Jiryehyanggyo Local Confucian School Daeseongjeon Hall

A hyanggyo is a local Confucian school established by the state to hold memorial rites for Confucius and other sages, and to educate and morally cultivate the people of the region. Jiryehyanggyo was first built in 1426, the eighth year of King Sejong of Joseon; after it burned down during the Imjin War, the Japanese invasion of 1592, it was rebuilt in 1690, the sixteenth year of King Sukjong, in the form it retains today. The Daeseongjeon Hall, where memorial rites are held before the spirit tablets of Confucius and other sages of China and Korea, measures three bays across the front and three bays deep. A portrait of Confucius, printed in dark ink from a woodblock, was once kept inside, but it was stolen in 1978, and the image of Confucius now enshrined is a replacement. During the Joseon period, the state supported the school with grants of land, slaves and books for the teaching of students, but today its educational role has ceased, leaving only its function as a site of memorial rites.

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Where it is

Region

Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료