Confucianism was a national ideology during the Chosun Dynasty in Korea, and the Korean people used liquor for a variety of ceremonies to exercise Confucian doctrines in their daily life. Liquor, also, played an important role as a medicine.
Ironically, however, the drinking of liquor was limited...
Confucianism was a national ideology during the Chosun Dynasty in Korea, and the Korean people used liquor for a variety of ceremonies to exercise Confucian doctrines in their daily life. Liquor, also, played an important role as a medicine.
Ironically, however, the drinking of liquor was limited through the liquor prohibition law, even though it was widely used in people’s daily life. During the Choseon period, ‘Three Prohibition Law’ was implemented, which banned heavy drinking, slaughtering cows, and logging pine trees without permission.
Since liquor, made from rice, was closely correlated with social and economic issues, the government needed to control the liquor on a national level to maintain social and economic stability.
Based on social changes, Chosun’s liquor prohibition law was legitimated by a selection of codes, beginning with Kyeongkukdaejeon, the first code of Chosun, up to and including Yukjeonjorae, a code published in the period of the last emperor.
In the begging of the Chosun era, the major reason for the liquor prohibition law was mainly related to natural disaster while in the latter period of the era, to prevent the wasting of grains for bad years. This change was because, regardless of, people still brewed wine and sold it, illegally. So the government needed tougher controls to stabilize the price of grains.
In addition, after Youngjo era (1724-1776), there were somewhat different reasons for the legislation of the law. After the era, people tended to waste grains more than ever to produce higher quality liquor with best ingredients and advanced technology. The upper class also enjoyed benefits from the trade of liquor with a number of liquor markets formed, which led grains to be commercialized, and allowed more people to seek profits from the grains.
Therefore, the government needed more powerful policies to stabilize the price of grains. In particular, the boom of forming liquor markets forced the law to be more severe.
The law was exercised so instantly and fluidly that the ruling class could easily abuse it, and it resulted in a lot of corruption. That is, the law was only applied to the public, not to the upper class. As a result, the liquor prohibition law remained a cause of the public’s suffering while the ruling class reaped all the benefits.
Confucianism was a national ideology during the Chosun Dynasty in Korea, and the Korean people used liquor for a variety of ceremonies to exercise Confucian doctrines in their daily life. Liquor, also, played an important role as a medicine.
Ironically, however, the drinking of liquor was limited through the liquor prohibition law, even though it was widely used in people’s daily life. During the Choseon period, ‘Three Prohibition Law’ was implemented, which banned heavy drinking, slaughtering cows, and logging pine trees without permission.
Since liquor, made from rice, was closely correlated with social and economic issues, the government needed to control the liquor on a national level to maintain social and economic stability.
Based on social changes, Chosun’s liquor prohibition law was legitimated by a selection of codes, beginning with Kyeongkukdaejeon, the first code of Chosun, up to and including Yukjeonjorae, a code published in the period of the last emperor.
In the begging of the Chosun era, the major reason for the liquor prohibition law was mainly related to natural disaster while in the latter period of the era, to prevent the wasting of grains for bad years. This change was because, regardless of, people still brewed wine and sold it, illegally. So the government needed tougher controls to stabilize the price of grains.
In addition, after Youngjo era (1724-1776), there were somewhat different reasons for the legislation of the law. After the era, people tended to waste grains more than ever to produce higher quality liquor with best ingredients and advanced technology. The upper class also enjoyed benefits from the trade of liquor with a number of liquor markets formed, which led grains to be commercialized, and allowed more people to seek profits from the grains.
Therefore, the government needed more powerful policies to stabilize the price of grains. In particular, the boom of forming liquor markets forced the law to be more severe.
The law was exercised so instantly and fluidly that the ruling class could easily abuse it, and it resulted in a lot of corruption. That is, the law was only applied to the public, not to the upper class. As a result, the liquor prohibition law remained a cause of the public’s suffering while the ruling class reaped all the benefits.
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