Six New Gyeonggi Cultural Properties Designated, Including 'Anseong Chiljangsa Wontongjeon'

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Six items, including the Joseon Dynasty Buddhist hall 'Anseong Chiljangsa Wontongjeon,' have been newly designated as cultural properties of Gyeonggi Province.

Gyeonggi Province recently held a meeting of the Gyeonggi Cultural Heritage Committee and announced on the 5th that six items, including Chiljangsa Wontongjeon, the portrait and box set of Yun Seung-gil, Yongin Bumo Eunjoonggyeong, Yangpyeong Sangwonsa Bronze Bell, Lotus Sutra Volumes 1-7, and Yongin Lotus Sutra Volumes 5-7, were designated as cultural properties.

Anseong Chiljangsa Wontongjeon is a Buddhist hall from the Joseon Dynasty, a form rarely remaining in Gyeonggi Province. Its interior space is constructed with half-ceilings (flat ceilings in rooms or floors), and each section features various dancheong (traditional multicolored decorative patterns), recognizing its cultural heritage value.

The portrait and box set of Yun Seung-gil, who was honored as an "Iksa Gongshin" (meritorious subject for suppressing the Imhaegun rebellion) by King Gwanghaegun in 1612, is a rare surviving item despite most Iksa Gongshin being stripped of their titles after the Injo Restoration.

Yongin Bumo Eunjoonggyeong (a Buddhist scripture teaching filial piety to parents) was published in 1591 (the 24th year of King Seonjo) based on a royal edition (Myeongbin Kim clan edition).

It is a woodblock print before the Imjin War and was printed at Hwaeomgul in Gwanggyosan, Yongin, making it a rare surviving edition of Bumo Eunjoonggyeong, highly valued for this reason.

The Yangpyeong Sangwonsa Bronze Bell, estimated to have been made in the early Goryeo period (11th-12th century), is a temple bell showing a hybrid style of Korean and Japanese influences.

The manufacturing method suggests exchanges and influences between Korean artisans and Japan.

The privately owned Lotus Sutra Volumes 1-7 is a complete edition including the original woodblocks, known to be a printed version of the 16th-17th century Buddhist scripture Lotus Sutra.

Two types of Biansangdo (visual representations of Buddhist scripture content) remain, making it valuable for historical, academic, and Buddhist art fields, according to Gyeonggi Province.

Yongin Lotus Sutra Volumes 5-7, consisting of three volumes in one book, is not a complete edition but was printed at Seobongsa Temple in Yongin, where few editions currently exist, thus recognized for its cultural property designation value.

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