Hwasansa Temple

Hwasansa was built as a jaesil (an ancestral shrine where descendants gather to honour their forebears) to uphold the integrity and loyalty of scholars such as Bak Su-gi, Nuljae Bak Sang, Chungam Kim Jeong, Anjae Bak Ji-gyeon, Saam Bak Jeong, Yuk Yu-jeong and Bak Ji-hyo, and to pass down their example to later generations. Nuljae Bak Sang was a civil official of the mid-Joseon period. He passed the jinsa examination (a preliminary civil-service licentiate degree) in 1496, the second year of King Yeonsangun, and served as Assistant Governor (dosa) of Jeolla Province in 1505. In 1511, the sixth year of King Jungjong, he became magistrate of Damyang, and in 1515 he argued for the restoration of Queen Dangyeong of the Sin clan, who had been deposed in the Jungjong Restoration. In 1526 he placed first in a special reexamination of the civil service examination, and in 1529 he resigned his post owing to illness and returned to his hometown. His writings include the Nuljaejip, and his posthumous title was Mungan. Chungam Kim Jeong was a civil official and scholar of the early Joseon period. He placed first in the state examination in 1507, the second year of King Jungjong, and became magistrate of Sunchang in 1514. Together with Nuljae Bak Sang, he argued that King Jungjong's deposition of Queen Sin had been wrong and called for her restoration. Kim Jeong was skilled in poetry, prose and painting, and carried out reform policies in pursuit of the ideal of kingly government. His writings include the Chungamjip, and his posthumous title was likewise Mungan. This shrine, built in 1961, is three kan (bays) wide and two kan deep, with a gabled roof that forms the shape of the character 人 when seen from the side.

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Where it is

Region

Jangsu, Jeonbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료