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Permanent Exhibition

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We seek topics that can meet the socio-cultural demands of Confucian culture, make efforts to reflect the latest research results, and become a “pathway to Confucian cultural heritage” to help visitors become active participants.

In addition, by implementing the vision of “globalization, modernization, popularization, convergence, empathy with generations,” we will reinterpret Korea's Confucian culture, starting with the Confucian cultural heritage of Chungcheong-do, to become "bridge to communicate with the public" through new spiritual and cultural content for the future.

The permanent exhibition consists of three parts, divided into Confucian-related figures, books, and crafts. The collections of donated and deposited artifacts are displayed, and with each sub-theme, the three parts define “Seonbi,” look back on “Ye,” and present “traditional life” by regularly replacing artifacts.

 

Part 1. about seonbi

Part 2. Look Back on Ye (禮, Ritual Systems)

Part 3. Touch Our Life

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  • Part 1. About Seonbi

    Part 1. About Seonbi

    Seonbi were scholars, bureaucrats, village leaders and educators. They became generals of the Righteous Army in times of national crisis, and armed fighters when they lost the country. Seonbi who did not become bureaucrats led local education, and those who retired from politics returned to their villages to study writings of the sages and devoted themselves to learning. They were frugal but not shabby, glamorous but not extravagant, and feared the collapse of beliefs rather than death. Those who embody the Confucian ideology through the practice of “self-control” and “public good” are called “seonbi,” and they are already a cultural heritage representing Korean culture. In this exhibition corner, we would like to honor seonbi, through the records of Confucian scholars.

  • Part 2. Look Back on Ye (禮, Ritual Systems)

    Part 2. Look Back on Ye (禮, Ritual Systems)

    Yehak (禮學) is the study of various Confucian practices (禮制, ritual systems), and Yeseo (禮書) are books related to Yehak. In general, Yeseo books are divided into various categories such as Bangrye (邦禮) books (books about national rituals), Gorye (古禮) books for Gyeongseo (Confucian classics about ancient Chinese rites), Garye (家禮) books for Saseoin (books related to family rites of high officials and populaces), Hakgyore (學校禮) books of Hyanggyo (local Confucian schools) rites, Hyangsarye (鄕射禮: community archery rites) for, and Hyangeumjurye (鄕飮酒禮, drinking etiquette) books. Yeseo books, along with literary collections, account for a major part of the Joseon Dynasty's publications, and Garye (related to capping, wedding, funeral, and ancestral rites) books have the highest proportion. In this exhibition corner, we would like to look back on the Confucian concept of Ye, necessary for modern society through the understanding of Yeseo, which is the essence of Chungcheong Confucianism.

  • Part 3. Touch Our Life

    Part 3. Touch Our Life

    Our lives are filled with objects. Touch traditional life through everyday items from gat (Korean traditional hat) to shoes, moon jar to soban (small portable dining table), gobi (letter rack) to seoan (writing table), piri (pipe) to geomungo (Korean musical instrument with six strings). Crafts made by master craftsmen, our national intangible cultural assets across the country naturally show the daily lives of Confucian culture by melting the past into the present. In this exhibition corner, we would like to share and connect everyday Confucian culture with our current eyes through objects.