Songhoseowon Confucian Academy, Hamyang

Songhoseowon Confucian Academy was built by Confucian scholars of Gyeongsang Province to honour Go-eun Yi Ji-hwal (1434–?), a scholar of the early Joseon period. When King Danjong was deposed by Grand Prince Suyang and exiled to Yeongwol, Yi Ji-hwal gave up his official post and spent the rest of his life in reclusion in the mountains until his death. After he died, in 1891, the 28th year of Emperor Gojong, the state posthumously conferred on him the post of Minister of Personnel (Ijo Panseo). The academy, founded in 1830, the 30th year of King Sunjo, was dismantled in 1869, the sixth year of Emperor Gojong, under Heungseon Daewongun's order abolishing Confucian academies, but was restored again in 1947. It later additionally enshrined Yi Eo, a son of King Sejong the Great who died here in Hamyang, and Song-gye Yi Ji-beon, a grandson of Yi Ji-hwal, so that the academy now holds the memorial tablets of three people. The main buildings on the grounds are Gyeongangsa Hall, Seungsamun Gate serving as the main entrance, and a lecture hall also known as the seowon. Gyeongangsa Hall houses the three memorial tablets, while the lecture hall, once used for education, has a wooden-floored hall at its centre flanked by heated ondol rooms on either side. There are also a building for preparing rites and storing ritual implements, and a building where the academy's caretaker lives. The educational function has since ceased, and memorial rites are now held only each spring and autumn.

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Hamyang, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료