Professor Chen Xun, a world-famous tea expert and known as the "first generation tea sect" in China, died in Hefei, Anhui Province on 19991October 23rd at the age of 92.
For more than 60 years, Professor Xie Chen has added a glorious page to the history of tea industry in China and even the world by writing books and training talents to develop the scientific cause of tea industry, improve the production level of tea industry. His kind, easy-going and approachable attitude always leaves a deep impression on people.
Seeking truth from facts is the only way to cultivate English.
Professor Chen Xun 1908 was born in Hui 'an, Fujian on March 8th. /kloc-0 studied in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of Peking University Agricultural College in September, 1930, and graduated in July, 1934. 1952 transferred from Fudan University to Agricultural College of Anhui University, where he served as the director and associate professor of tea science. 1954 Anhui agricultural college was established independently, and has served as president, professor, deputy director of academic Committee and member of academic Committee of provincial higher education. 1946, he joined the Chinese peasant party. 1950 became party member of China Agricultural Workers' Democratic Party, member and secretary of the branch organization, and member of the Standing Committee of the Second Committee of Provincial Agricultural Workers' Democratic Party. Since 1952, he has served as the first and third members of CPPCC, the fourth, fifth and sixth standing committee members, the member of China Agricultural Society, the member of Anhui Agricultural Science Research Association, the executive director and consultant of Anhui Agricultural Society, the executive director and consultant of China Tea Society, the chairman and consultant of Anhui Tea Society, and the honorary chairman and standing committee member of Anhui Science and Technology Association.
Professor Chen Xun has been engaged in tea education for 60 years, and has been adhering to the scientific attitude of "evidence-based, convincing". He has made unremitting efforts to write books and cultivate talents, and has achieved fruitful results in tea research, and is known as "a generation of tea scholars". While encouraging and teaching students to study hard, he pays special attention to students' ideological education. He has always been as concerned about students' learning and growth as his father, and has been loved and respected by students.
Professor Chen Xun, who has been engaged in higher tea education for a long time, is the founder of tea-making discipline in China. As early as when I taught at Yingshi University and Fudan University in Zhejiang, I worked hard to establish a tea education system. After the founding of New China, his work enthusiasm was even higher. Since the 1950s, he has been paying attention to the construction and development of the discipline of tea science, and has done a lot of work in the specialty setting of tea science, the formulation and improvement of teaching plans, and has his own unique views. He personally formulated the syllabus, curriculum and the construction of production practice base, and did a lot of hard and meticulous work for the normalization of tea teaching and scientific research. 1978, he suggested and participated in the establishment of the first mechanical tea specialty in China in the Tea Department of Anhui Agricultural College. He often goes deep into the grass-roots investigation and research, combines his own practical experience in education and scientific research, and constantly compiles and enriches teaching materials to improve teaching quality. He is knowledgeable and has trained a batch of agricultural high-tech talents for the country. His students are all over the country, and many of them have become the backbone of China's tea industry, education, agricultural production, enterprises and management departments. He devoted all his energy after graduation to the cause of tea education. Until his death, he still cared about and guided the reform and development of tea education.
Concentrate on work, etc.
Professor Chen Xun is broad-minded, quick-thinking, and devoted to writing and writing all his life. As early as 1940s, when she was teaching at Zhejiang Yingshi University, she compiled the first systematic teaching material of higher tea science in China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was hired to teach at Fudan University, and successively compiled four teaching materials: Tea Manufacturing, Tea Management, Tea Inspection and Tea Tree Cultivation. After 1949, he edited teaching materials such as Tea Making and Tea Inspection for four times in agricultural colleges, and published monographs such as Tea Tree Cultivation Techniques, Anhui Tea Classic and Fried Green Tea. Even during the Cultural Revolution, he never stopped writing and wrote The Complete Book of Tea Making. 1977, on his deathbed, he worked day and night, wrote the first monograph on tea history at home and abroad, including General History of Tea Industry, History of Tea Trade in China, Tea Medicine, etc., and presented gifts to the National Science Conference, expressing an intellectual's sincere heart to the party and the people. Later, he compiled nearly 40 books, including Tea-making Technology, Selected Studies on Famous Tea in China, Tea Merchandise, Tea Management, Tea Pharmacy, Tea Marketing, Tea Trade and Tea Economics, covering tea-making science, tea cultivation science and tea inspection science.
Professor Xie Chen devoted his life to the study of tea science, which promoted the development of tea science and tea production. He has published nearly 200 research papers in various fields, some of which have been translated into English, French and Japanese and published in international academic journals. It has aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad and has far-reaching significance. In the published papers, it is proved that Yunnan, China is the origin of tea trees, the scientific classification of tea trees is established, the theory of tea discoloration is put forward, the cultivation techniques of tea trees are discussed, the tea inspection theory is studied, the history of tea industry development and tea culture in China is studied, and the tea industry economy in China is discussed. According to the tea production situation in China in various periods, the changes and existing problems in the international market, the solutions are put forward. He first advocated the development of famous tea. At the age of 80, he still went deep into tea areas to guide tea farmers, restore and create famous tea, and traveled all over the major tea areas in China, making outstanding contributions to promoting the scientific and technological progress of tea in China.
Professor Chen Xun is not only a respected scholar, but also a social activist who is enthusiastic about public welfare. One of the founders of China Tea Society and Anhui Tea Society. He has done a lot of useful work in tea academic activities, popular science work and international academic exchanges, and won wide praise and high praise from the tea industry at home and abroad.
Dedicate one's life to history
For more than half a century, Professor Xie Chen has been devoted to revitalizing the tea industry in China. He has been rated as an advanced worker, an advanced educator and an excellent teacher for many times and won the Outstanding Educational Achievement Award. 1990 was awarded the Golden Horse Award by the State Education Commission. His name and achievements have been recorded in nearly 20 biographies at home and abroad, such as Who's Who in the World of Agricultural Scientists in Britain, World Scientists (Asia Volume), Indian Who's Who in the World, Biography of China Science and Technology Experts, Directory of China Contemporary Agricultural Science and Technology Experts, Award Ceremony of Contemporary China Science and Technology Celebrity Achievement Award, China Dictionary of Contemporary Senior Professional and Technical Talents, and China Agricultural Encyclopedia.
Tea culture is a beautiful traditional culture. Professor Xie Chen often encourages junior students to introduce books, notes and systematic expositions about the development of tea culture to scholars all over the world, and dares to criticize the incorrect comments of scholars from all over the world and at home, and then announces the scientific and convincing achievements recently studied by scholars on both sides of the strait to the outside world, so that scholars at home and abroad can take it orally. He said: "Anyone who practices a hundred schools of thought should be evenly matched, with a real knife and a real gun, and the road name refers to the surname and is straightforward. Unity is unity on the principle of criticizing evil and advocating goodness. Some people attach importance to the principle of emotional light, hiding evil and promoting good; Some people, afraid of exposure, use unity as a shield. In fact, these two kinds of people are despised. This passage reveals Professor Chen Xun's rigorous academic attitude and realistic character. Professor Chen Xun's life is a life of opening up tea gardens, writing books, teaching and educating people. His death is a great loss to the tea industry in China. Although the philosopher has passed away, it is typical of the past. While remembering Professor Chen Xun, we should uphold his fearless spirit of pursuing truth and "traveling thousands of miles" and make contributions to the tea industry.
Engaged in tea education for 60 years, has been adhering to the scientific attitude of "evidence, words count". He made unremitting efforts to write books and cultivate talents, and achieved fruitful results in tea research. He is known as "a generation of tea people"