Sungsinjeon Hall

It was built in 1898, the second year of the Gwangmu era, by county magistrate Gwon Sang-mun to hold memorial rites for King Talhae, the fourth ruler of Silla. From 1906, the founding kings of Silla's three surnames (Park, Seok and Kim) were enshrined together here, and from that time it came to be called Sungsinjeon. It originally stood within Wolseong (the Silla palace site) but was moved to its present location in 1980 when the houses inside Wolseong were cleared, and memorial rites are held in spring and autumn, at the spring and autumn equinoxes. Of the three royal surnames of Silla, King Talhae (r. 57–80) was the first king of the Seok lineage, and the following legend is told of him. The queen of Tapana, a country far to the northeast of Japan, became pregnant and, seven years later, gave birth to a large egg. Considering the egg inauspicious, they placed it in a chest and set it adrift on the sea, and the chest eventually washed ashore in Silla territory. An old man found the chest, and on opening it discovered a child inside, whom he took in and raised; because magpies had cried and followed when the chest was retrieved, the character 鳥 (bird) was removed from 鵲 (magpie), leaving 昔, which became the child's surname, Seok. He was given the name Talhae, meaning "emerged by opening [the chest]." Sungsinjeon consists of a three-kan main hall, a two-kan jeonsacheong (hall for preparing ritual offerings) and a four-kan sangyijae (hall for ritual preparation), and its roof is a hip-and-gable roof, which forms the shape of the character 八 (eight) when viewed from the side.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료