• 인삼문화
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• 제1권
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• pp.57-66
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• 2019

Ginseng has been recognized as a lifespan extending medicine which has been regarded as one of the medicines classified as top medicines, as the Boncho (medical herbs) study which is influenced by the idea of guidance's costume and food concept mainly in China is gaining its bona fide form. As the demand for ginseng has been expanded to other levels, the demand for ginseng has been increasing. Ginseng from the nature reached its supply chain limit due to its extinction and difficulty of picking, so it translated into ginseng cultivation of economy rather than harvesting in nature. After the start of ginseng cultivation, the ginseng cultivation was further enhanced by the rapid development of processing methods such as white-ginseng and red-ginseng, and the surge of consumption due to the traditional belief in ginseng drug efficacy and support of scientific research. In the Joseon Dynasty, the name Gasam (cultivated ginseng) had been created as ginseng was cultivated on farmland after the stage of SanYang (wild cultivated ginseng), the purpose of the new name Gasam is to differentiate from natural ginseng, and natural ginseng lost its firm position as the genuine ginseng as the Gasam replaced the genuine ginseng, and the natural ginseng got a new name of SanSam (wild ginseng). Because the real ginseng substance concept dissipated, and as Gasam is being called ginseng, the name Gasam was also disappeared. As a result, it was possible to grow large quantities according to the arrival of the Gasam era, and it was possible to supply the demand for ginseng, and it could become one agricultural industry. In this ginseng cultivation, in Japan where ginseng did not grow naturally, it was difficult to obtain ginseng from Joseon and faced with a shortage of ginseng at all times. Therefore, the shogun cultivated the Gasam systematically at the national level by the inside of the shogunate. However, since the natural ginseng is native to China and Korea, there is a concern about the deterioration of the quality of natural ginseng due to the incorporation of cultivated ginseng (Gasam). To protect the interests, the cultivation of ginseng was subject to control. For this reason, the lack of historical information on Gasam cultivation, which had to be started secretly, would be a natural result. In this paper, althouh not sufficient enough, the historical informations were used to summarize the history of ginseng cultivation in China, Japan and Korea.

• 인삼문화
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• 제2권
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• pp.17-26
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• 2020

인삼은 예로부터 연명(延命)의 약물로 분류된 상약(上藥)의 하나로 자리를 잡고 지닌 약성에 따라 만병통치약으로 사용되었으며, 특수계급만을 대상으로 하였던 인삼 수요가 다른 계층으로 확대되면서 그 수요가 급증하게 되었다. 이에 따라 무분별한 채취로 멸절(滅絶)되어 채취하기가 어렵게 되어 자연산 인삼으로는 공급의 한계에 이르게 되자, 인삼 공급 방법은 힘든 자연산 인삼의 채취보다는 가성비 높은 가삼 재배 쪽으로 이동하게 되었다. 인삼종주국인 우리나라의 가삼 재배 시기에 관해서는 연구가 이루어지고 있으나, 첫 재배지에 관한 연구는 아직 보고되지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가삼 재배 관련 자료의 정리를 통하여 우리나라 최초의 가삼 재배지에 관한 정리와 고찰을 하였으며, 여기에 인용된 사료는 조선왕조실록, 임원십육지, 오주연문장전산고, 중경지, 증보문헌비고, 인삼사 등이다. 정리와 고찰의 결과, 조선 시대 최초의 가삼 재배지는 영남지역으로 특히, 풍기면(현재의 경북 영주시 풍기읍)으로 추측된다.