Hanjijang（韩国造纸/한지장 韩纸大师）

미국 아시아문화 아카데미 예술센터 한인회

Hanjijang 指的是一位技艺精湛的工匠，擅长用桑树 (Broussonetia kazinoki) 的树皮和桑葚糊制作传统纸张 hanji。 制作韩纸需要高超的技巧和丰富的经验。 桑皮要采收、蒸、煮、晒、去皮、再煮、打、拌、滤、干； 据说要经过99道工序才能把纸拿到手，所以最后一道工序也叫百济，意思是“一百张纸”。 韩国韩纸在高丽王朝就非常有名，中国人称其为质量最好的纸高丽纸（字面意思是“高丽纸”）。 中国宋代孙穆在《吉林类事》一书中盛赞高丽纸，称其洁白有光泽，可爱。 朝鲜时代，从太宗时代开始，国家开始监管造纸，设立了称为造纸厂的办公室。 然而到了近代，建筑风格和居住环境的变化以及纸张的输入，导致传统韩纸几近消失。 今天，由于生产成本高，韩纸是用从东南亚进口的纸浆而不是桑皮制成的。 为了让韩纸艺术流传下去，文化遗产厅将韩纸制作指定为重要非物质文化遗产。

Hanjijang (Korean Paper Making/한지장 韓紙匠)

Hanjijang refers to a craftsman skilled in the art of making traditional paper, hanji, from the bark of mulberry (Broussonetia kazinoki) trees and mulberry paste. Making hanji requires great skill and extensive experience. The mulberry bark has to be collected, steamed, boiled, dried, peeled, boiled again, beaten, mixed, strained, and dried; 99 processes are said to be required to get the paper in one’s hands, so the final process was also called baekji, meaning “one hundred paper.” Korean hanji was so famous back in the Goryeo Dynasty that the Chinese called the best-quality paper Goryeoji (literally meaning “Goryeo Paper”). Sun Mu from the Song Dynasty of China lavished Goryeo paper with praises in his book Jilin leishi (Things on Korea), saying that it was white and glossy and lovely. In the Joseon Dynasty, from the time of King Taejong, the state began to oversee paper production, establishing the office called Jojiseo (Paper Manufactory). In modern times, however, the change in architectural styles and housing environment and the import of paper have led to the virtual disappearance of traditional hanji. Today, because of high production costs, hanji is made with pulp imported from Southeast Asia rather than mulberry bark. To keep the art of hanji alive and pass it on to the next generation, the Cultural Heritage Administration has designated hanji making an Important Intangible Cultural Heritage.

미국 아시아문화 아카데미 예술센터 한인회

美国亚洲文化学院艺术中心韩国之友会