Pyeonghae Hwang Clan Haewol Head House, Uljin

This head house comprises three buildings — a jeongchim (main hall), a shrine and a pavilion — designated together as Folk Heritage under the name Pyeonghae Hwang Clan Haewol Head House, Uljin. The buildings are arranged facing south against the hill behind them, with the jeongchim, pavilion, shrine and a mill set out in sequence. On passing through the gatehouse, which was restored in 1993, a visitor crosses a broad yard with the jeongchim and pavilion standing side by side, and the shrine set behind them; this arrangement well illustrates the character of the region's upper-class houses. The anchae (main hall) is a square, courtyard-type building seven bays across the front and six and a half bays deep, with a single-eaves gable tiled roof; one bay projects forward on each side at the front, giving it the form of a house with two wings. A sarangchae (men's quarters) with a single-eaves hipped-gable roof is attached to the east side of the anchae. Passing through the middle gate, a three-bay daecheong (open wooden-floored hall) lies behind the inner yard, flanked by an anbang (inner room) and a sangbang (secondary room), each of which has a wing room attached at the front. The pavilion, Haewolheon, was built as a separate structure by Hwang Yeo-il. It is four bays across the front and one and a half bays deep, a single-eaves hipped-gable tiled building with a timber floor at the front finished like a raised numaru floor and enclosed by a balustrade. Its plan centres on a two-bay daecheong in the middle, with ondol rooms in the bays to either side — a 'central hall with side chambers' layout. The pavilion originally stood at the foot of Maaksan Mountain in Sadong-ri, Giseong-myeon, where it was built in 1588, the twenty-first year of King Seonjo, but in 1847, the thirteenth year of King Heonjong, his descendants relocated it to its present site within the head house. The shrine stands behind the pavilion. It is three bays across the front and one and a half bays deep, with a single-eaves gable tiled roof, and enshrines the ancestral tablet of Hwang Yeo-il, styled Haewol; because this tablet is never removed from ritual, the shrine is known as a bulcheonmyo, an 'unremovable shrine' reserved for ancestors of exceptional merit. Hwang Yeo-il (1556–1622), whose courtesy name was Hoewon and pen name Haewol or Haewolheon, belonged to the Pyeonghae Hwang clan. Renowned from youth for his literary skill, he passed the lower civil examination in 1576, the ninth year of King Seonjo, and in 1585 passed the special state examination with Eulgwa honours. When the Japanese invasions broke out in 1592, the twenty-fifth year of King Seonjo, he served with distinction as an aide to the supreme commander Gwon Yul, and in 1594 became a jeongnang, a section chief, of the Board of Punishments. In 1598 he travelled to Ming China as a documents officer, and under King Gwanghaegun he served as magistrate of Dongnae and as a junior councillor of the Board of Works; after his death he was posthumously granted the senior second-rank title of Gasun-daebu and appointed vice minister of the Board of Personnel. The property was formerly designated under the name Haewolheon, and was redesignated on 14 June 2012 as Pyeonghae Hwang Clan Haewol Head House, Uljin.

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Where it is

Region

Uljin, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산