Yeongyang Local Confucian School

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school established by the state to hold memorial rites for Confucius and other sages and to educate and edify the local population. Yeongyang Local Confucian School was first built in 1677, the third year of King Sukjong, but all its present buildings are in the architectural style of the late Joseon period. The surviving buildings are Daeseongjeon Hall, Myeongnyundang Hall, Dongjae (the east dormitory), Seojae (the west dormitory) and Sinmun Gate (the inner three-door gate). Daeseongjeon Hall measures five bays across the front and three bays to the side, its roof a gable roof shaped, when seen from the side, like the Chinese character 人 (person); inside, it enshrines the spirit tablets of Confucius and of sages of China and Korea. Myeongnyundang Hall, where students gathered to study, measures five bays across the front and two bays to the side; its signboard was written by Han Su, a renowned calligrapher of the late Goryeo period. In the Joseon period the state provided land, slaves and books to support the school's teaching, but today its educational function has disappeared and only its memorial-rite function remains.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongyang, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료