고려시대의 차[茶]와 다방(茶房)

Abstract

The tea office(茶房) is the government office that was in charge of making tea and herbal medicine used in the court. It was managed the tea for the banquet of foreign envoys and officials and the liquor and fruit for the royal family. It is not known when the tea office was installed, but it was already in existence in 1047. There was no tea office in “GoRyeoSa” ‘Servants’. It was installed based on the example of the Song`s DoChaBang(都茶房) but the operation was different. It was the responsibility of the official, not the eunuch. The medical functions of the tea office were well illustrated in “SinJipEoUiChwalYoBangSeo” written by Lee GyuBo(李奎報). According to the preface, that copy of it was a copy of a prescription collected from the tea office. There was already a tea room in a coffee shop, and although it was simple, it was used in the royal court of Goryeo and was very effective. So I chose some of the prescriptions that I thought were important to people, and made them into two volumes. There are the Royal Medical Organization, TaeUiGam(太醫監) and SangYakGuk(尙藥局), why did the tea office have the prescription and used it? The answer is in the word “Tea”. In Goryeo, tea was named for every beverage that was boiled like tea even without tea, and the tea office was used to make tea. Tea from the tea office was not just a drink, but a medicine for the health of the body or for the relief of simple physical discomfort. However, it was not for medical purposes and had a pharmacology effect as a permanent beverage. Therefore, there were prescription books in the tea office, and medical offices were placed. Based on this, Choi JongJun(崔宗峻) was able to compile “EoUiChwalYo”.