This period of the Joseon Lee Dynasty period, the first fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by the influence of the Ming Dynasty tea culture, tea drinking style is quite prevalent, loose teapot brewing method and handful of brewing method is popular in North Korea. Began in the Silla unification, the rise of the Korean tea ceremony in the Goryeo period, with the development of tea ceremony apparatus and technology, the form of tea ceremony was fixed, more complete. After the middle of the Joseon Dynasty, the prevalence of alcohol, and suitable for the Qing invasion, resulting in a decline in tea culture. To the late Joseon Dynasty, fortunately, Ding Ruoyong, Cui Yi, Kim Jung-hee, Kusakari masters and other enthusiastic maintenance, tea culture gradually seen to recover. 4XD Tea Net
Ding Ruoyong (A.D. 1762-1836), No. Chashan, a famous scholar, tea is highly respected. Wrote the East tea book, is the first Korean tea book, unfortunately has been scattered. Kim Jung-hee (1786-1856 A.D.) was a philosopher at the same time as Ding Ruoyong, and was personally guided by Weng Fanggang and Ruan Yuan, the great masters of Qing Dynasty koan science. His jinshi and calligraphy also reached a very high level, has a profound knowledge of Zen and Buddhism, there are many tea poems have been passed down to the world, such as the “stay in the grass clothes Zen master” poem: “before the eyes of the white ate zhao zhou vegetables, hand firmly flicked burning Zhihua. Drinking after the ear door soft a gradual, spring breeze where not mountain home” grass clothes Zen master (1786-1866), had studied under Ding Ruoyong, through 40 years of tea life, comprehended the Zen subtleties and the spirit of the tea ceremony, authored the “East Tea Ode” and the “Tea God Biography”, became a great summing up the spirit of the North Korean tea ceremony, honored as the tea saints, Ding Ruoyong’s “East Tea” and the grass clothes Zen master’s “East Tea” and “East Tea Ode” is the most important tea ceremony in North Korea. Dongchaji (Ode to the East Tea) is the result of the revival of the Joseon tea ceremony. 4XD Tea Net
In Sejongsillok (1454 AD), it is recorded that 6 places in Gyeongsang-do and 28 places in Jeolla-do produced tea, and in Donggukyeojisangsangseon (1530 AD), it is recorded that 10 places in Gyeongsang-do and 35 places in Jeolla-do produced tea, and that 3 places in Gyeongsang-do and 18 places in Jeolla-do produced tribute tea. In the second year of King Gojong’s reign (1885 AD), Chinese tea was imported across the sea on a large scale for the second time. During the Joseon Dynasty, tea was produced throughout the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. 4XD Tea Net
During the Lee Dynasty of Joseon, the Chinese tea ceremony was introduced and adopted by the tea ceremony. However, the method of decocting tea and ordering tea coexisted at the same time. After absorbing and digesting the Chinese tea culture, the tea culture of Joseon entered a period of stable development, and after the folk tea-drinking custom went into decline, instead, the tea spirit developed to a peak period. The tea culture of the DPRK is in decline and revival. 4XD Tea Net
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