茶叶是我国历史悠久、驰名中外的特产。茶树的栽培大约始于汉代,唐宋年代,我国茶叶生产已达到相当规模,明清时期得到进一步发展。但我国茶叶的加工,在鸦片战争以前,还一直停留在传统的手工业基础上。直到光绪后期,中国才出现近代机器加工制茶。1896年(光绪二十二年)福州商人创办的造茶公司,是为中国最早的机器制茶业。 Tea is a long history of our country, famous specialty. Tea cultivation began about the Han Dynasty, Tang and Song dynasties, China’s tea production has reached a considerable scale, the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been further developed. However, the processing of tea in our country still stayed on the basis of traditional handicrafts until the Opium War. Until the late Guangxu, China appeared modern machine-made tea. 1896 (Guangxu twenty-two years) Fuzhou businessmen founded tea company, is China’s first machine tea industry.