Historic Site Related to Jeong Yak-yong, Gangjin

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.107

Category

Architecture

Era

조선시대

Designated year

1963

Location

강진군, 전라남도— 전남 강진군 도암면 만덕리 산103-2번지

Coordinates

34.580487, 126.745287

Jeong Yak-yong, a famous realist of the late Joseon Dynasty (1762-1836), was exiled here. For the eleven years here, he wrote lots of books. Dasan, which is his pen name, established his political and scholarly achievements as a favorite of King Jeongjo but was banished for eighteen years due to his faith, Catholicism. He wrote about 500 books including Mongmin simseo (Admonitions on Governing the People), Gyeongse yupyo (Design for Good Government), and Heumheum simseo (Toward a New Jurisprudence). Yeoyudang jeonseo (A collection of Jeong’s literary works), which puts together all his works, presents the academic direction concerning philosophy, laws, religion, medicine, musical art, astronomic phenomena, measurement, and architecture. It contributed academic establishment as a worldwide research material. For the old cottage broken down, the association for keeping the Dasan relics took the initiative in rebuilding the thatched cottage in an old site. The little and simple house toward the south has a tablet marked “Dasan Chodang (Thatched Cottage on a Tea Mountain)” hanging. He inscribed "Jeongseok (丁石)" on a rock over the hill from the back of the house. There is also a small pond located on the left side of the house; in the front yard is pure stone to make tea, which gives us a glimpse of what his life in exile was like.

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