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| Jagyeongjeon, located to the east of the
living quarters, was built for the Dowager
Jo, posthumously given the title of Queen
Sinjeong. She was the adoptive mother of
young King Gojong. Jagyeongjeon was built
when Gyeongbokgung was rebuilt by the Daewongun,
the ambitious father of King Gojong. The
building burned down soon after it was built
and the current structure was restored in
1888 (the 25th year of King Gojong). This
hall is composed of two rooms with Ondol
(heated) floors, Bogandang and Jagyeongjeon
and a veranda, Cheongyeonnu, to the southwest.
The east side of Cheongyeonnu is connected
with another room called Hyeopgyeongdang.
To the south of Jagyeongjeon Hall is a low
building, with Mansemun Gate in the middle.
Mansemun is a four-panel folding door designed
to be opened and closed easily by the women
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An animal statue in front of Jagyeongjeon.
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The gable eaves of Jagyeongjeon.
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The Jagyeongjeon wall decorated with
flower designs.
The western wall of
the dowager's residence was made of
colorful bricks, decorated with designs
of an apricot flower, a heavenly peach,
a peony, a hrysanthemum, a bamboo,
a butterfly and a lotus flower. |
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| Behind Jagyeongjeon, chimneys
are engraved with 10 signs of longevity
(sun, mountain, water, stone, cloud, pine,
herb of eternal life, turtle, crane and
deer), and designs of bats and arabesque
patterns, unlike Gyotaejeon, the queen's
living quarters, there are no flower terraces
in the vicinity of the chimneys. The western
wall was built with orange bricks to stress
the formality of the area ; found on the
inside wall are patterns of longevity in
Chinese characters, lattices, hexagons and
plum petals and on the outside wall are
colorful bricks decorated with an apricot
flower, heavenly peach, peony, chrysanthemum,
bamboo, butterfly and lotus. |
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