唐代 접경공간의 內外구분과 법률상의 제도화 -邊州를 중심으로

Abstract

In this paper, we pointed out the characteristics, structure and legal institutionalization of contact zones in the Tang Dynasty whose existing research was insufficient compared to the importance of research. In particular, it tracked related historica lmaterials, which allowed them to look into household registered population and military personnel, institutional devices and legalization of frontier prefectures, and further to track the differences between the frontier prefectures and the Different countries (or the loose-rein prefectures (羈縻州, jimizhou). In addition, the laws of Tang Dynasty clarifying how this particular frontier prefectures was defined and stipulated, and intended to provide a rough outline of the frontier prefectures space during the Emperor Xuanzong’s reign. The Tang Dynasty is considered to have had the most active interaction with its neighboring countries compared to any other dynasties in China. However, having had this openness does not mean that there were no contact zones separating it from its neighboring countries. The frontier prefectures, which served as the Tang Dynasty’s contact zones, differed from the jimi prefectures, which were indirectly involved with the local ethnic peoples in the early Tang Dynasty, and they also differed from the regular prefectures (正州, zhengzhou). These contact zones were a space where military bases and military facilities such as the Great Wall (長城, Changcheng), border forts and frontier junctures (關塞, guansai), garrison towns (軍, jun), defense detachments (守捉, shouzhuo), garrison stations (鎭, zhen), vacant lands (空閑地, kongxiandi), beacon towers (烽燧, fengsui), and wooden palisades (木柵, muzha) intertwined like cobwebs. At the same time, these contact zones served a space where ordinary people’s daily lives unfolded. In particular, the Tang Empire placed the ethnic peoples who migrated to China in such frontier prefectures and allowed them to live with the Han people. Because the Tang Empire tolerated their identities (古俗, gusu), various ethnicities resided together in these contact zones, mixing cultures and lifestyles and combining the agrarianism of the Han people with the pastoralism and forestry of the non-Han people.