1970Guangdong
A tea house of his own
He opens the Yongfeng Tea House in his native Guangdong. A life in tea begins.
陈升河Our founder
Fifty Years in Tea
Shenghe Chen learned tea the old way: at his father’s side. He has spent more than fifty years in the craft — long enough that his peers in the Guangdong tea world gave him a nickname he still wears with pride: the “tea obsessive.”
China Tea-Making MasterFounder & chairman50+ years in tea
A Life in Tea
茶路1985Shenzhen
Research and trade
He founds a tea company in Shenzhen devoted to tea research and trade, and builds his name across the Cantonese tea world.
2006Southern Yunnan
The road to Yunnan
Invited to survey China’s tea regions, he spends nearly two months driving the mountain roads of southern Yunnan. Among the old-arbor forests he finds what he has been looking for — and buys land in Menghai, Xishuangbanna.
2007Menghai
A brand that carries his name
He founds his tea factory in Menghai and names it after himself: Chen Sheng Hao. His name goes on every cake — and so does his reputation.
2008Lao Ban Zhang
A new way of working
He creates our “company + base + farmers” model and signs a 30-year partnership with Lao Ban Zhang village, building a processing base in the village itself. See the partnership in photographs.
2011Lao Ban Zhang
Research, rooted in the village
He chairs the newly founded Xishuangbanna Lao Ban Zhang Tea Research Association, bringing tea scientists to work alongside the growers. The same year, the villagers honor him with the Hani thread-tying blessing — their highest rite.
2021National title
China Tea-Making Master
He is named a China Tea-Making Master — a national title for a lifetime at the wok, the rolling table and the tasting cup.
Today he remains chairman of Menghai Chen Sheng Tea Co., Ltd., and still tastes the blends that carry his name.
China Tea-Making Master中国制茶大师
“I came to tea as a young man, and more than fifty years have passed. Everything I have learned about making tea, I have given to one thing: at the very source of tea, I bought land and built a factory, so that tea lovers everywhere might share in this joy. If that, in some small way, helps carry pu’er forward — it is enough.”
Shenghe Chen, founder
Two generations, one standard
The Second Generation
The successor陈柳滨
Liubin Chen
Liubin Chen grew up with tea — at his father’s side, in the tasting room and on the mountain roads. In 2008 he moved to Menghai to learn the craft where the leaves grow, and made it his second home.
Today, as general manager and a certified tea-processing engineer, he leads the second generation: new bases, modern tea science, and the same rules his father set.
2018 · Father and Son
Lao Ban Zhang Fu Zi Qin
For ten years he blended beside his father. In 2018 he released Lao Ban Zhang Fu Zi Qin — “Father and Son” — his own tribute to that long apprenticeship.
His hope is a simple one: that one day, tea drinkers everywhere will know Chinese tea the way his family does.