'Joseon Dynasty's Time Capsule' returns home

Ijaenango, 'Joseon Dynasty's Time Capsule' returns to Gochang county
Heritage / 연합뉴스  / 2021-04-30 16:14:52

Ijaenango, ′Joseon Dynasty′s Time Capsule′ returns to Gochang county

GOCHANG, South Korea, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Ijaenango (頤齋亂藁), a masterpiece of Hwang Yun-seok (黃胤錫, 1729-1791) who retained his life records during the Joseon Dynasty, has returned to Gochang County in North Jeolla Province. 

고창에 기증된 이재유고 목판. 왼쪽은 이재 8대손 황병무 전 국방대학원 교수, 한 사람 건너 유기상 고창군수. 유 군수는 이재난고 연구로 전북대 사학과서 박사학위를 취득했다.

Gochang County announced on the 30th that Hwang Byung-moo, the eight descendant of Hwang Yun-seok, donated 58 books of Ijaenango and 100 woodblocks of Ijaeyugo have been deposited at the Jeonju National Museum of Korea before returning to Gochang county.

Ijaenango, which holds historical value, was designated as Jeonbuk Tangible Cultural Heritage No.111 in 1984.

고창군에 기탁한 이재난고. 목판은 기증이고 난고는 기탁이다.

Hwang Yun-seok is known as a great scholar from Gochang, North Jeolla Province, and is famous for his great achievements in astronomy, epidemiology, history, mathematics, linguistics, geography, art, music, and religion.

Ijaenango is a diary that was written by Hwang Yun-seok for 53 years, starting from the age of 10 to the age of 63.

Among the existing diaries of Joseon, the Ijaenango is the largest in size and the content covers various fields, which therefore hold great historical value.

기탁된 이재난고

The Mayor of Gochang county, Yoo Ki-sang, said, "Hwang Yun-seok's descendants have made a big decision to donate the Ijaenango and Ijaeyugo to the Gochang county, which will become a benefit to our society."

"We will do our best to promote the Ijaenango, one of Korea' representative cultural heritage and a repository of cultural contents during the Joseon Dynasty, to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage," he added.

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황윤석의 이재난고가 고향 고창으로 귀환했다.

나는 이를 문화상품으로 본다.