Chungjeolsa Temple

This shrine was built to commemorate the scholarship and conduct of the brothers Yi Myeong-seong and Yi Myeong-deok (1373-1444), and to train younger scholars. Yi Myeong-seong was one of the Seventy-two Sages of Dumundong, Goryeo loyalist officials who, when Goryeo fell and Joseon was founded, refused to the end to take office under the new dynasty and so preserved their integrity. Yi Myeong-deok was a civil official active from the late Goryeo to the early Joseon period, whose pen name was Sabong. He served in posts such as the Yemun Chunchugwan (Office of Royal Decrees and Annals) and Jwabudaeeon (deputy royal secretary), and when King Sejong came to the throne he held many further offices, including Vice Minister of Personnel and Vice Minister of War. He retired from office at the age of seventy and was later posthumously awarded the rank of Right State Councillor. Originally this was a shrine called Chungjeolsa, built in the reign of King Seongjong at Myeongtan in Yeongi-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, and it was also known as Myeongtan Seowon. In the eighteenth year of King Seonjo's reign (1585) it was granted its academy name by royal decree; it burned down during the Japanese invasions of 1592, and in the second year of King Cheoljong (1851) Confucian scholars of Gongju rebuilt it on its present site. In the fifth year of Emperor Gojong (1868) it was briefly abolished. In 1956 the shrine hall, Chungjeolsa, was rebuilt, and it enshrines the spirit tablets of the two teachers. In 1985 a shrine courtyard stele, a lecture hall and caretaker's quarters were built, and behind the academy stand the grave and gravestone of Yi Myeong-deok; memorial rites are held there each spring and autumn.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료