Goesan Song Si-yeol Historic Site

The Cheongcheon Uam Song Si-yeol Historic Site consists of relics related to Song Si-yeol, centered around the Hwayang Seowon Site and Mandongmyo Site located in Hwayangdong Valley, including Amseojae, Eupgungam, Aegaksajeok, his tomb, and the tombstone. Hwayang Seowon was a Confucian academy built where Uam Song Si-yeol retired, serving as a gathering place for scholars during the Joseon Dynasty. Mandongmyo is a shrine well-preserved that enshrines the spirit tablets of Chinese Ming Dynasty emperors Shenzong and Yizong, who sent reinforcements to Joseon during the Imjin War. Amseojae is known as the place where Song Si-yeol taught his disciples in his later years while living in seclusion in Hwayangdong. Eupgungam is said to be where he climbed and wept on the anniversary of King Hyojong's death after the Northern Expedition was thwarted by his passing. Additionally, many Aegaksajeok such as Chunghyojirui and Biryebudong are scattered throughout Hwayangdong, well illustrating the nature of the relics imbued with Song Si-yeol's patriotic Northern Expedition ideology and national self-respect spirit, as well as the appearance of the site as a center of Joseon Neo-Confucianism that was thoroughly destroyed and distorted by the Japanese colonial rule.