There are many prejudices in the study of tea culture during Mongolia's reign over China. The prejudiced view of nomadic domination is representative. This perspective also influenced tea culture research. Most of the assessments are that there was no development in tea culture and history at this time. They said this period is merely a transitional period. And they excluded the element of development.
However, the Yuan Dynasty established a specific tea making method and tea drinking method. These are how to make tea with the process of rubbing tea leaves and how to drink them using tea leaves. This is distinct from the previous and later periods of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
The tea culture of the Yuan Dynasty was by no means a period of development or transition. At that time, the making powdered tea declined and the boiling leaf tea were established as a new mainstream method. It was an era in which tea manufacturing methods with a process of rubbing leaves were settled, and leaf tea-centered consumption was achieved. Only after going through the tea-boiling method and manufacturing method of the Yuan Dynasty era could be the method of making tea soaked in water in the next era possible. It can be seen that the atmosphere that values the acceptance and convergence of various cultures and practicality and technology of the Yuan Dynasty also contributed to the development of tea culture.