Gobuhyanggyo Local Confucian School Daeseongjeon Hall

A hyanggyo is a local educational institution established by the state to hold memorial rites for Confucius and other sages, and to educate and edify local people. The exact date of Gobuhyanggyo's founding is not known, but it is said that after the original was burned down during the Japanese invasions of Korea (the Imjin War), it was relocated to its present site and rebuilt in 1597, the thirtieth year of King Seonjo. The surviving buildings include Daeseongjeon, Myeongnyundang, Dongmu and Seomu, staff quarters, the inner three-gated gate, the outer three-gated gate, and a hongsalmun (red spiked gate); the transmitted relics include ritual vessels, ritual robes and books. Daeseongjeon is the hall where memorial rites are held, and stands higher up the site than Myeongnyundang, the hall used for education. It measures five bays across the front and three bays deep, and its roof is a gable roof shaped like the character "人" (person) when viewed from the side. Inside are enshrined the spirit tablets of Confucius and of sages of China and Korea. During the Joseon dynasty the state supplied land, slaves and books so that the school could teach students, but today its educational role has disappeared and only its function of holding memorial rites remains.

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Jeongeup, Jeonbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료