Historically, Chinese characters with names that imply the meaning of 'documents' have been steadily created and developed. And Chinese characters, which mean documents, usually began as monosyllables, but over time, they were combined with other monosyllables that had similar meanings. As a result, many derivatives related to documents have emerged. The word ‘Chup(牒)’ that will be covered in this study also started with a single syllable and gave rise to many derivatives such as ‘GongChup(公牒)’, ‘MunChup(文牒)’, "PyeongChup(平牒)’, ‘ChupAn(牒案)’, ‘YiChup(移牒)’, ‘GoChup(故牒)’, ‘BoChup(譜牒)’ and so on. And ‘Chup(牒)’ has a very long history in the Chinese dynasty and was one of the most important documents used in almost all dynasties, and was used historically in Korea from ancient times to the late Joseon Dynasty. In Korea, the term ‘Chup(牒)’ has already been discovered since the Three Kingdoms period in Korea. In addition, the ‘Chup(牒)’ were used for various purposes, and in the Goryeo Dynasty, they became an important type of document. In particular, Goryeo was a medieval dynasty that maintained its relationship with Song(宋), Ryo(遼), Geum(金), Yuan(元), and Ming(明) dynasties in China.
And for relations with these Chinese dynasties, Goryeo was not only used as a diplomatic document to resolve pending diplomatic issues between the two countries through a ‘Chup(牒)’ document, but also as a domestic government office. In this way, ‘Chup(牒)’ was used as a document in a narrow sense, and it also served as a broad document such as books and certificates. Although it has been used in various areas, existing studies focused on specific areas, so there is a limit to the comprehensive and systematic understanding of ‘Chup(牒)’. Therefore, this study attempted to promote a comprehensive systematic understanding of the documents by analyzing the origin and use of ‘Chup(牒)’, and further analyzed how it introduced from China was used in Korea's previous dynasties.

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