When you enter Honghwamun, the main gate of Changgyeonggung Palace, Okryucheon Stream flows and Okcheongyo Bridge hangs over. When you cross the bridge and enter Myeongjeongmun, you will see Myeongjeongjeon, the main hall of the palace, and Munjeongjeon to the left of Myeongjeongjeon.
The building with a gable roof on the left is Munjeongjeon.
If Myeongjeongjeon is the main hall where official events such as meetings are held, Munjeongjeon is the main hall where government affairs are usually held with the subjects. In Gyeongbokgung Palace, the main hall is Geunjeongjeon and the side hall is Sajeongjeon.
When Changgyeonggung Palace was damaged by the Japanese, it was demolished and rebuilt in 1986.
There is no other decoration other than the Sun, Moon and Five Peaks banner behind the king’s seat. When the king comes to Changgyeonggung Palace, this is the space where royal meetings are held. This is the place where the Samjeongseung Yukpanseo sat in meetings and the officers recorded them one by one. During the Joseon Dynasty, kings moved from palace to palace. I think it might have something to do with Yin-Yang and the Five Elements.
In 1762, the year of Crown Prince Sado’s tragedy, King Yeongjo was in residence at Changdeokgung Palace. Therefore, there was no need to use Munjeongjeon at Changgyeonggung Palace as a space for government affairs, so the memorial tablet of the first queen, Queen Jeongseong, who died five years ago, was placed there, and it was named Hwiryeongjeon (徽寧殿) and used as the Honjeon (魂殿). Binjeon (殯殿) is a place where the royal palace (梓宮), or coffin, of a king or queen is kept, and Honjeon (魂殿) is a hall where the soul or memorial tablet is kept after a funeral. A mortuary is a private mortuary. In the author’s hometown, after a funeral, a place is called a mortuary where the soul is buried with a veil and a memorial service is held in the morning and evening until the three-year mourning period. It is called a mortuary in the Seoul area. If you visit, it is said that it is a mortuary only until it is buried.
Since Queen Jeong Jeong was her queen, she should be buried at Jongmyo after three years of mourning. The reason she had a memorial tablet in Munjeongjeon was because she could not enter Jongmyo before her husband Yeongjo. It may seem strange these days, but in the old days people thought it was impolite for a wife to precede her husband. Therefore, Queen Jeongseong’s spirit was waiting in Munjeongjeon for the day when she would enter Jongmyo Shrine along with her husband King Yeongjo. Although the story goes sideways, the tomb of this Queen Jeongseong (貞聖王后) Seo clan is Hongneung (弘陵) inside Seooreung. (The Chinese characters are different from Hongneung (洪陵) outside Cheongnyangni.)
However, the burial mound is not centered but toward the left, and the right side is empty. Originally, when King Yeongjo used the tomb of Queen Jeongseong, he left the right side of the photo above blank with the intention of entering it after his death. However, after King Yeongjo’s death, he used the tomb in Wonreung (元陵) within Donggureung tomb, and his second wife, Queen Jeongsun, placed it next to it. I went in and lay down. No matter how much a king dies, once he dies, nothing happens as he wants. During the Joseon Dynasty, when there was a first wife and a second wife, the kings usually wanted to go first to the first wife after death, but this did not work out. Later, the wives and in-laws came out to interfere.
I once read an article explaining that the reason King Yeongjo could not go even after preparing a seat next to Queen Jeongseong was because King Jeongjo was grumpy. Grandson, what does it matter which grandmother the grandfather goes to? King Jeongjo must have given the final approval on where to use the tomb of King Yeongjo, but the reason for doing so must be found in connection with his second wife, Queen Jeongsun. Of course, Queen Jeongsun would never have said that she could not bear to see her husband go next to his wife first, so you should read her information carefully. The story went sideways too much, so I’ll turn it to Munjeongjeon.
May 13, 1762
King Yeongjo came to Changgyeonggung Palace to see the remains of Queen Jeongseong and called Crown Prince Sado. However, the Crown Prince appears late and King Yeongjo becomes angry and orders him to commit suicide with his sword. By shortening the explanation like this, it seems as if he was telling his son to die just because he came a little late, but that is not the case. King Yeongjo must have decided to settle the crown prince issue on this day.
Annals of the Year 1762 (Imo, 38th year of King Yeongjo’s reign) May 13th
… The king ordered the crown prince to bow down to the ground, take off his robe, and bow his head to the ground with his bare feet.
They urged him to take down the mission and commit suicide… . The unbearable thing to hear about war is to commit suicide with a knife.
….The king raised his sword and issued a series of unbearable messages urging Donggung to commit suicide. The crown prince wanted to commit suicide, but many of Chunbang’s subjects stopped him. The king then issued an order to dethrone him and make him a Seoin.
… The Crown Prince went back in weeping, bowed down on the ground, begged, and asked for reform and good fortune. The king’s mission became more stringent, and he roughly stated what Yeongbin had told him. Yeongbin was the crown prince’s birth mother, Lee, and the one who had informed the king. Dao Seungji Lee Yi-jang said, “Your Majesty, are you trying to shake the foundation of the nation because of the words of a woman deep in the palace?” The king became angry and ordered that the punishment be carried out quickly. The command was stopped. Finally, he ordered the crown prince to be deeply locked up, and the crown prince came in hurriedly. The king ordered to send the royal family, the royal descendants, and several royal descendants to the house of Left Chief Justice Hong Bong-han, but at this time, half of the night was already over. The king issued a mission statement to the outside world, but the historians were reluctant to use the mission statement and did not dare to use it.
When his subjects tried to dissuade him, King Yeongjo had the crown prince locked in the wooden box(duju in korean).
Annals of the Year 1762 (Imo, 38th year of King Yeongjo’s reign) May 13th
Depose the Crown Prince, make him a Seoin, and lock him up tightly inside.
(廢世子爲庶人, self-internal order)
Crown Prince Sado entered Wooden box at his father’s command in the yard shown in the photo.
It may not be the week immediately after Crown Prince Sado entered, but it will be roughly similar. When I went to Duju, it wasn’t just May, it was May 13th, so it would have been a hot summer day around July in the solar calendar. In such weather, Crown Prince Sado spends eight days in the duju.
Seoninmun (宣仁門)
About 70 meters away from Honghwamun (弘化門), the main gate of Changgyeonggung Palace, in the southern direction of Wonnam-dong, there is a small gate called Seoninmun (宣仁門).
After Crown Prince Sado enters, the juju is moved from Munjeongjeon to inside Seoninmun Gate. Crown Prince Sado spent eight days in the middle of May in the space shown in that photo under the hot weather of July according to the solar calendar.
Im O’s Incident (壬午禍change)
Eight days later, on the 21st of May, Crown Prince Sado passed away in his chest, and from then on, this incident is called the Imohwabyeon, according to the zodiac sign of the year in which it occurred.
When Crown Prince Sado passed away, King Yeongjo restored his title.
Annals of King Yeongjo’s reign (1762), May 21st
Crown Prince Sado wrote a letter. May you go to school,
“,,,How can you not think about the close 30 years of benevolence between father and son? Considering the feelings of his descendants and considering the will of the great minister, he simply restored the title and also gave him the posthumous title Crown Prince Sado. Afterwards
Crown Prince Sado’s ‘Tao’ is the Tao of mourning, and according to poetry, it means ‘he died early before middle age.’ Later, in 1776, the year of his accession to the throne, King Jeongjo was given the honorific title of Jangheon (莊獻).
gold lantern
Annals of King Jeongjo’s reign (1793) August 8
strategy ..
One of the words in the golden lamp comes from love for children and the other comes from extreme filial piety. What kind of virtue is this? It was something that could not be brought up simply because it was something that was not dared to be said, and was left buried and not revealed in the future, but now, thanks to the appeal of the previous video, the clue has been revealed… Omitted… .
He showed several ministers a note copying the two verses from the golden lantern and said, “Blood-stained red ginseng, bloody red ginseng, copper, copper, who will guard it with a golden lantern for eternity? “I hope and hope that you will return to my arms in the spring and autumn.”
This is the famous golden lantern phrase, from ‘Blood-stained red ginseng’ to ‘I hope’, which is what King Yeongjo said. It is said these days that Crown Prince Sado’s death is proof that King Yeongjo was deceived by Kim Sang-ro’s scheme, but there is a leap, and the author does not agree. What kind of person is Yeongjo, and who is he fooling? Also, if he knew he was deceived, wouldn’t King Yeongjo have punished (Noron) himself? What should he do by complaining to his younger son that his opponent is too strong for him? The basic position explaining the contents written by King Yeongjo and Lady Hyegyeong Hong in Hanjungnok and the death of Im Ohwabyeon and Crown Prince Sado is the theory of both poetry and the theory of duality.
Isn’t that inevitable? King Yeongjo was worried about the living crown prince, but there was no reason to push him further after his death, and he needed to restore his honor to some extent for the future of his descendants. Princess Hyegyeong could not criticize her father-in-law, her father-in-law, or her own family, Noron. The only thing that Queen Hyegyeong resented at Hanjungnok was the powerless court ladies. As a result, at the Gwangju hearing, no one fired a gun, but there were a lot of dead people, and no one did anything, but it was vaguely said that the crown prince was trapped in the back and died. Palace Hyegyeong, King Yeongjo, and Noron all involved hid the truth little by little.
