Chinese tea was, first, transferred from Tang dynasty to the SinRa in 670,(A.D) while the latter was reigned by the queen SunDuk.
For about two hunderd years, it barely keeps on to descend by training monks. Then, the seed of tea was officially impor...
Chinese tea was, first, transferred from Tang dynasty to the SinRa in 670,(A.D) while the latter was reigned by the queen SunDuk.
For about two hunderd years, it barely keeps on to descend by training monks. Then, the seed of tea was officially imported from Tang dynasty by the DaiRyum who had been there for official greeting.
There was not any difficulty in transmitting the seed from Tang dynasty whose foreign policy was generous in those days. It is assumed that the GooRae temple was the first culure plot in the age of the king HeungDuk
The tea was not popularize since it was favored only by nobles and monks in the age of the SinRa and the early age of the Korea dynasty.
Even the ruling class of Yi-dynasty neglected to drink tea on account of its anti-buddhistic movement.
The tea was barely keep on used by men of refined taste such as Chung Da-San and ChoEui monk.
There are two kinds of tea among Koreanized tea; the one is the solid Dan tea and the other one is the leaf tea.
The wild tea is growing now at one part of KyungNam province and all over the area of JeonNam province. But it is hard to find the wild tea in JeonBuk province where we are imformed that the tea was cultured.
The possibility of systematic tea culture has a good prospect, if the one of good quality aomng teas which are growing now around temples in Mt. JiRi could be cultared.