Onyang Yi Clan Royal Calligraphy Pavilion

Hasin-ri in Geumseong-myeon, where the Onyang Yi Clan Royal Calligraphy Pavilion stands, was originally the home village of generations of the Onyang Yi clan. In the late Joseon period the Yi clan family line produced what became known as the "Five Generations, Three Filial Sons" (osesamhyo), its members noted across five generations for outstanding filial conduct. The three filial sons were Yi Tae-gwi and his great-grandsons Yi Won-bae and Yi Heung-yeop, whose filial devotion was so remarkable that it became known even to Emperor Sunjong. In 1924 the Confucian scholars of the Geumsan region submitted a petition (cheonjang) asking that the filial conduct of these three men be officially commended, and in 1925 Emperor Sunjong responded by bestowing an eight-character royal calligraphy inscription praising the virtue of the "Five Generations, Three Filial Sons" — a phrase meaning "the Onyang Yi clan's continuing filial piety." Prince Uichin (Uichinwang, 1877–1955) likewise bestowed his own calligraphy, an inscription meaning "Gate of the Three Filial Sons of the Onyang Yi Clan." The Confucian scholars of the Geumsan region and the descendants of the Onyang Yi clan had these words carved onto a stele and built the Royal Calligraphy Pavilion to commemorate their meaning.

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Where it is

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Geumsan, Chungnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료