Dianhong's modern story is closely tied to Fengqing. The Yunnan Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs says tea expert Feng Shaoqiu came to the county in 1938, selected a one-bud, two-leaf sample and made a black tea that drew notice in Hong Kong. The account says it was later named Dianhong. A museum visit can place this episode among the tools, photographs and factory records that show how a regional product entered broader markets.
From the journal
Inside Fengqing's Dianhong Story
The tea museum's historical frame begins with a 1938 experiment and grows into a craft grounded in local tea leaves and processing.
In the same city · Lincang ↗A tea made in Fengqing
Objects, process and memory
A tea museum is most useful when it lets visitors connect an object to a process: a withering rack to leaf moisture, a roller to shaping, or a photograph to a particular factory and date. Fengqing's Dianhong displays sit within a town where tea remains an industry and a social identity, so the museum is one entry point rather than the whole story.
The 2025 report describes a sequence of objects from stone tools and local material culture to tea specimens, processing equipment and caravan goods. It also records a Marshall rolling machine that remains in use and a workshop where visitors can follow tea from fresh leaf to finished cake. These objects connect museum display with making: the machine is not just a relic behind glass but part of a working demonstration in Fengqing’s tea story.