20세기 초의 식물민속지식 동의보감 초부 수록 식물을 중심으로

Abstract

This study compared the representative text, Dong‒uibogam(1613), written in the mid‒Joseon Dynasty with two modern texts, such as Wild Medical Plants From Joseon(1936) and Wild Edible Plants From Joseon(1942). Before then, it simply arranged the processes in which the folk knowledge of edible plants included in the Korean peninsula literature has been formed and introduced some data of Wild Medical Plants From Joseon and Wild Edible Plants From Joseon, which have not yet actively used in studies on folk plants. About 200 kinds of wild medical plants had been already recognized in the early 19th century, pre‒modern times, and then were re‒recognized with modernistic methodology by modern times and the resulting records of them have remained. The contrast of data shows that almost half of 212 kinds of plants collected in the Plants of Dong‒uibogam were recorded in Wild Medical Plants From Joseon, while about 30% of them were included in Wild Edible Plants From Joseon. It can be therefore found that among all of plants collected in the Plants of Dong‒uibogam, half of them and about 30% of them were used for medicine and for food, respectively. Half of 227 kinds of ‘essential plants’ in Wild Medical Plants From Joseon were classified as ‘Plants’ in Dong‒uibogam, in other words, half of plants used for medicine in modern times was ‘Plants’, indicating that the important of the Plants in Dong‒uibogam should be emphasized.