홍대용의 1765-1766년도 북경여행기(을병연행록)에 서술된 이씨조선과 청나라의 음식 및 선물 문화

Food and gifts related aspects of the cultures in the Yi and Qing Dynast as described by Dae-Yong Hong in the beijing travel diary (Eulbyeong Yeonhangrok) during the years 1765-1766

Some food and gifts related aspects of the cultures of Korea and China are summarized as follows by Dae-Yong Hong in his travel diary (Eulbyeong Yeonhangrok) to Beijing in the winter of 1765 to the spring of 1766. The Yi-Dynasty envoys brought rice, porridge, noodles, roasted soy paste, vegetables, fruits and tea (as foods, snacks or dessert), and Yakgwa, cake, flounder, sea cucumber, abalone, Jeonyak and beef jerky (as a snack or gift). In addition to the food items, the envoys also took to Beijing Cheongsimhwan, Sohapwon, fan, ink stick, paper, poem and tobacco as gifts. Despite the cold winter, the Qing government supplied the envoys with many different foods and in sufficient quantities to suggest that the political and economic situation in China was stable and good. Chinese friends invited to sample delicious dishes such as cooked rice, Yeolgujatang, Saoyuan, Adlay (Coix lacryma-jobi), fish soup, meat dishes, vegetables, bamboo shoots, alcohol, cinnamon-flower tea and others. They also gave him tea, pictures, a collection of poems, a pouch, silk handkerchief, fan and flint. The kind, polite and warm-hearted atmosphere between the Yi-Dynasty envoys and their Chinese friends during the meetings, conversations and discussions, as well as the exchange of gifts were impressive and made them miss each other after they had left.