Designation

Gyeonggi-do Monument No. 30

Location

678, Gachae-ri, Sinbuk-myeon

Details

This shrine holds the ancestral rites for Sir Choi Ikhyeon who clarified the attitude to defend orthodoxy and reject heterodoxy to restore the declining national destiny as the leader of the Righteous Army as well as the politician and great Confucian scholar in the late Joseon period, and for Sir Yeomjae Choi Myeonsik, the patriot. Chaesansa was originally for Sir Myeonam Choi Ikhyeon. When Sir Myeonam died for the country on Daemado Island in 1906, the shrine was built by Confucian scholars to memorialize his patriotism. However, the shrine was destroyed by the Japanese army in 1920. It was restored in 1935, but again destroyed by the Japanese in 1943. It was restored in 1949 after liberation and the ancestral tablet and his portrait were also enshrined. It was rebuilt in 1975 because of dilapidation. In 1986, Pocheon Confucian scholars enshrined Sir Yeomjae Choi Myeonsik who devoted himself to the liberation of the country, with the ancestral tablet and his portrait. The ancestral rite in Chaesansa is held on Sep. 11 every year. The person on duty offers incense with sacred wine and jerky on the 1st and 15th day every month….

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