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Goyang regional cultural property
2017-03-28
Sadness about the death of only child at a young age .. Lee Gyuryeong’s gravestone
Designated number: Goyang City Regional Cultural Properties No. 45
Location: Mt. 42-4, Byeokje-dong, Deokyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do
It is not easy for the general public to access the monument of Lee Gyu-ryeong, the only son of Heewongun’s, located in the mountains of Beokje-dong in Dokyang-gu, Goyang City. The monument was built around 1666 by the father of Lee Gyu-ryeong and the grandson of the ancestor King, Heewongun.
The grieving inscription is difficult to find in other monuments, that Lee, Gyu-ryeung, his only son, died early at the age of 11 and that he was in a deep sorrow. The stone material is considered to be rare, Yangju Aeseok as a whole.
At the beginning of the inscription, it described the father 's sorrow about son’s death at a young age, and that he bought servants and rice fields with the son’s money, added by the exact date of sacrifice and items to use in the sacrifice, including pheasant's legs, watermelons, grapes, chestnuts, halibuts and abalones. In the last part, it ended asking the descendants and servants to continue such sacrifice traditions for his death, too.
The Lee Gyuryeong's gravestone inscription is an unusual stone inscription in Korea with a great historical value, which provide important clues about the property of the royal family, traditions, funerals and sacrifice foods at the time.
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