Cha Sangchan’s Daily Writing, Writing Education in Daehan Empire Era

Cha Sangchan’s manuscript, Daily Writing is the assignment of a middle school class, displaying writing education in Daehan Empire. In it, total 22 compositions are contained, including exam questions and evaluation grades for them. Its style is generally similar to Literary Sinitic sentences and Confucian lessons are proposed for issues of composition. However its writing class is respective curriculum from Classical Chinese and some of its composition represent enlightenment idea, aiming modern state and national language, similar to the articles of Sin Chaeho and Jang Jiyeon different from Classical Chinese writing in Joseon Dynasty. Also, the lecturer of Daily Writing presents a subject asking the difference between Classical Chinese class and other academic disciplines such as economics and politics since all textbooks are written in literary Sinitic. The lecturer of Cha Sangchan seems recognizing transitional period in that he highly evaluates Cha’s composition insisting enlightenment ideas. Literary Sinitic is still demanded for understanding sciences rooted from Western World in Daehan Empire middle school. Meanwhile, Korean-Chinese writing becomes the subject for an entrance exam of normal school instead of Literary Sinitic writing in Joseon Dynasty civil service exam and Choi Jaehak publishes Textbook for Practical Korean-Chinese Writing to achieve the enhancement of Korean national language.