Mythology is considered to be a sacred thing that should be revered even today as a cultural heritage that reflects the ideology and religion of our ancestors. Moreover, the mythology is providing the norms related to politeness and courteousness of today, moral values, social orders and the past form of incantational religion, as it describes original ancient times which are still alive even in our modern lives, and bring the justification based on the precedence.
Yook Woo mentioned in his Dagyeong that drinking tea started from Sin Nong. It should be recognized that Sin Nong who appears in the origin of tea was formed in the mythology, culture and its association with the ideology, not Sing Nong in its simple sense. Future studies to systemize tea into a study should take the research on the Sin Nong mythology as the No. 1 priority. This study looks at the formation and the course of development of Sin Nong mythology that has been know to us until now, and highlight the awareness about Sin Nong.