Chen Chengzhong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in December 1950 in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. Representative bearer of scented tea processing craftsmanship (the scenting process of Fuzhou jasmine tea), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A technician of the Fuzhou jasmine tea scenting process. He inherited from his father Chen Biwu the craft of preparing the tea base and the hand-scenting process for jasmine tea, and also studied the Fuzhou jasmine tea scenting process and finished-product inspection under Wang Luoluo and Lin Yixi. Years of practice have given him a distinctive set of skills: the rough tea is refined by hand into a tea base (tang, ta, bo) and then scented through seven traditional processes including scenting, turning, lifting and drying (yin, tong, qi, hong). He was engaged by the China Tea Marketing Association as a designated scenting instructor. He has taken on four apprentices: Chen Zheng, Zheng Gongyu, Chen Chengti and Zhang Zeyu.
Honors & Recognition
As one of the principal makers of Jasmine Minhao and Jasmine Foreign Affairs Silver Hao at the Fuzhou Tea Factory, he won the gold award for quality in the Second and Third National High-Quality Jasmine Tea Competitions held by the China Tea Marketing Association in two consecutive years.
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