Some time ago, Weibo had a hot search topic, that is, some South Korean netizens said that Jiang Shuying was a transliteration of the Korean name Jiang Suying, and brain-openingly claimed that she was a descendant of the Korean nation who was caught in the Qing Dynasty in the Joseon Dynasty.
In response to this farce of stealing blood, Jiang Shuying only posted a poem on the social platform "Shuying horizontal oblique water is shallow, dark incense floating moon dusk", suggesting that his name is actually taken from a poem of the Song Dynasty and has nothing to do with South Korea.
In fact, South Korea has done this more than once, for example, there have been Korean historians who said that Confucius was born in South Korea, and that koreans first invented Chinese characters and wanted to apply for Chinese characters.
If you go on like this, even if you drink tea one day, suddenly a Korean tea friend says that tea originates from South Korea...
In fact, how Korean tea originated and developed is clearly recorded in the history books.
As early as the Silla era, Silla sent a large number of monks to China to study in order to seek Buddhism, and they were exposed to tea drinking during the Tang Dynasty, and brought tea leaves and tea seeds back to Silla when they returned to China.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Silla Benji, and the Third Year of King Xingde (828) contains: In the winter of December, an envoy was sent to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Wenzong summoned the geographical (also known as Zhiyi) Mountain. Tea has been flourishing since the King of Virtue. ”
King Sundeok reigned from 632 to 647 AD (equivalent to the sixth to twenty-first years of The Reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang in China), that is, tea was introduced to Korea in the early Tang Dynasty or before.
It is also recorded in the Korean history book "Dongguo Tongjian": "When King Silla Xingde was king, he sent the Tang ambassador Kim and Mongtang Wenzong to give tea seeds, which were first planted in the Zhiyi Mountain of Jinluo Province."
The historical sources here clearly point out that Silla introduced tea seeds from China during the Tang Dynasty and began to cultivate them.
Although the cultivation of tea trees had already begun at the time of king Silla Xingde, it was limited by the level of production, so the tea produced at that time was not of high quality and the taste was very bitter. Therefore, from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the high society at that time still liked tea from China.
For example, in the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1124), when Xu Jing was ordered to goryeo, he wrote: "Native tea, bitter taste can not be ingested, but the noble Chinese lacha and dragon and phoenix give the group." In addition to The Xi Dynasty, merchants also traded. Therefore, I like to drink tea. Yizhi tea sets, golden flower wudian, emerald xiao ou, silver stove tangding, all steal the Chinese system.
The lacha and dragon and phoenix tea mentioned here are both end teas that need to be crushed into powder and then tasted, which shows that the Song Dynasty's tea ordering method has also spread to North Korea.
In addition, the golden flower black cup (black glazed tea cup) and the emerald xiao ou (celadon tea cup) mentioned in it are representative utensils for tea ordering in the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that the tea brewing method and tea set in the Korean period are basically imitated in China.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the leaf tea brewing method began to be popular in China, and this method was also introduced to North Korea. At the end of the Goryeo Dynasty, Li Yong's poetry collection "Mu Yin Ji" contains poems such as "Sencha Is the Matter" and "Xiao Yong After Tea", the latter of which has the verse "The small bottle is cooked by the broken bell of the spring, and the dew ear is quiet", which should be the meaning of putting the tea leaves into the pot and boiling.
In the Korean "Records of the Lee Dynasty" in the second year of Emperor Taizong (1402), the may of May records that tea was given to the Ming Dynasty envoys, and the tea given was "Que Tongue Tea", which has always been the title of one bud and two leaves of bud tea, which shows that leaf tea has occupied the mainstream at that time.
The transformation from matcha to sencha can be said to reflect the change in china's tea drinking customs from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.
It was also during this period that North Korea formed a set of tea party systems with standardized procedures, called tea ceremonies, such as when receiving Ming envoys, they paid great attention to tea ceremonies, from holding bottles, making tea, respecting tea to drinking tea, there are certain norms.
With the completion of tea ceremony utensils and the development of tea brewing techniques, tea ceremonies have become more and more standardized, and gradually evolved into tea ceremonies.
The Korean tea ceremony is the most influenced by Confucianism, with the purpose of "harmony, respect, frugality, and truth", that is, to have good intentions, to respect each other, to be frugal is not to be luxurious, and to be true is to treat each other with sincerity. There are many kinds of Korean tea ceremonies with their own characteristics, including the reception ceremony, the Buddhist tea ceremony, the gentleman's tea ceremony, the boudoir tea ceremony and many other forms.
Therefore, Korean tea and tea ceremony, like Japan, originated in China.
References: 1. "The First Tasting of Green Tea on the Illustrated Edition", edited by Wang Yuefei and Zhou Jihong, Tourism Education Publishing House, June 2016, 1st Edition; 2. "A Brief History of Korean Tea Culture", Chen Wenhua, Agricultural Archaeology.