Uiryeong Yeo Clan Hyangjesidorok and Sijojedan Altar Stele

The title page reads "Sidogi" (時到記, Attendance Record), while the spine is inscribed "Hyangjesidorok"; it is a manuscript copy. Two pages believed to be in the hand of Yeo Jung-muk (余重默), titled "Bidan illok seo" (碑壇日錄序, Preface to the Daily Record of the Stele Altar), appear at the beginning of the volume, each page written in 8 lines of 17 characters. The main text that follows, written as a fair copy, comprises 10 lines per page (averaging 20 characters per line), for a total of 461 pages. The contents can be divided into two parts: the Bidan illok (Daily Record of the Stele Altar) and the Sidogi (Attendance Record). Of the 461 pages in total, the Bidan illok occupies pages 4 to 19, while the remainder contains the Sidogi. The Bidan illok records the progress of the work and related matters from 26 February 1807, when Yeo Jung-muk set out from Andong, to 4 December of the same year, when the stele was erected at Jeongam in Uiryeong. The Hyangjesidorok gives a detailed account of the circumstances in which the stele and stele pavilion for the founding ancestor of the Uiryeong Yeo clan, erected at Jeongam in Uiryeong-eup, Uiryeong-gun, were installed, and of how the ancestral rites were conducted. It also contains records spanning a total of 136 years, from 1807 to 1943, making it an important source for understanding, within a historical continuum, the participation rates of regional clan associations in the rites, economic circumstances such as the expenses incurred and funds contributed, and the Uiryeong Yeo clan's practice of ancestor veneration (bongseon, 奉先). The Uiryeong Yeo Clan Sijojedan Altar Stele, erected beneath the cliff east of Jeongamjeong Pavilion by the Namgang River in Jeongam-ri, Uiryeong, is both the outcome of this Hyangjesidorok and a stele set up at the altar where annual ancestral rites have been held ever since. Erected in 1807, the text was composed by Kim Han-dong (金翰東) of Uiseong, who had served as Daesagan (Chief Royal Secretary for Remonstrance), and the calligraphy was done by Yi Ui-seon (李宜璿) of Hapcheon, a scholar who resided in Danseong.

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Where it is

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Uiryeong, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료