong, a painter added the eight-panel Uiudo. The site was restored to its present form in 1993 in commemoration of this story.

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Where it is

Region

Gumi, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산