我们湖南省茶叶学会,是省农学会的一个分科学会,是省科协的一个组成部分,是在党的领导下的一个群众性学术团体。开始筹备于一九五六年秋,筹委会的主任委员是革命老人杨开智同志。正式成立于一九五七年春,当时的会员仅32人,从学会成立起至一九六六年的夏止,先后发展会员达157人, We, Hunan Tea Society, is a sub-society of the Provincial Agricultural Association, an integral part of the Provincial Association of Science and Technology, and a mass academic body under the leadership of the party. Preparations began in the autumn of 1956, and the chairman of the Preparatory Committee was Comrade Yang Kai-chih, a revolutionary old man. Formally established in the spring of 1957, when only 32 members, from the founding of the Society until 1966 in the summer only, has developed a membership of 157 people,