Silla Hwangnyongsa Temple and Bukwi Yeongnyeongsa Temple

 1. Hwangnyongsa Temple, which began to be built before Silla unified the three kingdoms from the research of Japanese scholars, unifies the three kingdoms 30 years after the construction of the Hwangnyong Four-story Wooden Pagoda. Although the philosophy contained in the wooden pagoda did not subjugate the nine countries around Silla, the function of the wooden pagoda seems to have been sufficiently completed considering that Baekje and Goguryeo were destroyed, even the Tang Dynasty was driven out of the Korean Peninsula. As such, Hwangnyongsa Temple is such a well-known temple, and in the 1930s, a Japanese scholar Fujishima published a plan for the restoration of Hwangnyongsa Temple for the first time in the Journal of the Japanese Society of Architecture. In other words, we experienced the irony that Hwangnyongsa Temple was first restored by the Japanese. Hwangnyongsa Temple is the largest temple in the East, and its precincts are eight times the area of Bulguksa Temple (30,000 pyeong), the largest temple site in Gyeongju, and is built six times the size of Namdaemun in Seoul.   There were two of the three treasures of Silla, Jangyukjonsang and a nine-story wooden pagoda, and it is the grand pavilion of Silla Hoguk Buddhism, where the kings of Silla went out and listened to lectures by over 100 high monks. Because of this importance, it was also the part that I spent the most time working on Wanggyeong Restoration for four months. The Garam layout of Hwangnyongsa Temple was a unique style of the one-top three-gold-dang style with east-west corridors, with east-west gates, towers, and left and right sides of Junggeumdang from the south. The scale confirmed through excavation investigation is about 270 meters east-west (length of the Namhwarang including the Jungmun Gate) and about 110 meters north-south.  

2. Adopted Hwangnyongsa Temple, which boasted the largest architectural scale lost due to arson during the Mongol invasion in 1238, Hwangnyongsa Temple's ancient architectural research achievements and archaeological evidence through excavation are so it is difficult to distinguish between reality and virtual reality.  Among the various proposals for restoring the Hwangnyongsa Wooden Pagoda, Kim Dong-hyun Ahn, recognized by academia, was adopted.     Since only the foundation stone remained at the time of construction and had to be restored without any substance, the thesis on the structure of Hwangnyongsa Temple presented by historians and ancient architecture experts became the basic data, and conclusively, the restoration of the Hwangnyongsa Temple Wood Tower was used as the biggest data. As for the arrangement of the garam at Hwangnyongsa Temple, Dr. Fujishima's restoration drawings have been used without resistance before the recent excavation data were released.   However, after Dr. Fujishima, the restoration of the Hwangnyongsa Four-story Wooden Pagoda was raised in various forms, so it was not possible to work one by one according to the restoration of scholars who presented different opinions.   Currently, it is recognized as a well-established theory in academia, and Kim Dong-hyun's Hwangnyongsa Restoration Plan, which comprehensively systematized the restoration plan, was adopted and used as it is for the digital restoration of Hwangnyongsa Temple.     

3. Based on the drawings in the excavation report of Hwangnyongsa Temple, traces of foundation stones and stylobates were found and recorded at the site of Hwangnyongsa Temple. Although he drew a video restoration map of the entire Garam, focusing on the traces of the investigated plane and the existing stone remains, he conclusively followed Kim Dong-hyun's plan to restore Hwangnyongsa Temple. The total area of Hwangnyongsa Temple is 255 pyeong, which has a market share of about 3%. The wooden tower has four sides and a square shape with a side of 22.2m and a square shape. As a result of the excavation, it was found that 8 ?8 = 64 foundations were placed, and a huge foundation stone was placed in the center. The nine-story wooden pagoda of Hwangnyongsa Temple has 64 pillars, reaches 80 meters in height alone, and is about 30 stories high. Looking at the high-rise buildings that are currently comparable in Seoul, it was found that the main building of Samsung Group in the city hall almost matched the height of the Hwangryong Wood Tower. The Hwangnyongsa Four-story Wooden Pagoda was the second-highest wooden structure in the East. The largest right in Eastern history is the Sangjeong Restoration of the Yeongnyeong Four-story Wooden Pagoda in Nakyang, Bukwi. On the left is the Hwangnyongsa Four-story Wooden Pagoda, both of which are 134m and 80m high, respectively, in the form of a nine-story wooden pagoda. The Yeongnyeongsa Wooden Pagoda is the world's best wooden pagoda that was destroyed by fire in the second year of Yeonghee (534 AD). Below is a separate floor plan.  The wooden pagoda is the Yeongnyeong Four-story Wooden Pagoda built during the Northern Wei period. The number of floors is the same as the Hwangnyongsa Wooden Pagoda, but Hwangnyongsa Temple has seven bays, while Yeongnyeongsa Temple has nine bays on one side. The addition of two more bays from the 7 bays of Hwangnyongsa Temple means that the tower rises widely from the 1st floor as much as the 2 bays wide, so as a result, the 9 bays inevitably increase the height of the wooden tower compared to the 7 bays. In conclusion, Yeongnyeongsa Wooden Pagoda (134m) is 52m higher than Hwangnyongsa Temple (82m). It is a wooden pagoda representing the ancient times of China and Korea, and is a great contrast, respectively. It can be inferred from the fact that it was supposed to be. This poem depicts and highlights the meaning of the nine-story pagoda as if it were written after climbing on a nine-story pagoda. Hyesim had visited Hwangnyongsa Temple before it was burned down by the Mongolian army, and considering this, it is easy to guess that he actually climbed to the top of the nine-story pagoda. Through these literature sources, the Hwangnyongsa Four-story Wooden Pagoda consists of a structure where you can climb stairs up to the ninth floor and see all directions.    In conclusion, Hwangnyongsa Temple was a landmark element of the Silla Dynasty, and the Hwangnyongsa Four-story Wooden Pagoda was a symbol of Seorabeol in Silla Province. If you compare it to Seoul today, it is Namsan Tower that stands out as soon as you enter Seoul for the first time. Namsan Tower is the tallest building in the royal landscape of Korea called Seoul. The Hwangnyong Four-story Wooden Pagoda was in charge of the same function. If you were the first person to step on Seorabeol in the past, it would have been natural to feel the enormous majesty of the 82-meter-high Hwangnyong Wooden Pagoda and feel awe at Seorabeol, a city in the Bulguk Land. The reason why more careful attention was required to restore Hwangnyongsa Temple was that the proportion of Hwangnyongsa Temple occupied by the Silla Kingdom was this important.