In Seoul, there are five gigantic royal tombs: Jeongneung, Seonneung(also known as Seonjeongneung), Heonilleung, Taegangneung, Uireung. Among these tombs, I would like to introduce, Jeongneung, the first royal tomb from Joseon Dynasty.
Jeongneung is the tomb of the first queen of Joseon Dynasty, Sindeok(lawful second wife of the first king of Joseon Dynasty, King Taejo).
Since she was the second wife, King Taejo's heir(fifth son of King Taejo's first wife who died before Taejo became a king), King Taejong treated it coldly and even separately buried his father, King Taejo against King Taejo's last will(burying him next to his dead second wife Sindeok). And King Taejong moved the tomb of Queen Sindeok to Yangju(楊州), Saeulhallok(沙乙閑麓), the current place of the Jeongneung.
Then King Taejong put the ancestral tablet of Queen Sinui with that of King Taejo in the ancestral shrine of the royal family and treated his dead mom as his dead father's only lawful wife (demoting queen Sindeok to a royal concubine).
Unable to be placed in the ancestral shrine of the royal family, Jeongneung was left as a nameless tomb for several hundred years. However, in 1669, King Hyeonjong in his 10th year restored Jeongneung for the first time in 260 years.
On the first day when Queen Sindeok was placed in the ancestral shrine of the royal family with her recovered title of Queen, the rain poured down in the entire area of the Jeongneung.
This rain was called the Sewonjiu (洗寃之雨, a rain to ease Queen’s ill feeling).
-images of Jeongneung
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