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Dasan J eong Yakyong' Tea Culture Life before his Exile

Dasan was a tea artist who enjoyed the tea before his exile. Seeing his poem, drinking tea of Dasan was started from the middle of his teens and he left 23 poems about drinking tea to his forties before his exile to Gangjin. Searching these poems, Dasan tested the taste of tea by boiling it with good well, had so deep knowledges to tea enough to enjoy and taste the color and the scent of tea, and had drinking habit which he liked to enjoy tea even in hot summer from his twenties. If you see poems of Dasan, you can know that tea was not only used as simple tasted food but only as cure for indigestion and diarrhea.