Twin Songjeongjeongchim

The exact date of construction of the main hall (jeongchim) of Ssangsongjeong is not known. It is said, however, that Geum Hye of the Bongseong Geum clan built it when he retired in his later years to this site to lecture on and practise the Confucian Way. Geum Hye, who took Ssangsongjeong as his pen name, was a descendant of Geum Ui, who held the post of pyeongjangsa, a senior state council office, during Goguryeo. In the original layout, the square (mija-shaped) main hall faced south; behind it to the left stood the Ssangsongjeong pavilion itself (relocated to Yeungnam University in 1975), and behind it to the right stood a shrine (sadang). Today, however, both the pavilion and the shrine have disappeared, and only the main hall remains. According to a roof-ridge record (sangnyangmun) found when the pavilion was being relocated, the property was purchased by a member of the Bongseong Geum clan in the eighth month of the gyeongjin year, the 194th year after the beginning of the Chongzhen era (1820), and repaired in the fifth month of the following sinsa year (1821). There is, however, no record relating to the main hall itself, so its date of construction remains unknown. The main hall is a square (mija-shaped) building measuring seven bays across the front and five bays to the side. Centred on the tongnyegan, a central communal hall, the sarang quarters occupy the left side, while a stable, storerooms and the chodangbang, a thatched-roof study room, occupy the right. Although it is regrettable that the pavilion, shrine and mill building no longer survive, the plan and construction methods of the main hall preserve many old techniques well, retaining such elements of the traditional hanok as the division of outer space according to function.

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Where it is

Region

Bonghwa, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산