On this day, 125 years ago, on March 10, 1900 (February 10, 1900 in the lunar calendar), Feng Shaoqiu, the founder of Dianhong, was born. Feng Shaoqiu is a tea scientist, tea making and review expert. The founder of Dianhong. Pioneering work has been done in creating Dianhong and improving the quality of Ninghong, Qihong, Huhong and Anhua brick teas; and has made contributions to changing the tradition of handmade tea making and promoting mechanical processing. He is one of the founders of mechanical tea making in China. The creation of Gongfu black tea lifting blending and primary and fine sorting process has significantly improved the quality and efficiency of tea making. Feng Shaoqiu, the word Yi Qun. Born on March 10, 1900 in Xidu Township, Hengyang County, Hunan Province. He left home at the age of 12 and went out to study. He graduated from Baoding Agricultural College in Hebei Province in the summer of 1923. In the spring of 1924, he was introduced to teach at the institute by Li Houhui, a classmate of the Agricultural College and director of the Anhua Tea Training Institute. From then on, he embarked on the road of tea work. From 1924 to 1932, Feng Shaoqiu successively taught at Hunan Anhua Tea Institute and Changsha Advanced Agricultural School. At the beginning, Feng Shaoqiu knew that he did not have a deep knowledge of tea and had no actual production experience, so he secretly made up his mind to learn from Fang Hanzhou, the then director of the tea department, and Liang Xiguang, the technician. Under their guidance, he taught and practiced, and gradually became familiar with tea planting techniques, laying a solid foundation for future work. In 1933, he was recommended by Fang Hanzhou to Xiushui, Jiangxi Province. He worked as a technician at the Xiushui Experimental Tea Farm jointly organized by the Agricultural Experimental Institute of the Central Government and the Shanghai and Han Commodity Inspection Bureaus at that time, and engaged in quality improvement experiments on primary refining of Ninghong tea. The next year, according to a sample of Lipton black tea, orange-yellow-white chopped tea (B.O. P) was trial-produced. Its color, aroma and taste were comparable to Lipton black tea in quality. In 1935, introduced by Wu Juenong of the Tea Inspection Group of Shanghai Commodity Inspection Bureau, he was responsible for tea grading experiments at the Agricultural Department of the former Central Economic Commission in Nanjing. He divided black tea into 1~5 grades according to the tenderness, thickness and flavor of tea leaves, and identified 5 physical samples. This is the first set of physical standard samples of black tea formulated by our country. From 1936 to 1937, Feng Shaoqiu was transferred to Qimen Tea Improvement Plant as a technician and engaged in mechanical processing experiments of Qimen black tea. With his efforts, the trial-production of Qihong was successfully used to use a dryer imported from Japan and a small kneading machine imported from Germany, thus changing the backward processing method of Qihong's feet and sun exposure and the habit of not picking summer tea in Qihong tea area., greatly improving the output and efficiency of Qihong. In 1938, at the invitation of Wu Juenong, Feng Shaoqiu went to Enshi, Hubei Province to build an Enshi Tea Factory. From 1939 to 1942, he went to Yunnan to create Dianhong and established Shunning Tea Factory (now Fengqing Tea Factory). From 1943 to 1945, he was transferred from Yunnan to Anhua, Hunan Province to sell brick tea to the Soviet Union (to the Soviet Union). From 1949 to 1954, Feng Shaoqiu successively served as deputy general manager and chief technician of Zhongnan District Tea Company, and concurrently served as director of Hankou Tea Factory. In 1954, the districts and provinces merged, and Feng Shaoqiu was appointed as the chief technician of Hubei Province Tea Company. Under his guidance and efforts, Hubei black tea has initially achieved preliminary refining and semi-mechanized production, formulated technical standards for tea picking, established standard samples for tea processing and export, and expanded the black tea production base and export volume. In 1958, the trial-production of red crushed tea at Banjiao Tea Factory was successful. The product was exported to the former Soviet Union and won praise from experts. In order to improve the quality of tea, he also conducted heated withering experiments, trial-producing automatic heated withering machines, Enshi "Type 58" black tea primary machine, and tea factory tea machine joint assembly and flowing water blending experiments, laying the foundation for my country's tea processing. Feng Shaoqiu is not only good at black tea processing, but also has deep attainments in Gongfu black tea. He is also very proficient in tea review and has always been known as "Feng Nizi" in the tea industry. As early as 1955, when he was working in Dengcun, Yichang, Hubei Province, he relied on his nose and smell to pick out bags of high-scented black tea with clear orchid flowers in the warehouse, tie them on them, and transport them to Yidu Tea Factory. They were processed individually and individually processed into boxes and exported separately, which was well received by Soviet tea masters at that time. Feng Shaoqiu was elected as the People's Representative of Hubei Province in 1949. He died of illness in 1987 at the age of 87. Comment: Made important contributions to improving tea art in China