Since primitive ages the Korean people have cultivated soybean and made various foods with it. Bean curd is one of them.
Bean curd is made by obtaining liquid by sieving ground soybean soaked in water and then curdling it with brine.
“Mogunjip”, a historical record in the period of Koryo (918-1392), and other books carry poems on bean curd and articles on bean curd and noodles being made at Buddhist temples and sold to people. This shows that bean curd occupied an important place in the people’s dietary life and was a favoured food in the period.
The experience and custom of bean-curd making during the days of Koryo were inherited in the period of the feudal Joson dynasty (1392-1910). In this period various kinds of bean curd were made and spread to a neighbouring country. In general, brine was used as the coagulant for making bean curd, but the people living on seashore areas sometimes used sea water.
Methods of making bean curd are introduced in “Rimwonsipryukji” and other historical records in the period of the feudal Joson dynasty.
There were over ten kinds of bean curd—uncurdled, coarse, soft, cubed and frozen.
The kinds of foods containing bean curd reached more than dozens—uncurdled bean curd soup, bean curd stew, pork and bean curd soup, bean curd casserole, steamed bean curd, fried bean curd, bean paste and bean curd ragout and bean curd ball.
The custom of making bean curd is still carried on.
Bean curd making was inscribed on the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2018.
Kim Ji Won, section chief at the Folklore Institute
of the Academy of Social Sciences
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