Taehwadang Hall Historic House

Taehwadang is a house built in the late nineteenth century by Jeong Ik-se (pen name Dongpa, 1842–1923), the ninth-generation descendant of Jeong Yeong-bang (pen name Seongmun, 1577–1650), the founding ancestor of the Dongnae Jeong clan who settled in Yeondang-ri. It stands in the eastern centre of Yeondang Village. The name of the house is the one given to it by Jeong Ik-se's great-grandson Jeong Su-ho (1907–1987), and it has been kept unchanged ever since. After being adopted by his father's cousin in his early twenties, Jeong Ik-se felt the need for a place in which to strengthen ties among clan members and to receive guests, and so built this house. With the further aim of fostering the family's tradition of respect for learning and of using the building as a hall for training younger scholars, he had the narrow veranda (toenmaru) in front of the sarangchae (men's quarters) built as a simple raised, railed floor in the style of a numaru, an elevated wooden-floored pavilion room. The house sits on a north-facing slope and faces south, and consists of a square (ㅁ-shaped) main house, a straight (ㅡ-shaped) storehouse and a straight (ㅡ-shaped) gate quarters. On all four sides it is enclosed by an earth-and-stone wall topped with Korean roof tiles, which marks its outer boundary, and a gate quarters stands at the front for entry and exit. Beyond the wall, to the front, runs the road Seoseokji 2-gil, named after nearby Seoseokji Pond, and a neighbouring house stands behind. The house has a wide front yard; a jangdokdae, a platform for earthenware storage jars, stands to its left, and a wall with a side gate further to the left divides this area from the rear yard.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongyang, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료