Mujanghyanggyo 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 provide education and moral instruction to local residents. Mujanghyanggyo was first built in the second year of King Sejong (1420), but it burned down during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598). It was rebuilt in the eighth year of King Heonjong (1842) and has survived in that form to the present. The buildings that remain today are the Daeseongjeon Hall, Myeongnyundang Hall, the east and west dormitories, and Hongsalmun Gate, a red wooden gate marking the sacred precinct. The Daeseongjeon Hall, where the spirit tablets of Confucius, his disciples, and sages of China and Korea are enshrined and honoured with rites, measures three bays across the front and two bays to the side. Its roof is a gable roof that, seen from the side, takes the shape of the character 人 (person). During the Joseon period the school received land, enslaved labourers and books from the state to educate its students, but it no longer serves an educational function and only its ritual function remains today.

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Gochang, Jeonbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료