Abstract

According to a poem about Goryeo Hwagye tea production by Yi Gyubo titled 「Sending Tea In a Tribute to Son Han-jang 」, old and young people were forced by the government to engage in making tea, offering us a dark side of tea production. However, with recent studies on Goryeo and Joseon tribute tea, this poem s critical description of tea production is disclosed as attributable to Yi Gyu-bo s own personal feelings and heart of compassion. The series of process of producing and making Hwagye tea and sending it to the central government is found to have been a normal process of the government s making the tribute tea involving native people and the government together when tea sprouts came out.
 In addition, when Kim Jong-jik was posted as Hamyang county governor in Joseon, the tribute tea system had been put in place under which the tribute tea was produced and made in each tea production site and sent to the central government under the responsibilities of local governors. If local governments failed to secure tea production systems and passed the burden of tax collection to people, then the governor was criticized as not taking his responsibility. Thus, as shown in the poem 「Dawon isu byeongseo (茶園二首幷叙)」, this study saw that Hamyang s creation of tea gardens should be reinterpreted as a result of Kim Jong-jik s Confucian love of people and of his responsibilities for the government tribute tea as a local governor who had deep understanding of the tribute tea system. This study is hoped to further study Korea s tea history.

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