삼척향교의 祭禮 石物에 관한 연구 - 省牲壇과 望燎石函을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Hyanggyo are government schools installed in provinces by the central government since the Goryeo Dynasty. The establishment of hyanggyo spread nationwide during the Joseon Dynasty and became the representative provincial educational institutes of the Joseon Dynasty, which wanted to run the nation under Confucian ideologies. There are 15 hyanggyo in Gangwon-do and only those in Chuncheon and Gangneung were built during the Goryeo Dynasty, while the dates of building other hyanggyo are unknown. The year that Samcheok Hyanggyo is unknown but it is estimated to have been constructed in the early Joseon Dynasty. The representative ritual ceremony stonework of Samcheok Hyanggyo to be examined in this paper are Seongsaengdan and Mangnyoseokham. Seongsaengdan is an altar for checking the health and fattiness of sacrifices to be used in the sacrificial ritual, and it was made in the shape of a turtle in a folk art style. The written funeral oration used in the ritual is burned once the ritual is complete, and the stonework for burning this piece of paper is called mangnyoseokham. Mangnyoseokham is made up of a stone case and two roof stones, and it is designed like a small house. Because of its high art history value and as it was made in 1956, it can be viewed as the standard piece of the time. Seongsaengdan is located between the dongjae and seojae, while mangnyoseokham is located west of the Daejseongjoen shrine. There is also the hamabi that was constructed together with mangnyoseokham and the gwansudae that is presumed to be in its original form. Samcheok Hyanggyo is the only hyanggyo that still has ritual stonework so fully intact in Gangwon-do. It is anticipated that this stonework will be actually used in rituals performed at the hyanggyo.