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ISSN : 1225-7060(Print)
ISSN : 2288-7148(Online)
Journal of The Korean Society of Food Culture Vol.40 No.1 pp.13-35
DOI : https://doi.org/10.7318/KJFC/2025.40.1.13

The Dietary Pattern of the Gentry Families of the 17th Century in the 「Hyeonpung Gwakssi Eongan」

Gyung Hee Cha*
Department of Korean cuisine, Jeonju university

Abstract

「Hyeonpung Gwakssi Eongan」 (A collection of Korean letters)is of 176 letters. Of 176 letters, 83 letters are about dietary which are 47.16% of the total letters. In 83 letters of dietary, there are records of rice, glutinous rice, barley and buckwheat, and also yeast, malt, flour, wheat bran. For poultry and meats, there are beef, raw & dried pheasant, chicken, quail and other birds. For fish and shellfish, there are sea fish such as cod, herring, croaker, flatfish, and freshwater fish such as crucian carp. For main dish, there are cooked rice, porridge, noodles and dumplings. For side dish, there are soup, grilled dish, nureumi, stir-fried dish, steamed dish, fermented fish, raw fish, jaban and chimchae. For rice cake, there are ancestral rites cake, sanseung, gyeongdan, ssookddeok. In「Hyeonpung Gwakssi Eongan」, Ju Gwak instructed food preparation, grocery shopping, recipe, guest-welcoming, housekeeping, making bed, transportation, curfew for his kids and clothing for his wife one by one. Furthermore, there are records of dietary lifestyle of spring season and the month of November in lunar calendar. Lastly, there are birthday ceremony, coming of age ceremony, wedding ceremony, funeral ceremony and ancestral rites ceremony according to Confucianism ideal and their food recipe.

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