Byeongsan Seowon Confucian Academy, Andong

Basic information

Designation

Historic Site No.260

Category

Architecture

Era

조선 선조 5년(1572)

Designated year

1978

Location

안동시, 경상북도— 경북 안동시 풍천면 병산리 30번지

Coordinates

36.540580, 128.552605

Byeongsanseowon, a Confucian academy, was built to commemorate Yu Seong-ryong, his life and studies. Yu Seong-ryong was not only famous for his academic standards in Confucianism, writing and calligraphy, and for his virtue, but he also made great contributions during the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592 by supporting the war through such means as building fortress walls and making firearms. This place was originally Pungakseodang Village School, an educational institution of the Pungsan Yu Clan. Yu Seong-ryong moved here in the fifth year of the reign of King Seonjo (1572). Later, in the sixth year of King Gwanghaegun’s reign (1614), Jondeoksa Shrine was built to hold his mortuary tablets and in 1629, the tablet of his third son, Yu Jin was added. Pungakseodang was given the name 'Byeongsan' by King Cheoljong in 1863 and thence became a Confucian academy. Inside the academy, there are Jondeoksa Shrine, Ipgyodang Lecture Hall, Jangpangak, where the relics are preserved, and the Dongjae and Seojae, which were the living quarters, Sinmun Gate, Jeonsacheong (a storehouse for ceremonial objects), Mandaeru Pavilion, and Gojiksa (caretakers’ quarters). It is one of the 47 Confucian academies that outlived Daewongun’s 1868 movement to abolish them.

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