Gimhae Jangbangnigaldaejip

The reed house (galdaejip) consists of three traditional dwellings roofed with eulalia, a kind of silver grass, rather than rice straw. After Gyeonggangsa Temple was built halfway up the hill behind the site, one of the three houses - the one serving as the main house (anchae) - came to function as both an ancestral shrine hall (jaesil) and monks' quarters (yosachae), and was accordingly named Yeonggangjeong. The date when these three houses were first built is unknown, but according to oral testimony, people who fled here after the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1599) began settling along Hwapocheon Stream, a tributary of the Nakdonggang River, building thatched huts roofed with eulalia; judging from this testimony together with the construction techniques of the surviving structures, the houses are thought to have been first built no later than sometime before the 1900s. Houses with eulalia-thatched roofs were said to be common enough to form whole villages until the New Village Movement (Saemaul Undong) of the 1970s, but today, apart from this reed house, almost no trace of them remains. The village surrounding the reed house, located in Jangbang-ri, Hallim-myeon, along Hwapocheon Stream, a tributary of the Nakdonggang River, is called Chomak-gol, meaning 'village of many thatched huts.' A chomakjip is a house roofed with eulalia, differing in roofing material from a chogajip, which is thatched with rice straw. In the Gimhae area such houses are also called saepuljip or saejip.

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Where it is

Region

Gimhae, Gyeongnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료