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Towards the end of the Joseon Dynasty, commoners joined the trend and used tea for ancestral rites.

Mainly Scholars of Silhak, like Jeong Yak-yong, Kim Jeong-hui, had interested about tea " drinking " culture and its production at their exile period on tea forested region.

These people corresponded with monks who still had tea drinking culture.

It started from Silla and Goryeo Dynasty that monks formed and administrated tea forest around the temple and it pass down as their possession.

And buddhist tea ceremony and drinking culture stylized in the traditional temple.

And these two cultural leader group's relationship influenced both Seonbi society and contemporary monks.