조선전기 官撰地理志로 본 楮,紙産地의 변화와 사찰 製紙

Abstract

Paper-manufacturing invented by Chae Ryun, who the later Han Dynasty China, was further developed in the Goryo period after being introduced in the Three Kingdoms period. The paper of Silla and Goryeo is that the best trade which China literati were best favorite. In Goryeo, the production offices and production area related to paper-manufacturing were existence and paper mulberry, raw materials of the manufacture of paper, to sufficient ensure were encouraged at the national level. This paper-manufacturing tradition was handed down toward Joseon Dynasty and a huge amount of paper were used for governmental offices in demand from early Joseon dynasty. Actually, a using-range of Joseon government for paper included governmental daily necessities, such as supplies in each office, printing of paper money,publishing of books, goods of mourning and funerals, and military goods and more importantly, goods for sadae-gyorin policy and civilian. By this reason, Joseon's government since the founding of dynasty spared institutional or political effort for needed raw materials for paper-manufacturing and for ensuring of the technic of paper-manufacturing. However, the expanding demand for paper showed a limit on the cultivation of paper-mulberry farming and production of papermanufacturing. So the government reorganized priorly gongnap system (tribute tax system) for ensuring huge amounts of paper. In addition,besides paper produced in governmental paper factories of Hanyang and provinces, government also tried to secure the produced paper in temple. The cause of paper shortage was also influenced by Munchi (political principle of rule centering civil officials) of some kings of the early Joseon Dynasty The Changes of the demand of expanded paper in early Joseon dynasty were confirmed through Gwanchan Jiriji (Geography of Eight Provinces Edited by Government), but the government was actively cope with these changing patterns and also had a steady attention toward ongoing temple paper-manufacturing. The government efforts showed highly possibility used as an expedient to expand a lack of paper supplier.