Daeeunbyeonallyeol Burial Ground

Byeon Allyeol (1334-1390), known by his pen name Daeeun, was a military commander originally from Yuan China whose clan seat was Hwangju; he came to Goryeo in 1351 in the retinue of King Gongmin. King Gongmin arranged his marriage to the daughter of Won Gae, a senior privy council official, and had his clan seat changed to Wonju, an event that made Byeon Allyeol the founding ancestor of the Wonju Byeon clan. Byeon Allyeol's grave originally stood on Juyeopsan Mountain in Yangju, but when the nearby Gwangneung Royal Tomb of King Sejo of Joseon was being built, it was relocated to its present site at Ori-dong, Pungyang. The grave's location was later lost, and after it was rediscovered a myopyo, a stone marker recording the occupant of a grave, was erected there in 1571. Byeon Allyeol's myopyo takes the form known as unsubangbu, a cloud-carved stele head set on a square base. Its inscription was composed by his sixth-generation maternal descendant Park Seung-im and written out by his seventh-generation maternal descendant Song In, who held the title Yeoseongwi. On the front of the cloud-carved head are carved clouds, the moon, and a rabbit pounding grain within the moon; on the back are carved clouds, the sun, and a three-legged crow within the sun. The marker stands 255 cm high in total and is notable for bearing a dujeon, a seal-script inscription on the stele head, a feature normally found on sindobi (memorial steles erected before the tombs of high officials) or myogal (smaller memorial steles) rather than on a myopyo. The dujeon and the stele's title inscription, however, clearly record it as a myopyo.

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Namyangju, Gyeonggi

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료