Jipyeong Hyanggyo Confucian School지평향교

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Jipyeong Hyanggyo Confucian School is one of three Joseon-era local educational institutions that represent Yangpyeong-gun. A document recording the history of the building (a ridge-beam inscription) was found in Myeongnyundang Hall, revealing that the school was founded in the early Joseon period and moved to its current location in 1684, the 10th year of King Sukjong's reign. The buildings follow the jeonhak-humyo layout, with the teaching area in front and the area for ancestral rites at the back. Myeongnyundang Hall at the front is where students gathered to study, and Dongjae and Seojae served as dormitories. At the back, Daeseongjeon Hall and the Dongmu and Seomu halls were where memorial tablets bearing the names of Chinese and Korean sages were enshrined and rites were held, though Dongmu and Seomu no longer remain today. The school no longer serves an educational role, but it carries on its tradition through ancestral rites. Because the name Yangpyeong came from the merger of Yanggeun-gun and Jipyeong-gun in 1908, Yangpyeong is home to two hyanggyo: Yanggeun Hyanggyo, located in the former Yanggeun-gun, and Jipyeong Hyanggyo, located in the former Jipyeong-gun.