Hundred Flowers era

The Hundred Flowers era (: 百花時代) was a period of Central intellectual thought during the 17th and 18th centuries in Sinju. Movements during this era based many of their ideas off of the emphases on rationality and secularism, but came to reject many of its conclusions. Ideas which became popular during this period included, , , and.

Philosophers widely circulated their ideas through the and met at scientific academics, tea houses, and coffee houses to discuss ideas on a wide variety of subjects. The format, subject, and grading of s heavily changed during this period from scholars influenced by new these new ideas, which were often regarded as heterodox and outlawed.