Yeongyeongchukseongbi
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The Yeongyeongchukseongbi (嶺營築城碑) is an inscribed stone stele at Manchon-dong, Suseong District, Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea. It commemorates the rebuilding in stone of the Daegu earthen fortress, which had been damaged during the Imjin War. It was designated Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 4 of Daegu Metropolitan City on 4 March 1982.
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Yeongyeongchukseongbi
Four gates were built, and storehouses were provided to hold military provisions, battle dress and other supplies for the defence of the fortress.
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The stele is rectangular and of simple form, with the stele body set upon a base stone. According to its inscription, the circuit of the wall measured 2,124 bu (步). Four gates were built, and storehouses were provided to hold military provisions, battle dress and other supplies for the defence of the fortress.
The inscription records that the stone wall took 6 months to build and that 78,534 people were mobilised. After the wall was completed, a number of warriors were gathered for an archery contest and were given rewards.
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The governor of Gyeongsang Province, Min Ung-su, petitioned the state for the work, and the stele was erected outside the south gate of Daegu in the 13th year of King Yeongjo (1737). Min Ung-su composed the text and Baek Sang-hwi wrote the calligraphy.
The fortress wall was demolished in the 10th year of Gwangmu (1906). The stele was moved to the Hyanggyo (local Confucian school) in 1932, where it was preserved, and in 1980 it was moved to its present site.
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A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument. In East Asia the inscribed stele was a major medium for recording history and law, and steles were made as grave markers, as government notices and boundary markers, and as memorials to battles.
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About this kind of monument
East Asian steles and standing stones
A stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument. Its surface often carries text, ornament, or both, inscribed, carved in relief or painted, and steles were made for many reasons: as grave markers, as government notices and boundary markers, and as memorials to battles. In East Asia the inscribed stele was a major medium for recording history and law, and the Atlas records those that have survived as monuments in Korea, China and Taiwan.
The Gwanggaeto Stele in Ji'an, Jilin Province, China, is the best known. It is a memorial for the tomb of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo, erected in 414 by his son Jangsu, and is the largest engraved stele in the world. It is carved out of a single mass of granite, stands about 6.39 metres tall with a girth of nearly four metres, and has an inscription written exclusively in Classical Chinese. It is one of the major primary sources for the history of Goguryeo. The stele stands near the tomb on the Yalu River, in what was then the capital of the kingdom.
A stele with an inscription that names a reign is among the best-dated monuments in the Atlas. Uninscribed standing stones in Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia, which the Atlas also lists under this heading, cannot be dated closely.
When visiting, look at the inscription if there is one, and at the base that holds the stone.
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Dated moments in the story
- 1737
임진왜란 때 허물어진 대구토성을 돌로 다시 쌓은 후 이를 기념하고자 세운 비이다. 비는 직사각형으로, 바닥돌 위에 비몸을 세운 간단한 모습이다. 비문에 의하면 성의 둘레는 2,124보(步)이며, 네 개의 문을 만들고 성을 지키기 위한 군량, 전포 등을 갖춘 창고를 두었다. 석성의 공사기간은 6개월이며, 동원된 인원은 78,534명에 달한다. 성이 완성된 뒤에는 여러 장사들을 모아 활쏘기대회를 열어 상을 주었다 한다. 경상도 관찰사였던 민응수가 나라에 건의하여 영조 13년(1737) 대구 남문 밖에 세워두었으며, 민응수가 비문을 짓고, 백상휘가 글씨를 썼다....
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- 35°52′31″ N, 128°39′30″ EFor a GPS or map app: 35.87528, 128.65833
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