我国红苕栽培始于十六世纪末期,已有近三百八十年的历史,这个期间先后从菲律宾和越南等地引进了红苕品种。据十七世纪二十年代古农书记载,我国劳动人民在实践中根据红苕退化现象,创造了选优留种的经验。我国红苕的有性杂交育种工作始于二十世纪三十年代前期,由于反动政权根本不重视生产和科研工作,当时 Red Clover cultivation in China began in the late sixteenth century, nearly three hundred and eighty years of history, this period successively from the Philippines and Vietnam introduced red crab varieties. According to the ancient agricultural books of the 1920s, our working people, in practice, created the experience of choosing the best and retaining the superior species according to the phenomenon of red deer degradation. The sexual crossbreeding work in our country is started in the early 1930s. Since the reactionary regime did not attach importance to production and scientific research at that time