Maecheonsa Temple

This is a shrine enshrining the spirit tablet of Hwang Hyeon (1855–1910), pen name Maecheon. Hwang Hyeon was a patriot who died for his country in the closing years of Joseon, as well as a poet and writer. He was born in Gwangyang, Jeollanam-do, and from childhood was skilled at composing poetry and showed outstanding talent. When the Donghak Peasant Revolution, the Gabo Reform and the Sino-Japanese War broke out one after another in 1894, he felt a sense of crisis and wrote down his experiences and what he had seen and heard in the Maecheon yarok and the Ohagimun, which he left to later generations. In November 1905, when Japan forced through the Eulsa Treaty and stripped Korea of its sovereignty, he attempted, together with Kim Taek-yeong, a movement to restore national sovereignty, but it failed. In August 1910, when the country was forcibly annexed by Japan, he left behind four farewell poems and a testament, and took his own life by taking opium. In 1962 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation (National Medal class), and together with Yi Geon-chang and Kim Taek-yeong he is known as one of the "Three Talents of the Late Joseon Period." This shrine, built in 1955 at the place where he had lived by his descendants and local Confucian scholars, has a front of three kan and a side of one kan, with a gable roof (matbae roof) shaped like the Chinese character 人 when viewed from the side.

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Where it is

Region

Gurye, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료