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Characteristics of the Tea Culture Depicted In the Eighteenth Century's Joseon Dynasty Paintings

This study analyzed the characteristics of tea culture depicted in the Eighteenth century's Joseon paintings. A total of 40 paintings drawn by 13 painters in the late Joseon dynasty were used. The results of this study were as follows. First, a young boy called Dadong with hair in two topknots was mostly in charge of preparing tea in front of the tea stove. Second, the space for tea culture was located mainly outdoors, such as a mountain and valleys, a private garden, and a thatched cottage. The space performed functions for male-centered literary activities, elegant accomplishments, and retirement to hermitage in nature. Third, tea stoves set outdoors among tea utensils were depicted the most in the paintings. Tea kettles without handles were used mainly in the early Eighteenth century, whereas those with handles behind and with swing handles were used in the late Eighteenth century. Fourth, the method for brewing tea originally consisted of using a teakettle and a teapot separately. On the other hand, no teapot was depicted in contrast to a number of tea kettles shown. This indicates that in that age, how to drink tea was not the way to brew leaf tea but the way to boil cake tea.